Source IAPSO

(b) Inter Agency Procurement Services Office

Excluding IAPSO.

UNOPS procurement office is in the same building with IAPSO in Copenhagen.

IAPSO is outsourcing its training curriculum.

IAPSO, currently the most advanced entity in e procurement, reports that all its procurement functions are carried out using electronic methods and all purchase orders are issued in its UNWebBuy e commerce application.

The Procurement Service has also been working with the Office of Legal Affairs to develop model lease and contract templates to facilitate the work of procurement officials in the peacekeeping missions.

The revised UNOG delegation of procurement authority was completed as of 9 June 2006.

The Procurement Service has also drafted, in consultation with the Office of Human Resources Management and the Office of Legal Affairs, a Declaration of ethical responsibilities .

UNDP Inter Agency Procurement Services Office (IAPSO) already has an advanced e procurement platform.

Benchmarks used include the benchmark prices established by the Inter Agency Procurement Services Office and the consultancy fees being charged.

This state of affairs translates into a sort of identity crisis for IAPSO.

Data from IAPSO procurement statistics (www.iapso.org), updated in most cases by data supplied to JIU for this report.

Similarly, IAPSO remains more a United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) entity than an inter agency procurement facility since it is not used as such by the United Nations procurement system.

The Division formally meets with the Procurement Service each month and with other procurement clients every second month, both for this purpose and to review the status of current matters.

In paragraph 96, the Board indicated that UNODC agreed with the Board's recommendation to strictly comply with provisions of the Procurement Manual.

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The web sites are generally linked to those of other procurement services within the United Nations system as well as to the United Nations Global Marketplace, formerly Common Supply Database, maintained by IAPSO.

As the procurement agent of the Global Tuberculosis Drug Facility (GDF), IAPSO has used its e commerce application effectively to deliver drugs around the world, valued in 2002 at US 11 million.

In paragraph 512, the Administration agreed with the Board's recommendation that it review and update the distribution of procurement authority at the United Nations Office at Geneva in a timely manner.

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1 P 5, 1 GS OL

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In paragraph 526, the Board recommends that the United Nations Office at Geneva address the concerns regarding procurement functions, pertaining to the assessment of vendor performance and the segregation of duties.

See IAPSO procurement statistics at www.iapso.org.

The principal recommendation of the report calling for the establishment of a single common administrative services unit to be managed by UNOV should, when implemented, also pool procurement services at this duty station.

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(h) Procurement and supply

Procurement and contracting

In 2004, the White House Office of Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP) issued a memorandum encouraging increased use of commercially available online procurement tools, including reverse auctions.

Comment by the Administration. The Information Technology Services Division and the Procurement Service of the Office of Central Support Services have taken action to ensure that all aspects of agreements with third parties are adequately controlled.

These principles and stages are summarized in IAPSO's Common Guidelines for Procurement by Organizations in the United Nations system .

Summarized from information provided in UNDP IAPSO brochure Review 2002 and from the Inspector's discussions with IAPSO officials.

(a) The International Federation of Purchasing and Materials Management had changed its name to International Federation of Purchasing and Supply Management

The Board took note of changes in the names of certain non governmental organizations that already enjoyed observer status with UNCTAD, as follows

Besides UNIDO, UNOPS also procured ozone related items at a value of US 15 million in 2002.

1 P 5, 1 P 4, 2 P 3, 1 P 3,a 1 GS (OL), 9 NO, 5 NO,a 1 NS, 15 NS,a 9 UNV, 11 UNVa

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Specifically, the Inter Agency Procurement Services Office will make specific and strategic efforts to promote the use of suppliers from developing countries to ensure a wider distribution of supply sources (para. UNDP will progressively introduce mandatory procurement plans by September 2007 (para.

The mandate given to IAPSO to promote cooperation and coordination is the same objective pursued by IAPWG.

As an intermediate stage on this road map, however, the procurement services of the funds and programmes based at Headquarters could be merged, and IAPSO should be absorbed by the new entity.

Further, the need to rethink the relationship between UNOPS and IAPSO has already been touched upon elsewhere in this report.

UNON expenditure in 2001 was US 188 million average expenditure per staff member in 2001 2002 was US 6 million procured per staff member.