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.

Capacity building in public procurement agencies in the recipient countries

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.

General Committee

High level Plenary Meeting of the General Assembly

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.

General Accounts Office, Secretariat General, Chief of Staff, 1991

(b) Three Procurement Assistants, national General Service staff (new posts)

These included the food safety agency, the public procurement agency, the procurement review board, the market surveillance agency, the information society agency and the institutes for standardization, metrology and intellectual property.

In April 2004, the General Legal Division made a presentation on the General Conditions of Contract at a conference in New York, arranged by the Procurement Service for chiefs of procurement from peacekeeping and other field offices.

UNICEF agrees to benchmark its procurement services with United Nations and other public procurement services, considering each organization's specificities to determine whether the level of its handling charge for cost recovery is appropriate.

Taking this into account, the Advisory Committee recommends approval of posts for one Procurement Assistant (Field Service) three Procurement Assistants (national General Service staff) and two Procurement Assistants (United Nations Volunteers).

1 public health consultancy.

Simplifying customs procedures and opening up markets for public procurement could bring further benefits.

In paragraph 272, the Board recommended that the UNICEF procurement services benchmark with United Nations and other public procurement services, considering each organization's specificities, to determine whether the level of its handling charge for cost recovery is appropriate.

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.

The variance relates to requirements of the Procurement Service for functions relating to freight forwarding operations to be performed through the temporary recruitment of three General Service staff as a result of a review of the current arrangements for freight forwarding as recommended by the Office of Internal Oversight Services.

Procurement

Election of officers for the sixtieth session of the General Assembly

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.

Source 1999 Census, General Statistic Office

Measures taken to improve the management and efficiency of the Office of the Prosecutor

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.

Procurement Unit

1 P 5, 1 GS OL

Senegal

65 NS (28 NSc),

The Bank publishes periodic Country Procurement Assessment Reports available on its web site and, as earlier noted, promotes e commerce platforms in public procurement agencies in the recipient countries.

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 Office of the Prosecutor has no explicit mandate to arrest indictees.

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.