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.

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.

Procurement refers to the acquisition of goods and services by any individual or organization (public, private, international, etc.).

Procurement

Procurement Unit

1 P 5, 1 GS OL

Senegal

65 NS (28 NSc),

The table displays two staffing efficiency measures, the average value procured in 2002 by each staff member (Professional and General Service combined) of an organization's procurement unit, and procurement staff costs as a percentage of procurement spending.

See IAPSO procurement statistics at www.iapso.org.

The Procurement Goldmine

Procurement report

(h) Procurement and supply

Procurement and contracting

(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

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

Adaptation to climate variability will be the only way forward in many destinations that are currently prime holiday spots.

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

To ensure that the Department of Peacekeeping Operations submits the consolidated acquisition plan to the Procurement Service by 1 June of each financial year, the Department has an internal goal of submitting all acquisition plans to the Procurement Service by 15 May.

Public procurement and management of public finances

Procurement at international organizations

Procurement Section (8 new posts)

Aggregate procurement value and trends

ICAO procurement in 2001 was valued at US 89,410 average expenditure per staff member in 2001 2002 was US 5,844 procured per staff member.

The Procurement Service agrees with this recommendation.

The following posts are proposed for the Procurement Section

The value of such procurement appears limited.

The Procurement Service instead proposed an amendment to the Procurement Manual that would deal with the issue.

In paragraph 557, the Administration agreed with the Board's recommendation that it implement low value procurement principles, in line with the United Nations Procurement Manual and the Financial Regulations and Rules of the United Nations, in order to optimize procurement and staff performance.

Through the existing World Bank WHO capacity building programme and other initiatives, multilateral institutions and international partners will intensify their efforts to build national capacity on procurement and supply chain management.

External validation of the procurement system

The Procurement Service agrees with this recommendation.

Subsequently renamed Procurement Service.

Mandate change in scope and scale of mandate

Figure 1 Total procurement of goods and services, 1998 2002

Source IAPSO

(b) Inter Agency Procurement Services Office

(d) Networking of procurement services

Table 4 Benefits and beneficiaries of electronic government procurement

Excluding IAPSO.

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

(c) Common procurement services and other cooperative arrangements

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).

In paragraph 236 of its report, the Board recommended that the Economic Commission for Africa request the assistance of the Procurement Division since renamed Procurement Service in implementing a code of ethics and the signing of declarations of independence of all staff members involved in procurement.