External validation of the procurement system

This procurement system will be purchased and implemented within the year 2006 2007 and will be integrated with the financial management system.

The procurement and inventory system will be purchased and implemented in the 2006 2007 biennium.

Informal briefing (closed) by the Under Secretary General for Management on procurement

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.

Beyond that, the example already provided by IAPSO's e commerce platform shows the way forward.

Comment by the Administration. The lead times have been reduced from an average of 116 days to 55 days, according to the records in Mercury, the field procurement management system.

Requests the Secretary General to continue to improve reporting procurement data to Member States and to consider procurement system processes utilized in the government and private sectors

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.

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The paper cites the example of the Republic of Korea's Government Electronic Procurement System which cost US 26 million to develop but saves US 2.7 billion of all government procurement valued at US 17.1 billion.

Accordingly, training of procurement staff has been an integral part of the procurement reform programme at the United Nations in the past decade.

It would consolidate the results achieved thus far in procurement reform, and lend further recognition and visibility to the procurement profession within the United Nations itself, and by extension, within the common system as a whole.

Procurement Unit

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One of the elements of the project is to train selected procurement specialists from the various agencies as instructors of candidates in the certification scheme.

See IAPSO procurement statistics at www.iapso.org.

In addition, in August 2005, the Secretary General commissioned a full financial and internal control review of the United Nations current procurement system.

Work is also under way to validate our procurement system to ensure that it meets the highest global standards and to develop policy guidance on the provision of pro bono goods and services.

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

14. Further requests the Secretary General to include information, as appropriate, on the bid protest system on the website of the Procurement Division

The need to expand training for procurement staff has been reiterated in successive General Assembly resolutions on procurement reform since 1996.

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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

To facilitate data exchange between Headquarters and the peacekeeping missions, the Procurement Service has been working with the Department of Peacekeeping Operations to develop a common procurement management system.

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.

It is anticipated that, with the expected implementation of Mercury, the field procurement management system, at United Nations Headquarters by the end of 2006, all data, especially amendments, will be fully integrated.

Public procurement has been employed to advance social equity objectives, for example, with special consideration given to businesses owned by certain disadvantaged groups or targets for women's employment.

The Procurement Service agrees with this recommendation.