81. The Procurement Division is the focal point of the Organization for the acquisition of a broad range of goods and services required by peacekeeping operations and other field missions that cannot be procured locally in the respective mission areas.

Changes to regulations and rules on procurement have been drafted by OCSS.

CEB members believe that the current modality of consortium buying and or the lead agency approach are capable of achieving the same results and benefits of a central procurement facility.

Decentralization of procurement from the central to the provincial level required training the staff in how to tender with contractors and procure local materials.

The increase in the case of the Field Administration and Logistics Division is attributable to the increased delegation of procurement authority to missions, where most procurement is sourced within the locality or region of the mission.

In addition, generic and topic specific procurement handbooks and manuals are often prepared by central or local authorities, but could also be issued by procuring entities or agencies responsible for maintaining government procurement websites.

Many delegations urged that the Secretariat take all possible measures to increase procurement from developing countries, that troop contributors be given preferential consideration for procurement of goods and services for their personnel and that the lowest priority be given to Member States that were not meeting their financial obligations.

o In several instances, the Mission s Procurement Section interfered in the requisitioning process, resulting in splitting of requisitions and lengthy delays in processing.

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22. The Board examined the procurement of goods and services during the 1992 1993 audit of the Office of Project Services (now United Nations Office for Project Services) and concluded that there were few staff in the central procurement section with any recognized qualifications in procurement.

The head of the Procurement Division performs the function of a programme manager responsible for the day to day conduct of United Nations procurement activities under the general supervision of the Assistant Secretary General for Central Support Services.

148. For 1998 1999, the Unit will, in addition to its regular tasks, finalize the request for proposal for vehicles variants and ancillary services, the request for proposal for procurement of standardized vehicle batteries and the request for proposal for centralized procurement of standardized vehicle tyres.

The Board reiterates its previous recommendation that the Administration ensure that peacekeeping missions compile assessments of progress and final performance of vendors and forward them to the Procurement Service in a timely manner in order to prevent situations in which contracts are maintained, extended and or renewed in the absence of vendor evaluations.

(xii) Procurement services posting of procurement plans and upcoming procurement opportunities on the Division's website preparation and issuance of tenders presentation of cases to the Headquarters Committee on Contracts, including review of procurement procedures being proposed and conducted by offices away from Headquarters and peacekeeping and other field missions award of purchase orders and contracts and negotiation and execution of contracts for the procurement of goods and services

The Board considers that the Office should monitor centrally the procurement performance of the integrated divisions and develop and monitor procurement performance indicators, such as speed of delivery and prices.

Procurement activities in peacekeeping missions

In the meantime, the Procurement Service will organize a second round of the advanced field procurement training programme to upgrade skills of procurement staff in the field missions.

On that trip, the Chief Procurement Officer was to be assisted by the procurement assistant referred to in paragraph 14 (whose earlier dealings in South Africa, according to the UNAVEM commission, were not above board ) and a representative of the Mission s Building Engineering Section.

Secondly, the use of centralized procurement of standardized vehicles, including spare parts, should bring greater productivity and efficiency in the procurement and management of the United Nations fleet of vehicles.

The Procurement Working Group of the Task Force on Common Services at United Nations Headquarters

The Office of Internal Oversight Services believes this complements the other functions of procurement, transportation and facilities management which are within the Office of Central Support Services.

10. Simplified, generic, harmonized financial regulations for procurement have been developed by the Working Group on Procurement under the Task Force.

Calls upon the executive heads of the funds and programmes of the United Nations to continue their efforts with a view to improving the efficiency of procurement by reducing duplication and harmonizing the procurement procedures in the United Nations system as a whole, in close cooperation with the Procurement Service of the Office of Central Support Services of the United Nations Secretariat

Calls upon the executive heads of the funds and programmes of the United Nations to continue their efforts with a view to improving the efficiency of procurement by reducing duplication and harmonizing the procurement procedures in the United Nations system as a whole, in close cooperation with the Procurement Service of the Office of Central Support Services of the United Nations Secretariat

(a) Further strengthening of procurement reform at Headquarters by establishing a central procurement facility at Headquarters by 2010 with a view to providing energetic leadership and a frame of reference for similar streamlining of procurement activities at other duty stations, especially in the field (paras. 62 63)

In this capacity he she will supervise the work and training of the procurement staff, undertake procurement planning, oversee the preparation and implementation of UNOMIG procurement policy and guidelines and the development of a procurement team at UNOMIG.

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.

Aviation procurement in peacekeeping missions

No vacancy factor was applied to missions in liquidation (UNPF liquidation and central support and UNSMIH).

Procurement by the Field Administration and Logistics Division of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations, including missions procuring under delegations of authority, amounted to 122 million, or 4 per cent of total United Nations system procurement.

Further strengthening of procurement reform at Headquarters by establishing a central procurement facility at Headquarters by 2010 with a view to providing energetic leadership and a frame of reference for similar streamlining of procurement activities at other duty stations, especially in the field (para.

For example, some agencies included procurement through national execution.

One of the major items for the Task Force is procurement reform.

Permit local regional sourcing by missions

United Nations Local Missions (Peacekeeping missions) with own procurement staff, excluding other field based entities such as regional economic commissions and information centres data from UNPD web site.

A linkage has been established between the Assistant Secretary General for Central Support Services, as Executive Coordinator for Common Services, and the Inter agency Procurement Working Group, consisting of procurement officials of the United Nations system.

Total operational expenditure incurred by the those missions during the 2004 05 financial year amounted to 1.5 billion.

See, e.g., in China, the Shanghai Interim Measures for the Management of Online Public Procurement Bidding, articles 22 and 27 the Shenzhen City Interim Measures for the Management of Online Public Procurement Bidding, article 31 the Zhuhai City Interim Measures for the Management of Online Public Procurement Bidding, article 29 and the Hefei City Interim Measures for the Management of Online Public Procurement Bidding, article 25.

34. Requisitions should continue to be approved first by the Field Administration and Logistics Division using the electronic method of transmission before being passed to the Field Missions Procurement Section for procurement action.

34. Conditions of detention were extremely harsh in the majority of central prisons, communal detention centres (cachots) and gendarmerie brigades visited by the Operation.

Almost 60 per cent (1.1 per cent of GDP) was for military hardware and the rest was for purchases of supplies and wage allowances for food, medical care and bonuses for new military recruits.

UNDP supports such a procurement policy and has incorporated it into the Procurement Manual.

Nine per cent of the Division s procurement was from developing countries, which was up from 0.07 per cent in 1996.

See, in China, the Shanghai Interim Measures for the Management of Online Public Procurement Bidding , article 19 and the Zhejiang Province Interim Measures for the Management of Online Public Procurement Bidding, article 22.

12. Responsibility for providing central support in the areas of communications and air operations was transferred from the United Nations Peace Forces (UNPF) to UNMIBH on 1 July 1997.