The key stages in the process are also similar from preparation of solicitation documents to bid review and contract award.

Recently, the Board of Executive Directors approved new loan document and procurement guidelines.

Projects, such as the procurement of a new document management system, are assigned resources for hardware, software and training.

In Austria (Purchase Contract Awards Act 2002, para. 116.2 4), it is required by law that the procuring entities grant unrestricted access free of charge to any and all documentation concerning the auction, including the solicitation documents, as of the day of the notice.

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

Procurement from programme countries 6

Increasing procurement from developing countries

In Australia, regulation is currently limited to policy documents, non statutory procurement guidelines and broad statutory provisions about electronic procurement.

Department of Development Support and Management Services procurement by the Contracts and Procurement Service A 50 945, annex

C. Procurement from programme countries 13 16 5

1. The present addendum reports on subsequent developments in procurement since the issuance of document A 53 271.

In the early stages of cooperation, DASA was providing hardware it had now begun to procure equipment and satellite components from India.

Procurement software is also compliant.

The EU directive provides that if the specifications and additional documents related to procurement are published in their entirety on the Internet from the date of publication of the contract notice and the contract notice specifies the Internet address at which this documentation is accessible, procuring entities are allowed to shorten the time limits for receipt of tenders.

(c) Acquisition of documents and publications

As noted in paragraphs 3 to 7 and annex I to document A 52 534 and Corr.1, the Procurement Division was then restructured into two Commodity Procurement Sections, each with four clusters, and one Support Services Section.

Some 7.3 million ITNs, including 4.3 million long lasting nets, were procured by UNICEF in 2004, compared to 4.8 million in 2003.

The recommendations contained in the OIOS report (A 50 945, annex) concerning procurement handled by the Contracts and Procurement Service have been addressed by the transfer of procurement responsibilities to the Procurement Division of the Department of Management.

Upon enquiry, the Committee was furnished with the organizational chart of the Commodity Procurement Section (see annex to the present report).

Department of Management Procurement reform A 52 813, annex

Upon receipt of the application documents, the procurement centre will examine and decide, within the period of time set by law, whether to grant membership to the suppliers (see articles 7 9 of the Shanghai Interim Measures for the Management of Online Public Procurement Bidding and article 11 of the Interim Measures for the Management of Online Public Procurement Bidding of Shunyi District of Beijing).

The background to the current work of Working Group I (Procurement) on the revision of the UNCITRAL Model Law on Procurement of Goods, Construction and Services (hereafter the UNCITRAL Model Procurement Law or the Model Law ) is set out in paragraphs 1 to 5 of document A CN.9 WG.I WP.34, submitted to the Working Group for its consideration at its seventh session.

In China, regulations on online public procurement bidding have been adopted by a number of local governments while in Singapore, the subject is regulated by internal documents of procuring agencies.

Methods to increase procurement from developing countries

Suppliers must then submit to procurement centres originals and duplicates of the following documents (a) business licences and certificates of organizational code (b) tax registration certificates (c) financial reports of the previous year (d) relevant qualification certificates (e) e mail accounts and (f) other documents required by the procurement centre.

45. The Procurement Division (formerly the Purchase and Transportation Service) at Headquarters indicated that local procurement was not its responsibility and that it maintained data only for cases received from the requisitioning offices.

The Inspector was informed that e procurement systems could compress process time cycles from four weeks to four days.

Also includes 100,000 for the acquisition of documentation and software for the development of course materials.

See, e.g., the EU Public Procurement Directive, annex VIII.

For example, in Australia, public procurement is largely governed by government procurement policies, consisting of Commonwealth Procurement Guidelines, Finance Circulars and Procurement Guidance, the latter including a range of web based and printed guidance documents developed by the Department of Finance and Administration to assist agencies and officials to implement the Government's procurement policy.

As a result, all direct purchases by the Fund for the biennium ended 31 December 1997 were made through the miscellaneous obligating document procedure which, unlike purchase orders, does not require a competitive bidding process.

This document will also contribute to the implementation of the Global Compact principles in United Nations procurement practices by addressing the issue of corporate social responsibility, environmental and sustainable procurement and corruption.

Article 28(2) allows the procuring entity to modify the documents at any time prior to the deadline for submission of tenders.

The Working Group noted the advantages of publishing information on forthcoming procurement opportunities, such as transparency in the procurement process through reducing cases of ad hoc and emergency procurements, and, consequently, less frequent recourse to less competitive methods of procurement.

The former Department for Development Support and Management Services (now part of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs), whose procurement operations are now integrated into the Procurement Division, procured 24 million in 1997, with 35 per cent of that amount from developing countries, up from 29 per cent in 1996.

Viewed in terms of cost effectiveness, if not of common sense, the need to outsource the procurement function to a sister agency, especially under common services arrangements discussed further on in the report, would seem crucial where procurement is a tactical rather than a strategic function.

See, e.g., the Australian Guidelines (see above, footnote 47) and article 4 of the Shanghai Interim Measures for the Management of Online Public Procurement Bidding (see above, footnote 45).

(On the other hand, references to laws and procurement regulations are also found in articles 27 (t) and 38 (s) of the Model Law that require the procuring entity to refer to the law, the procurement regulations and other laws and regulations directly pertinent to the procurement proceedings in the solicitation documents requests for proposals for services).

Review of the implementation of procurement reform (A 52 813, annex)

Paragraphs 20 to 25 of A CN.9 WG.I WP.35 discuss equivalent conditions for use that are in current use under various procurement systems.

UNPD United Nations Procurement Division

See IAPSO procurement statistics at www.iapso.org.

66. In addition to matters raised earlier in this report, the Board noted that essential documents, including requisitions and purchase orders, were not raised at the time of supply these were provided retroactively in order to regularize the transactions.

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.

Figure 3. Percentage from developing countries 6