The Procurement Service has also provided guidance to its staff, clarifying procedures for vendor name changes and centralizing vendor financial information and established criteria for special approval of vendors.

Market concentration has effects on other players in the distribution sector and suppliers of goods.

Thus, the group of project sponsors usually includes construction and engineering companies and suppliers of heavy equipment interested in becoming the main contractors or suppliers of the project.

There are also cases in which terrorist groups act as suppliers for organized criminal groups.

In Brazil, ERAs are open to all suppliers registered in the centralized contractor supplier register (SICAF).

(ii) Material assistance Organization by social welfare centres of shops with clothing, food and sanitary goods (coming from the collections of social welfare centres) which are delivered free of charge or cheaply sold to persons under the charge of social welfare centres

The IKEA agreement covers also suppliers to IKEA and the whole supply chain as well as the IKEA owned Swedwood Group.

There are thousands of suppliers in there.

3. Invites the Regional Centre, taking into account the availability of financial resources, to focus its actions on the priorities identified in the recommendations of the Consultative Mechanism

Vendors 7.4 7.0

Supplier registration, supplier information, reference library and catalogues

For example, the Manual did not specify the frequency at which the Supplier Roster Committee should review the evaluation of the supplier applications and review recommendations for the removal of suppliers from the roster.

Procurement policies should apply to suppliers from all regions and should be geared towards increasing the participation of suppliers from developing countries.

12. Further regrets that, despite the initial efforts of the Secretary General, the supplier roster is still not representative of the membership of the Organization, and requests him to intensify further and focus his efforts to broaden the geographical base of the supplier roster

Merck's engagement policy

Procurement planning

Refunds received from supplier

Supplier roster

In the majority of developing countries, competition policy frameworks tend to be weak, and opening up the retail sector can lead to concentration of providers in profitable segments of the country.

In June 2004, China joined the Nuclear Suppliers Group.

Fees for collection or supply

(4)(b) The successful tender shall be that submitted by a supplier that has been determined to be fully qualified to undertake the contract, and whose tender is

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On vendor management, UNDP will formalize the directive on the suppliers' code of conduct (para. 368), institutionalize the supplier evaluation in Atlas (para. 371) and take steps to archive inactive vendors (para.

Vendor registration

In paragraph 95, the Board recommended that the Tribunal perform supplier evaluations of existing vendors prior to extending or renewing a contract with the same vendor.

40. Further decides that three of the posts established above (one P 4, one P 3 and one General Service (Other level)) will be designated to the Vendor Registration and Management Team with a view to, inter alia, promoting the diversification of the origin of vendors among all Member States, including developing countries and countries with economies in transition, simplifying vendor registration, managing the vendor database and liaising with vendors

7. The UNAVEM commission had gathered strong evidence that the Mission s Procurement Section frequently awarded large contracts to a restricted group of suppliers in South Africa, who acted only as middlemen, thereby increasing the prices of the goods purchased, because of the mark up for commissions.

Many among them are also major commodity suppliers.

This in turn may reduce the opportunities for manufacturers from the developing countries to sell their products to the United Nations.

Others may decide to aggregate traffic with other operators and thus gain leverage in their dealings with global providers.

(a) Potential suppliers should already be indicated.

o The re registration of vendors has been initiated to ensure that suppliers of doubtful quality are not utilized.

Gas suppliers

Custody and control of equipment

Performance evaluation of suppliers

Vendor misconduct

The services provided by the customers or suppliers

Some agreements also have effects on franchising, sub contracting companies and suppliers in the supply chain.

Notes with concern that occurrences attributed to specific vendors were not included in the vendor performance reports, and requests the Secretary General to take all necessary measures to ensure that such occurrences are reflected in the appropriate vendor performance report

While it is not clear what information was exchanged by the consortium and the supplier, a breach of confidentiality by the consortium cannot be excluded.

The need for broadening the geographical base of the supplier roster and the procurement of goods and services on as wide a geographical basis as possible was emphasized.

The need for broadening the geographical base of the supplier roster and the procurement of goos and services on as wide a geographical basis as possible was emphasized.

OIOS welcomes the initiative of the United Nations Office at Geneva not to provide the names of the companies to the consortium to ensure the anonymity of suppliers during the evaluation and contract award process.