(h) Procurement and supply

Procurement vendor roster

Procurement vendor roster

As part of this exercise, the Procurement Section has also reportedly utilized the vendor roster provided by the Headquarters Procurement Division.

In such cases, the procurement sections would resort to pre qualified or known suppliers for the requisitioned goods and services.

The Conference expresses concern with the appearance of clandestine international nuclear supply and procurement networks, including for the most sensitive technologies and weapons designs.

Trade and commerce, material and technical supplies and purchases

Grants should also be provided for the purchase of equipment and materials.

Where, however, the procurement officer believes that such a supplier should be invited to tender, then the concurrence of the Chief of the Procurement Division must first be obtained.

Article 11 of the Model Procurement Law requires the procuring entity to maintain a record of the procurement proceedings containing certain minimum information, and provides for that information to be made accessible.

It addressed such matters as the issuance of a code of ethics for procurement staff, procurement planning, training, measures to improve lead time, vendor performance reporting and vendor registration.

In the event that existing arrangements are retained, UNDP should continue to finance the inter agency services IAPSO provides to IAPWG membership.

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

22. Procurement planning should be improved to avoid piecemeal purchases.

The Procurement Service is also in the process of promulgating a United Nations vendor code of conduct.

It is also developing a common procurement management system, which will improve vendor data integrity.

The Procurement Service has been taking all possible measures to increase procurement opportunities for vendors from developing countries and countries with economies in transition.

Most of the organizations currently use e procurement for displaying or posting procurement information on their web sites, including procurement guidelines, and for communicating with suppliers and clients.

Procurement opportunities for vendors from developing countries and countries with economies in transition

The evaluation report should be prepared with the involvement of professionals from the private sector supply industry and discussed by the entire IAPWG membership, which in turn should adopt recommendations for its procurement community as a whole.

In France, ERAs are authorized for the purchase of standard supplies.

The revised Procurement Manual contains guidelines on supplier selection criteria.

The delays in processing of requisitions resulted in rush purchases without providing adequate opportunity for competition among a wide range of suppliers.

Assesses the adequacy and effectiveness of internal controls in procurement, including the system for acquisition, registration of vendors, bidding process and award of contracts.

The Administration reported one ex gratia payment amounting to 40,000 that had been made to the father of a deceased UNMIK staff member who had lost her life while performing official duties during the financial period ended 30 June 2005.

The procurement regulations may prescribe the information that is to be so provided.

The delays in processing of requisitions resulted in rush purchases without providing adequate opportunity for competition among a wide range of suppliers

(b) The plan should indicate the method of procurement, in line with the Procurement Manual and existing guidelines.

The Working Group also considered the question of whether the provision of software by the procuring entity to potential suppliers should be made without charge (A CN.9 WG.I WP.38 Add.1, para.

The web sites are generally linked to those of other procurement services within the United Nations system as well as to the United Nations Global Marketplace, formerly Common Supply Database, maintained by IAPSO.

The review stated that the Service website (http www.un.org Depts ptd) was an extensive, well designed site with current information directly relevant to the needs of prospective and active suppliers and that the transparent and open approach of the Service to sourcing and vendor development was directly in line with that of leading public procurement agencies.

(1) quater The procuring entity should take account of the response supplied in evaluating the tenders.

The Procurement and Logistics Division is working with CIPS, the internal training cadre and the UNRWA training coordinator to ensure that training is offered and made as accessible as possible to all Procurement and Logistics Division staff in all locations.

The Procurement Services should investigate ways in which the procurement plan can be enhanced as a tool in the management of the entire procurement process.

Consequently, the Working Group concluded that it would not be appropriate to require procuring entities to provide all software without charge, but that the Guide should provide that procuring entities should not use a charging facility to levy disproportionate charges or to restrict access to the procurement.

40. The Board noted that the Purchase and Transportation Section of the United Nations Office at Geneva is currently considering new procurement practices to provide more flexibility for small purchases below an agreed threshold and a volume purchase agreement to supply all other such purchases on the basis of a monthly invoice.

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

The public procurement system could be a practical instrument in the hands of municipalities to tender contracts to local small scale service providers.

(1) Except as otherwise provided by this chapter, a procuring entity engaging in procurement of goods or construction shall do so by means of tendering proceedings.

The Procurement Service has been making efforts to obtain vendor performance evaluations from requisitioners regularly and prior to the extension of contracts.

As explained elsewhere in the present report, a number of initiatives are being taken to improve operations in the entire supply chain, that is, in the Procurement Division and other units involved in the procurement function.

With regard to the establishment of a supplier review committee, it is the position of the Administration that, given the volume of procurement activities at ESCWA and the fact that the procurement team consists of only four staff members, section 5.03 of the Procurement Manual, which applies to offices at which procurement activities are carried out by several procurement sections, cannot be implemented.

Provision is made for the purchase of cleaning materials.

(e) There is a need to speed up and streamline commodity procurement as well as to improve supply management at the country level, in order to deliver an uninterrupted supply of medicines and diagnostics

29. Requests the Secretary General to ensure that the United Nations Global Marketplace website, inter alia, features lists of companies that register through the Global Marketplace as vendors of United Nations system entities, as well as statistics on contract awards, acquisition plans and procurement notices