Debt buy back and Brady bonds11

Review allotment reports, in particular outstanding obligations, in conjunction with Purchase and Transport Service

IAPSO Inter Agency Procurement Services Office

(b) Inter Agency Procurement Services Office

JPS Joint Purchase Service

The Section is considering new procurement practices to provide more flexibility for small purchases.

General Services Procurement

Commodity Procurement Section I Commodity Procurement Section II Support Services Section

Common procurement services

UNDP Inter Agency Procurement Services Office (IAPSO) already has an advanced e procurement platform.

(a) Procurement and Logistics Services

The primary source of procurement statistics is the annual report on United Nations system procurement issued by the Inter Agency Procurement Services Office of UNDP.

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.

Inter Agency Procurement Services Office

Direct procurement of drugs by the recipient countries is also possible through IAPSO's e commerce platform.

Thirdly, it should considerably facilitate procurement reform and the pooling of procurement services.

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.

(d) Networking of procurement services

Administrative Support Services Procurement Section

4. Commercial, procurement and transportation services

(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 Chief Procurement Officer will be responsible for the procurement of goods and services both locally and regionally and will supervise the staff in the Procurement Section in undertaking required administrative actions relating to procurement, including the bidding process.

(c) in the area of procurement, the UNCITRAL Model Law on Procurement of Goods, Construction and Services

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

Goods and services were procured, and payments made, without following the established procedures for procurement and without issuing purchase orders

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the nature of the products or services being procured

Working group on procurement common services

For the Japanese Procurement Programme, expenditure incurred in other currencies is fixed at the United Nations operational rate of exchange in effect at the date of the establishment of the related obligation.

(f) Review its procurement operations in the light of the new procurement practices to be introduced by the United Nations Office at Geneva (para. 40).

(e) Protection of the insolvency estate against the actions of creditors, the debtor itself and the insolvency representative, and where the protective measures apply to secured creditors, the manner in which the economic value of the security interest will be protected during the insolvency proceedings

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Source IAPSO

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Note 4. Miscellaneous income from procurement services

IAPWG meetings held every two years in the developing countries and the business seminars organized in the developing regions by the United Nations Procurement Division (UNPD) appear to have afforded opportunities for increased participation of recipient countries in the procurement business of the United Nations system.

UNOPS procurement office is in the same building with IAPSO in Copenhagen.

However, effective 1 January 1996, the Purchase and Transportation Service was restructured and renamed the Procurement and Transportation Division.

(b) Review its procurement operations in the light of the new procurement practices to be introduced by the United Nations Office at Geneva.

Similarly, internal and external reviews conducted in the past few years on the role of the Inter agency Procurement Services Office (IAPSO), extended neither to other procuring entities of the system, nor to cooperative arrangements at the different duty stations at global and field levels, nor for that matter to the mandate of IAPWG serviced by IAPSO.

UNITAR should review its procurement operations in the light of the new procurement practices to be introduced by the United Nations Office at Geneva (para. 10 (f)).

In that context, we reiterate the calls for more radical action by the international community, in line with recommendations that debt relief should cover multilateral and bilateral debt and reduce debt stock and debt servicing by up to 100 per cent.

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.

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