United Nations global marketplace

The Procurement Division, however, agreed that global statistics would aid in procurement planning.

As part of the global procurement planning process, missions have been asked to submit their procurement requirements for the forthcoming budget cycle.

In the Board s view, procurement delays arose as a result of weak procurement planning at the global level.

I'm trying to build a global team, which will look at the global grand challenges that the world is facing.

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

Vendor review committees had not been established at all missions as required in the Procurement Manual.

Requests the Secretary General to encourage all the organizations of the United Nations system, consistent with their respective mandates, to further improve their procurement practices, inter alia, by participating in the United Nations Global Marketplace with a view to creating one common United Nations global procurement web site

Analysis of establishing a global procurement hub for all peacekeeping missions in Brindisi, Italy

The Division is responsible for the formulation of policies and procedures pertaining to worldwide and local procurement, for collecting information on market conditions in the respective mission areas and for participating in needs assessment and technical survey missions to determine the goods and services that can be bought locally.

Following a competitive bidding exercise in April 2001, IAPSO was selected to procure drugs and manage the related supply process for the Global Drug Facility (GDF) of the Stop TB Partnership (www.stoptb.org).

Procurement Division to review and implement increased numbers of global system blanket contracts

27. Requests the Secretary General to continue to encourage all the organizations of the United Nations system, consistent with their respective mandates, to further improve their procurement practices, inter alia, by participating in the United Nations Global Marketplace with a view to creating one common United Nations global procurement website

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.

59. The Board also considers that delays arose as a result of weak procurement planning at a global level.

22. In response one delegation stressed the importance of knowing the full procurement picture, including local and implementing partner purchases.

One delegation requested an explanation of funding modalities with respect to GTT.

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.

The Secretariat started using the United Nations Global Marketplace in February 2004 and will deploy it to the peacekeeping missions during 2005.

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.

(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

UNDP IAPSO also has an advanced e procurement platform and is expecting a global e procurement solution in 2005 as part of the roll out of its ERP system.

44. Since the Administration had no database of global procurements at Headquarters, it was unable to establish any process for reviewing and comparing procurements arranged from commercial sources against those under letters of assist.

(e) The Administration should establish a global procurement planning process in order to avoid unwarranted extensions of contracts and also to benefit from economies of scale where possible (para. 59)

The Administration should establish a global procurement planning process in order to avoid unwarranted extensions of contracts and also to benefit from economies of scale where possible (para. 59) .

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.

(b) The acquisition of vehicles under a global purchase order resulted in a lower cost per vehicle compared to the standard cost utilized in the budget

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

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

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.

(h) Report of the Secretary General on the analysis of establishing a global procurement hub for all peacekeeping missions in Brindisi, Italy (A 59 703)

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.

Delegations underscored the importance of effective reporting on the actions taken by UNDP and UNFPA in implementing the GTT recommendations.

The Procurement Service engaged in a management review of vendor registration in 2004 in cooperation with the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) and the Inter Agency Procurement Services Office of UNDP, and has joined the United Nations Global Marketplace, the Internet based single gateway for vendor registration.

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.

23. The Director confirmed that UNHCR was working very hard to achieve obtain a full picture of procurement by UNHCR globally.

Aviation procurement in peacekeeping missions

28. Stresses the need to ensure transparency in procurement throughout the United Nations system, and requests the Secretary General to ensure that the United Nations Global Marketplace website is fully accessible to Member States no later than 1 June 2007

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.

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

Permit local regional sourcing by missions

The Global Task Team recommends that

The Global Task Team recommends that

The Global Task Team recommends that