Commodity Procurement Section I Commodity Procurement Section II Support Services Section

Thus, the emphasis was changed to the commodity or service being procured rather than on the location of the office or field mission for which it was being purchased.

Procurement vendor roster

Procurement vendor roster

In addition, cash purchases from local suppliers would replace international procurement of food ration commodities, thereby supporting local economies.

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

4. Commercial, procurement and transportation services

With the exception of IAPSO, which has automated all its procurement stages and processes thanks to its UNWebBuy e commerce platform, all the organizations are still more or less at the e procurement start line.

Wholesalers collate, store and disburse products.

About 20 per cent of such procurement is performed by field based peacekeeping procurement units.

(b) International procurement of strategic food commodities

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.

Procurement foreign military sales (FMS)

The new organizational structure for procurement was commodity based, with the Commodity Procurement Section being organized into various clusters, each being responsible for an identifiable range of commodities.

In addition, the Board concluded that there were a number of weaknesses in the procedures applied by headquarters purchasing unit, and that the Office could take steps to adopt a more commercial approach to purchasing.

Thus, when such a recommendation is received by the Procurement Division (which should be in exceptional circumstances only), the procurement officer must carefully evaluate and scrutinize the desirability and propriety of including the recommended supplier on the invitee list.

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

Beyond that, the example already provided by IAPSO's e commerce platform shows the way forward.

Procurement in offices away from Headquarters

(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.

Many of these services were initially performed in house by firms but are now regularly purchased from or outsourced to outside providers.

(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

Trade and commerce, material and technical supplies and purchases

34. Requisitions should continue to be approved first by the Field Administration and Logistics Division using the electronic method of transmission before being passed to the Field Missions Procurement Section for procurement action.

External validation of the procurement system

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

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

Procurement decisions, especially where exceptions to procurement instructions are made, should be better documented.

Procurement Officer (FS, 1 post)

In addition, it is incumbent upon each procurement officer in each case to determine that the prospective awardee is responsible.

The 1997 exercise requires Field Offices to report all procurement anticipated in the course of 1997, including that of implementing partners.

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.

The countries surveyed appear not to have developed specific regulation of the conduct of third party ERA service providers, apart from a general requirement that an external provider has to carry out the procurement function on behalf of a government agency in accordance with existing procurement procedures, process and requirements.

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.

Current business seminars by UNPD and training initiatives by IAPSO are patently inadequate relative to the task at hand.

(d) Request for brand names at ECLAC trade and brand names were specified in the requisitions, contrary to the provisions of the Procurement Manual (21 cases)

3 bis. The revised article 9 of the Model Law provides that the procuring entity may choose the method by which it will communicate with suppliers or contractors in the procurement process.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

It is assumed that owing to oversight Procurement did not renegotiate the price with the contractor, and did not request that the additional two buses be provided free of charge.

16. Annual procurement plans should be obtained from all field offices and procurement planning should be strengthened further to ensure economy and efficiency in procurement planning.

In the area of government procurement, discrimination against foreign suppliers and non transparent procedures can thwart market opportunities.