(c) Where requisitions are prepared by procurement staff they should be approved by project managers prior to processing and this approval should be formally evidenced (para. 31)

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

The Board recommended, and the Office agreed, that where requisitions are prepared by procurement staff they should be approved by project managers prior to processing and that this approval should be formally evidenced.

E. Procurement guidelines

Wholesalers collate, store and disburse products.

(1) (Subject to approval by (the enacting State designates an organ to issue the approval),) a procuring entity may engage in procurement by means of an electronic reverse auction in accordance with article 47 bis and ter, in the following circumstances

The authorizing officer s procurement plan should be submitted to the project manager at least one month prior to the field s first proposed procurement action.

The Procurement Division was reorganized, procurement staff received training, the delegation of procurement authority has been adjusted and new procurement guidelines were finalized.

The Procurement Division was reorganized, procurement staff received training, the delegation of procurement authority has been adjusted and new procurement guidelines were finalized.

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

A contract to provide 41 million of fuel was signed without a performance bond having been requested.

IAPWG should adopt, approve and implement the concept of lead agency and promote a division of labour among the organizations, aimed at further rationalization of procurement practices by its members.

It was stipulated that the first purchase should be made before 30 September 1993 and the second before 31 December 1993.

Evolve standards of measuring efficiency in procurement

The Board considers that project managers should approve the requisitions.

The police department immediately sends the application to the Ministry of the Interior.

The splitting of requisitions allowed bypassing of the normal procurement procedures and scrutiny by the committees on contracts.

o In several instances, the Mission s Procurement Section interfered in the requisitioning process, resulting in splitting of requisitions and lengthy delays in processing.

(g) Monitor ex post facto submissions and address the underlying causes of those submissions that do not meet the definition of exigency (para. 131)

These principles and stages are summarized in IAPSO's Common Guidelines for Procurement by Organizations in the United Nations system .

28. For items procured by the field office (generally below 30,000, or where further delegated, up to 100,000), the Office requires the authorizing officer to prepare a procurement plan, giving a detailed list of anticipated purchases.

(c) Benefits for standardization of procurement rules and procedures

UNDP will progressively introduce mandatory procurement plans by September 2007 (para. 374), strengthen its ability to monitor and address cases where purchase orders are split to avoid compliance with procurement thresholds (para. 365) and implement granular Atlas user security roles to restrict the ability of a single person to both create and approve a purchase order (para.

3. The audit team found that, in several instances, the Mission s Procurement Section had interfered in the requisitioning process, resulting in splitting of requisitions and badly delaying the processing of requisitions.

All of them are for humanitarian items that were included in the categorized lists annexed to the purchase and distribution plan approved by you.

Mining beyond the approved limits of mining areas or seams shall be forbidden.

174. Out of the 338 purchase orders issued, approval for 130 (38 per cent) was on an ex post facto basis, indicating that the purchases had been made without prior approval.

(i) Continuous review and updating of procurement guidelines and procedures

Recently, the Board of Executive Directors approved new loan document and procurement guidelines.

The revised Procurement Manual contains guidelines on supplier selection criteria.

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.

This lack of clarity has implications for implementation of IAPWG's recommendations or decisions in the organizations and for budgeting resources for joint procurement improvement projects, and the choice of resources that must be approved by the governing bodies.

The minutes of meetings of the Headquarters Committee on Contracts indicate that losses were suffered as a result of performance bonds not always being obtained in accordance with the contract stipulations.

UNHCR has taken measures to enforce the existing procurement guidelines to ensure more consistency and efficiency in the procurement process.

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.

The splitting of requisitions allowed bypassing of the normal procurement procedures and of scrutiny by the Local and Headquarters Committees on Contracts.

5. Requests the Secretary General, in the context of his next report on procurement reform, to evolve and provide the standards for measuring efficiency of procurement, taking into account the optimal duration of the procurement decision making process, the total workload in the Procurement Division and the cost efficiency of procurement, against which the performance should be measured

5. Requests the Secretary General, in the context of his next report on procurement reform, to evolve and provide the standards for measuring the efficiency of procurement, taking into account the optimal duration of the procurement decision making process, the total workload in the Procurement Division of the Secretariat and the cost efficiency of procurement, against which the performance should be measured

Anyone wishing to acquire, purchase and possess a weapon must obtain special authorization from the Minister of Internal Affairs in the Niger.

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.

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

During its interim audit in April 2005, the Board noted that there were still delays in excess of 100 days in both the time between the order dates and the dates that purchase orders were approved, and the time between the requisition dates and the requisition approval dates.

While most of the procurement staff are familiar with the standards of conduct, updated by inter office memorandum dated 21 November 2004, the Procurement and Logistics Division agrees that familiarity with those standards needs to be documented and extended to all staff associated with the procurement process.

(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) .