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 Procurement and Travel Section and other units should be encouraged to prepare procurement plans and the use of blanket contracts expanded.

The Procurement and Contracts Unit has consolidated the submitted procurement plans and conducts periodic review meetings with the major clients.

Develops and implements work plans and provides overall management of the Division.

Similarly, IAPSO remains more a United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) entity than an inter agency procurement facility since it is not used as such by the United Nations procurement system.

UNDP supports such a procurement policy and has incorporated it into the Procurement Manual.

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.

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

In collaboration with the European Commission, UNDP assisted with the procurement of election materials and equipment.

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.

(h) Closer engagement with and linkage of the respective business plans of United Nations agencies

UNDP United Nations Development Programme

Postponement of the planned purchase.

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(d) United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

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Annual procurement planning

(g) To provide comment and input to the workplan of the United Nations Board of Auditors

UNICEF, in collaboration with several other United Nations agencies (the Inter Agency Procurement Services Office (IAPSO), the Training Centre in Turin, Italy, UNDP, UNOPS), has agreed to a revised Common Procurement Training initiative for the United Nations.

35. Over the past three and a half years, the Department has achieved the integration of approximately 30 United Nations information centres with field offices of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

Registration of prospective local vendors

(a) United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), New York

integrating civil dimensions into military planning and joint training

Systems contracts are feasible when there is advance procurement planning and the cooperation of the requisitioning offices is given at all phases of procurement.

In paragraphs 259 and 260 of its report,2 the Board of Auditors refers to the need for peacekeeping missions to submit procurement plans in a timely manner, in order to expedite the compilation of an overall procurement plan.

This scheme is jointly funded by the Government of the United Kingdom, UNDP and ACTIONAID.

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

United Nations Development Program

International Confederation of Free Trade Unions

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It should be noted that the heads of procurement services of such organizations as the United Nations Children s Fund and the Inter Agency Procurement Services Office of UNDP are already at the D 2 level.

The 1996 purchasing plan exercise resulted in the highest ever number of plans submitted to Headquarters by Field Offices.

To ensure that the Department of Peacekeeping Operations submits the consolidated acquisition plan to the Procurement Service by 1 June of each financial year, the Department has an internal goal of submitting all acquisition plans to the Procurement Service by 15 May.

The Advisory Committee underlined the importance of revisiting procurement plans on a quarterly basis to ensure that they were updated with regard to the operational requirements of a mission, and the need to enforce the use of procurement plans as tools to facilitate effective and efficient procurement management, as recommended by the Board of Auditors.

JPS Joint Purchase Service

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Joint workplan for 2008

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