E procurement is yet to be reflected in procurement policy and procedures manuals as an alternative method to manual transactions.

Owner of the Congocom comptoir, specializing in gold transactions

Oh, this takeover deal?

This recommendation has been accepted and analysis of the procurement activity is under way in an effort to reduce and consolidate transactions and identify other methods of procuring low value items.

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

...we outfitted with all kinds of trade goods...

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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.

(b) The stamp duty payable in respect of contracts, deeds and transactions pertaining to their acquisition of their dwelling.

Trade and commerce, material and technical supplies and purchases

The resolution has been shared with the IAPWG during its deliberations on procurement reforms.

The Commodity Procurement Section has been organized along the lines of commodity clusters whereby the staff resources in each cluster manage each transaction from start to finish.

Also relevant is the number of transactions or tasks required to complete the procurement process from authorization to payment and closure of accounts.

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.

The background to the current work of Working Group I (Procurement) on the revision of the UNCITRAL Model Law on Procurement of Goods, Construction and Services (hereafter the UNCITRAL Model Procurement Law or the Model Law ) is set out in paragraphs 1 to 5 of document A CN.9 WG.I WP.34, submitted to the Working Group for its consideration at its seventh session.

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

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

Functional responsibility for all procurement to be given to the Department of Management

The paper notes that thanks to e procurement prices can be reduced by 10 to 20 per cent due to increased competition and transaction costs may fall by 50 to 80 per cent.

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 Board found that requisitions were rarely forwarded to purchasing staff sufficiently in advance of required delivery.

UNPD United Nations Procurement Division

See IAPSO procurement statistics at www.iapso.org.

In addition, process efficiency should be factored in to the analysis, especially with respect to procurement cycles, such as the time lag between issuance of a purchase authorization and release of a purchase order or between the latter and the actual delivery of goods and services to end users.

The ease of accessibility to procurement information on the web sites varies from case to case.

UNCITRAL Model Law on Procurement of Goods, Construction and Services (1994)

Full disclosure of procurement costs, particularly life cycle costs of military equipment, could exert the same sort of pressure to justify purchases and raise questions about trade offs in the use of foreign exchange.

(k) Financial contract means any spot, forward, future, option or swap transaction involving interest rates, commodities, currencies, equities, bonds, indices or any other financial instrument, any repurchase or securities lending transaction, and any other transaction similar to any transaction referred to above entered into in financial markets and any combination of the transactions mentioned above

UNDP believes that the formal aspects of reporting on procurement activities and the professional exchange of procurement experiences and best practices are currently within the mandate of IAPWG (recommendation 7).

(17) As regards income from selling repurchase securities, it is required to make disclosure of the beginning balance, ending balance and the agreed repurchase price at maturity of each trading place.

(l) UNCITRAL Model Law on Procurement of Goods, Construction and Services (1994)

C. UNCITRAL Model Law on Procurement of Goods, Construction and Services (1994)

9. UNCITRAL Model Law on Procurement of Goods, Construction and Services (1994)

(j) UNCITRAL Model Law on Procurement of Goods, Construction and Services, 1994.

The result obtained by adopting value appraisal techniques shall be able to reflect the transaction prices that may be adopted in fair dealings on the value appraisal day.

IAPSO Inter Agency Procurement Services Office

(b) Inter Agency Procurement Services Office

These include better procurement planning by requisitioning units, streamlining the procurement process in the Procurement Division and by the Headquarters Committee on Contracts and making necessary changes to the procurement framework, including regulations, rules and refinements in the Procurement Manual.

The procurement plan should indicate whether the items are to be bought in country or internationally, the timing of the purchase, the delivery date required and estimated cost.

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

The description of commodities to be purchased in this operation may appear as food, home appliances, computer parts, car parts or telecommunications devices.

Individuals willing to purchase a firearm from a registered dealer are required to apply for a firearm license prior to the purchase of the firearm.

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

(b) IAPWG should interact more regularly with other entities in the public and private procurement sector as well as with relevant academic bodies in order to keep abreast of practices, innovations and trends outside the United Nations system (para.