For example, some agencies included procurement through national execution.

IAPSO Inter Agency Procurement Services Office

(b) Inter Agency Procurement Services Office

The Inter Agency Procurement Working Group (IAPWG)

Excluding IAPSO.

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.

IAPWG Inter Agency Procurement Working Group

Procurement opportunities

(i) Compatibility of rules and platforms would facilitate sharing of procurement proceedings and outsourcing within the system by enabling agencies to procure on behalf of others (ii) uniformity in the quality of products and (iii) enhanced compliance and easier statistical compilation

UNDP Inter Agency Procurement Services Office (IAPSO) already has an advanced e procurement platform.

Vendor review committees

The Procurement Service was of the view that the requirement to establish local vendor review committees may in certain cases place an additional burden on some missions where staffing capacity is problematic.

(b) Take further steps to sensitize the business community to procurement opportunities within the United Nations system, including

(b) Take further steps to sensitize the business community to procurement opportunities within the United Nations system, including

Although the organizations indicated to the Inspector that they valued IAPSO's inter agency services, it is noteworthy that the procurement business conducted by IAPSO for the same organizations combined (excluding multilateral financial institutions) was just under US 50 million or barely 1 per cent of their aggregate portfolio in 2002.

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.

(b) Take further steps to sensitize the business community to procurement opportunities within the United nations system, including

The Chief Procurement Officer will be responsible for the procurement of goods and services both locally and regionally and will supervise the staff in the Procurement Section in undertaking required administrative actions relating to procurement, including the bidding process.

(a) Inter Agency Procurement Working Group

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Inter Agency Procurement Services Office

For example, in Australia, public procurement is largely governed by government procurement policies, consisting of Commonwealth Procurement Guidelines, Finance Circulars and Procurement Guidance, the latter including a range of web based and printed guidance documents developed by the Department of Finance and Administration to assist agencies and officials to implement the Government's procurement policy.

These included the food safety agency, the public procurement agency, the procurement review board, the market surveillance agency, the information society agency and the institutes for standardization, metrology and intellectual property.

Article 11. Record of procurement proceedings

This original mandate was progressively expanded by decisions of the UNDP Executive Board to encompass a broader range of inter agency procurement functions, such as promoting inter agency cooperation and coordination, harmonization of procurement rules and procedures, establishment of a common vendor database, compilation of procurement statistics, standardization of equipment procurement and serving as secretariat to IAPWG.

This would be similar to the procurement currently done with IAPSO on vehicles, with the World Health Organization (WHO) on HIV test kits, and with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and WFP on telecom equipment.

D. Computerisation of the procurement system

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

Deficiencies in procurement, including lack of planning

Subsequent chapters are reserved for agency acquisition regulations that implement or supplement FAR.

Some members of CEB are in favour of accelerating the implementation of IAWPG's training project, and that IAWPG and the Inter Agency Procurement Services Office (IAPSO) should join their efforts in the organization of training programmes on procurement for the benefit of the United Nations system as a whole, and in this process, draw upon best practices and the experiences of public and private sector procurement.

This would virtually rule out outsourcing to a centralized service.

(iii) Including the issue of Diversity of sources of procurement as an agenda item at the annual meetings of the Inter Agency Procurement Working Group

(iii) Including the issue of Diversity of sources of procurement as an agenda item at the annual meetings of the Inter Agency Procurement Working Group

(iii) Including the issue of diversity of sources of procurement as an agenda item at the annual meetings of the Inter Agency Procurement Working Group

UNOPS procurement office is in the same building with IAPSO in Copenhagen.

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

Source IAPSO

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.

Implementation of the strategic deployment stocks, including the functioning of the existing mechanisms and the award of contracts for procurement

Implementation of the strategic deployment stocks, including the functioning of the existing mechanisms and award of contracts for procurement

The difference is important in terms of enhancing the institutional authority and effectiveness of IAPWG in inter agency procurement matters.

While these measures to some extent helped streamline procurement operations at United Nations Headquarters, they are, however, still to percolate down to other major duty stations, including field offices, and to the collective membership of the Inter Agency Procurement Working Group (IAPWG).

Thus IAPSO's UNWebBuy demonstrates the possibilities and opportunities that e procurement represents for the organizations.

UNICEF finds that merging procurement services of various agencies into a single procurement facility is not feasible.