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No additional resources are required for the purchase of vehicles.

The Atlas system has facilitated the integration of planning, projects, human resources, procurement and inventories.

Table 3 attempts to illustrate the cost effectiveness of the organizations' procurement services in 2002 by using the human resource factor, which in most cases represents over 95 per cent of the costs of procurement services or total procurement cost.

In 2002 for example, total investment in procurement training amounted to only 0.01 per cent of aggregate procurement expenditure, with the majority of organizations allocating no resources for that purpose.

E. Procurement, asset and administrative management

It also envisages the use of UNICEF procurement services, where appropriate, to promote the efficient and increased use of resources for essential commodities for children.

(f) The ongoing procurement reform process has placed additional demands on the Procurement Division s scarce resources by way of

(g) In general, the new procurement procedures resulted in a quicker, improved service however, the new procedures did not allow UNITAR to take full advantage of the information, technical expertise and resources of the Purchase and Transportation Section of the United Nations Office at Geneva.

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.

Trade and commerce, material and technical supplies and purchases

United Nations libraries will need to continue to invest considerable resources in the planning, acquisition and management of technological facilities.

The Procurement Service has also drafted, in consultation with the Office of Human Resources Management and the Office of Legal Affairs, a Declaration of ethical responsibilities .

As evidence, procurement in 2002 represented about US 4.6 billion or 37 per cent of the organizations' combined regular and extrabudgetary resources.

This reduction came about by a 10 per cent resource decrease in the area of procurement and logistics, resulting from a reformed management structure.

The Board examined the procurement of goods, the management of human resources and the management of information technology.

Projects, such as the procurement of a new document management system, are assigned resources for hardware, software and training.

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.

UNDP IAPSO also has an advanced e procurement platform and is expecting a global e procurement solution in 2005 as part of the roll out of its ERP system.

(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

(a) To promote awareness of the adverse effects of abnormally low tenders, to provide training to procurement officers, and to ensure that the procurement entity has adequate resources and information, including reference or market prices where possible

The mission assets module provides the link to the procurement system and includes procurement information such as requisition and purchase order numbers, original purchase price and the length of serviceable life.

EC 48 SC CRP.5 Audit Follow up Procurement and Asset Management

The Procurement Service has been working with the Office of Legal Affairs and the Office of Human Resources Management to promulgate ethical guidelines and a Secretary General's bulletin on rules governing the staff engaged in procurement activities, which include a declaration of ethical responsibilities to be signed by all staff engaged in procurement activities.

In addition, it and other USDA agencies agreed with the DoD to purchase GPS units to collect georeferences for natural resource data to be included in a GIS.

It also moved to diversify its income base through increased procurement training and consultancy services, mostly in developing countries.

IFPMM International Federation of Purchasing and Materials Management . VII

These other resources pertain to support costs for activities of the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization shown under other resources relating to programmes, and the procurement services shown under other resources relating to reimbursement.

Child victims and witnesses

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 Committee recommended at the time that a management review be conducted of the staffing and organizational structure of the Procurement Division in relation to all sources of financing.

Ensured the implementation of the recommendations of the ARMS Report, including the preparation of Job Descriptions and recruitment of staff and procurement of resource requirements.

87. It is proposed to maintain the current numbers of support account posts provided for the Section, which has 29 posts funded from the account 1 P 5 (Senior Procurement Officer), 8 P 4 (Procurement Officers), 9 P 3 (Procurement Officers) and 11 General Service posts (procurement assistant secretary).

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

Article 11. Record of procurement proceedings

E and F (available at http www.eva.state.va.us dps Manuals docs VPPA.pdf).

Other resources included co financing (trust funds, thematic trust funds, cost sharing and other funds) the junior professional officers programme and procurement services.

Although the High Level Committee on Management (HLCM) of the United Nations System Chief Executives Board for Coordination (CEB) decided in June 2003 to request IAPWG to report to it on procurement matters, no real attention was paid previously by ACC to procurement activities in the same way it coordinated approaches to human and financial resources management or information and technology issues.

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(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

44. Since the Administration had no database of global procurements at Headquarters, it was unable to establish any process for reviewing and comparing procurements arranged from commercial sources against those under letters of assist.

Purchase orders for procurement services which are also a strategy for leveraging additional resources for children amounted to 224 million, of which 77 per cent was for vaccines.

Established in 1978 by UNDP at a time when it was the main source of funds for technical cooperation projects implemented by the specialized agencies, IAPSO's original mandate was to harmonize the procurement practices of the organizations relating to field projects with special focus on the purchase of equipment, in particular vehicles, at lowest possible cost.