Commodity Procurement Section I Commodity Procurement Section II Support Services Section

The income and expenditures relating to procurement services amounted to

Total procurement on behalf of Governments amounted to just US 157 million, or 3.5 per cent of the organizations' aggregate spending in 2002.

(d) The data on procurement expenditure displayed in the previous chapter clearly show wide differences in the distribution of procurement power among IAPWG membership, implying that the subject does not hold the same level of importance for all participants.

The Administration reported one ex gratia payment amounting to 40,000 that had been made to the father of a deceased UNMIK staff member who had lost her life while performing official duties during the financial period ended 30 June 2005.

Administrative Support Services Procurement Section

(3) if the land is assigned, the enterprise shall buy the land use right and pay the assignment fee and

Department of Development Support and Management Services procurement by the Contracts and Procurement Service A 50 945, annex

Procurement constitutes a strategic function of the United Nations and its funds and programmes, which in 2002, together accounted for 85 per cent of total procurement expenditure of the organizations.

The savings were offset in part by additional expenditure pertaining to the acquisition of equipment, procurement action in respect of which was not completed in the previous period owing to long procurement lead times.

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.

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.

The current budget (2004 2005) increases in dollar terms again resulting in even larger procurement spending with a steady state in number of purchase orders to be raised.

There was widespread support for efforts that could be made to assist in measuring performance within an organization's procurement function as well as determining costs of procurement, thereby increasing efficiency and effectiveness.

Place of sale and type of purchases

Goods and services were procured, and payments made, without following the established procedures for procurement and without issuing purchase orders

For example, despite its relatively small procurement expenditure, ITU has 4 separate units engaged in procurement one for in house administration (mostly office supplies and furniture), one for ICT products, one for development projects and yet another for ITU TELECOM exhibition activities, each reporting to a different head of department.

The commission may be payable by the procuring entity, the successful bidder or a combination of both.

The table displays two staffing efficiency measures, the average value procured in 2002 by each staff member (Professional and General Service combined) of an organization's procurement unit, and procurement staff costs as a percentage of procurement spending.

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 former Department for Development Support and Management Services (now part of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs), whose procurement operations are now integrated into the Procurement Division, procured 24 million in 1997, with 35 per cent of that amount from developing countries, up from 29 per cent in 1996.

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

Funding from the biennial support budget compensates IAPSO for its interagency support work performed as the secretariat of the Inter Agency Working Group on Procurement.

(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

(b) Review its procurement operations in the light of the new procurement practices to be introduced by the United Nations Office at Geneva.

UNPD United Nations Procurement Division

See IAPSO procurement statistics at www.iapso.org.

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 subject of green procurement was also raised.

(4) expenses on purchasing residential house or paying realty management fees and so on and

Welcomes the training programmes for United Nations procurement staff that the Procurement Service has initiated, including in the field, and requests the Secretary General to support these programmes and to evaluate and monitor their impact

While not questioning the potential benefits of, and opportunities presented by e procurement noted above, FAO points out that it is seeking to utilize the procurement modules of its broader Oracle Financials applications to automate the process and is investigating the possibility of utilizing Oracle i procurement for frequently purchased items in response to possible increases in local purchase limits.

(The unit of measure should not exceed one ten thousandth of the total military expenditures.

Blank nil or negligible or given under another force group or a higher resource cost category Civil defense is funded by ministry of the interior outlays and is not include din the defense budget

Instrument for standardized international reporting of

The Procurement and Transportation Division was then renamed the Procurement Division, which reflects more appropriately the responsibilities of the Division.

IAPSO Inter Agency Procurement Services Office

(b) Inter Agency Procurement Services Office

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

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

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

JPS Joint Purchase Service

The Inter Agency Procurement Working Group (IAPWG)

As noted in paragraphs 3 to 7 and annex I to document A 52 534 and Corr.1, the Procurement Division was then restructured into two Commodity Procurement Sections, each with four clusters, and one Support Services Section.