Record of procurement proceedings

Article 11.

(1) Except as otherwise provided by this chapter, a procuring entity engaging in procurement of goods or construction shall do so by means of tendering proceedings.

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.

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.

Vendor review committees

Administrative delay in the procurement process.

Article 11. Record of procurement proceedings

Greater transparency has also been introduced into the procurement process to ensure that purchases are properly authorized and justified.

The Inspector was informed that e procurement systems could compress process time cycles from four weeks to four days.

The Working Group noted the advantages of publishing information on forthcoming procurement opportunities, such as transparency in the procurement process through reducing cases of ad hoc and emergency procurements, and, consequently, less frequent recourse to less competitive methods of procurement.

(6) Procurement regulations may establish procedures for maintaining and accessing the record of the procurement proceedings, including measures to ensure the integrity, authenticity, accessibility and, where appropriate, confidentiality of information, the traceability of steps in the procurement process, and the interoperability of record retention systems.

(i) bis In procurement proceedings involving the use of a procurement method pursuant to article 19 bis, the fact that electronic reverse auction was held.

The review is conducted at the initial phase of the procurement process.

The aim of such a provision is to provide transparency in the proceedings.

The Tribunal has completed training for the individuals responsible for requisition in the procurement and contractual management processes.

The splitting of requisitions allowed bypassing of the normal procurement procedures and scrutiny by the committees on contracts.

o In several instances, the Mission s Procurement Section interfered in the requisitioning process, resulting in splitting of requisitions and lengthy delays in processing.

Proposed draft text for the revised Model Procurement Law to accommodate the use of electronic communications during the procurement process

Legal advice is given throughout the development and procurement processes from the development of a weapon concept through to the procurement of new weaponry.

(c) To allow for sufficient time for each stage of the procurement process

Article 11 of the Model Procurement Law requires the procuring entity to maintain a record of the procurement proceedings containing certain minimum information, and provides for that information to be made accessible.

It would seem that IAPSO is at present the only organization in the procurement system to have successfully automated its entire procurement process.

Procurement policy and procedures manuals

Simplification and streamlining of procurement processes

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

3. The audit team found that, in several instances, the Mission s Procurement Section had interfered in the requisitioning process, resulting in splitting of requisitions and badly delaying the processing of requisitions.

It was observed that the UNCITRAL Model Law on Procurement of Goods, Construction and Services (the Model Law ) contained procedures aimed at achieving competition, transparency, fairness, economy and efficiency in the procurement process and that it had become an important international benchmark in procurement law reform.

The Procurement Services should investigate ways in which the procurement plan can be enhanced as a tool in the management of the entire procurement process.

A procuring entity may conduct a price justification procedure in any procurement, including one conducted by means of an electronic reverse auction (which may be suspended for the purpose), and should set out all relevant information in the record of the procurement proceedings required to be maintained under article 11.

When the Model Law was prepared in the 1990s, the then Working Group worked on the basis that clear and readily accessible laws and regulations relating to procurement would promote transparency and create predictability and confidence in the procurement process.

It was not exactly clear which requisition for purchase date begins the actual procurement process.

The splitting of requisitions allowed bypassing of the normal procurement procedures and of scrutiny by the Local and Headquarters Committees on Contracts.

Proposed revision to article 11 of the Model Law, addressing the record of procurement proceedings

Record of procurement proceedings

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

For example, some agencies included procurement through national execution.

The Procurement Division, however, agreed that global statistics would aid in procurement planning.

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

The Board reviewed the new procurement control procedures and the cost effectiveness of the procurement operation.

Direct procurement of drugs by the recipient countries is also possible through IAPSO's e commerce platform.

(f) Review its procurement operations in the light of the new procurement practices to be introduced by the United Nations Office at Geneva (para. 40).

IAPSO, currently the most advanced entity in e procurement, reports that all its procurement functions are carried out using electronic methods and all purchase orders are issued in its UNWebBuy e commerce application.

(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