Organization chart of the Procurement Division

(3) Technical, organizational and legal expertise should be made available upon request to support non G8 countries in technology procurement processes.

In the meantime, the Procurement Service will organize a second round of the advanced field procurement training programme to upgrade skills of procurement staff in the field missions.

Procurement at international organizations

Review of organizational structure of Procurement Division

It focuses on strategic issues most likely to contribute to enhancing the cost effectiveness of the procurement process within and among the organizations, namely cooperation and coordination, electronic procurement and capacity building.

Such harmonized regulations will provide a platform for joint procurement, outsourcing of procurement requirements from one organization to another, or use of decisions of one organization by another.

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

Chapter II focuses on the fundamental issue of the cost effectiveness of the organizations' procurement services.

(c) In consultation with the United Nations Development Group and the Inter Agency Procurement Working Group, pursue initiatives within predetermined time frames to improve inter agency procurement activities (para. 78)

(f) Performance bonds again had not always been obtained from contractors in accordance with procurement regulations, resulting in potential losses to the United Nations (paras.

C. Organized criminal groups

Procurement is arguably one of the organisation's critical activities.

Each organization has its own procurement manual.

The Inter Agency Procurement Working Group (IAPWG)

The organizations with highly decentralized procurement operations in over 100 different locations, such as UNDP and UNICEF, not included in the table, would logically have more procurement staff overall than organizations with mostly centralized operations.

IAPWG Inter Agency Procurement Working Group

The nature of organized criminal groups

These principles and stages are summarized in IAPSO's Common Guidelines for Procurement by Organizations in the United Nations system .

(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.

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

A few organizations have no procurement information at all on their web sites (ITU, WMO and WHO).

A current organizational chart for the Procurement Division is attached as an annex to the present report.

The new organizational structure for procurement was commodity based, with the Commodity Procurement Section being organized into various clusters, each being responsible for an identifiable range of commodities.

The fact that terrorist groups and organized criminal groups interact has meant that each group learns from the other.

(b) Preventive measures aimed at disbanding organized criminal groups and terrorist groups

OIC Group (at the expert level)

Work thus far has been focused on Headquarters in New York and among the procurement oriented organizations at Copenhagen.

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.

Such cooperation may include carrying out common procurement actions together, or the Tribunal entering into a contract in reliance on a procurement decision of a United Nations organization, or requesting a United Nations organization to carry out procurement activities on behalf of the Tribunal.

This means that with the exception of IAPSO which carries out procurement activities for a diversified constituency of clients including non governmental and civil society organizations, procurement operations of the organizations are essentially geared towards their own administrative and field programme requirements, and this commonality should in principle justify a move towards ever more integrated procurement policies and services.

The data for these organizations may not necessarily suggest that they constitute a benchmark for the procurement profession, in the absence of comparisons with public and private sector procurement organizations.

Usually the procuring organization also publishes an extract of the results on its website.

The same penalty shall apply to anyone who conducts the association, raises or is behind the raising, organizes or is behind the organization of gangs.

In general, however, with the exception of IAPSO, e procurement is still at the initial stage of development in the vast majority of the organizations, although ILO reports that it has commenced implementation of an Enterprise Resource Planning platform, including an ILO oriented procurement module, with direct e commerce ordering facilities.

In this capacity he she will supervise the work and training of the procurement staff, undertake procurement planning, oversee the preparation and implementation of UNOMIG procurement policy and guidelines and the development of a procurement team at UNOMIG.

a. Criminal activities of the organized criminal group

(h) Two of the recently established missions did not have a procurement plan (paras.

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.

IAPWG meetings held every two years in the developing countries and the business seminars organized in the developing regions by the United Nations Procurement Division (UNPD) appear to have afforded opportunities for increased participation of recipient countries in the procurement business of the United Nations system.

Accordingly, IAPSO's reform experience and results (as well as those of other organizations that have streamlined their procurement services in recent years, such as UNPD) should be shared in detailed and systematic fashion with other organizations at future meetings of IAPWG.

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

At present, the most universal procurement specific international instrument, the World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA), does not address ERAs.

The UNDG ITF procurement page on the website continues to provide detailed information on procurement opportunities and contract awards.

The objective should read To ensure efficient, effective and diversified procurement opportunities and high quality procurement services for the Organization.