In China, ERAs are open only to members of the local online public procurement bidding system maintained by local public procurement centres.

A literal application of the principle of lowest acceptable bid would mean that preference should be given to direct procurement from manufacturers where this latter option proves less costly than local procurement.

The delegation for peacekeeping procurement raises the level of delegation to 1 million for the procurement of core requirements , essential goods and services which by their nature, or owing to market conditions (e.g. prices fixed by legislation or government regulations), lend themselves to local procurement.

In addition, generic and topic specific procurement handbooks and manuals are often prepared by central or local authorities, but could also be issued by procuring entities or agencies responsible for maintaining government procurement websites.

37. Encourages the international community to support the local economy as a measure for long term stability and countering narcotics and, in this respect, to explore possibilities for enhancing local procurement

The public procurement system could be a practical instrument in the hands of municipalities to tender contracts to local small scale service providers.

Decentralization of procurement from the central to the provincial level required training the staff in how to tender with contractors and procure local materials.

In the first lane, the organizations could borrow a leaf from UNHCR's procurement policy, which aims deliberately to stimulate and strengthen the supplier markets and institutions of local communities hosting refugees without prejudice to the integrity of basic procurement standards and procedures.

United Nations Local Missions (Peacekeeping missions) with own procurement staff, excluding other field based entities such as regional economic commissions and information centres data from UNPD web site.

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.

One case that caught the Inspector's attention concerns UNHCR's procurement guidelines for its Implementing Partners requiring that the economies of refugee hosting countries be supported by giving preference to local procurement of supplies and services readily available locally and in the quality required at competitive prices.

The growing need to provide technical support to public procurement institutions in the recipient countries in order to enable them to perform direct local and international procurement and use scarce public funds efficiently is partly linked to the fact that transparency in government procurement is now on the Doha Development Agenda of the Fourth World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference, as one of the so called Singapore issues .

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Mr. Ho O Bom (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) said that the Ministry of Procurement and Food Administration was a central government organ that ran local and district food distribution centres.

At UNDP, procurement staff also receives training on legal aspects of procurement.

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Thirdly, it should considerably facilitate procurement reform and the pooling of procurement services.

The amounts obtained by either form of local administration can be considerable, in many cases worth millions of United States dollars. Portions of the revenue are used for the procurement of arms and ammunition.

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.

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

UNDP supports such a procurement policy and has incorporated it into the Procurement Manual.

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7. Invites the relevant international organizations to take appropriate steps, consistent with the principle of efficient and effective procurement and with the agreed measures for procurement reform, in order to broaden access for interested local and regional vendors and to facilitate their participation in the international assistance efforts for reconstruction, recovery and development of the region

7. Invites the relevant international organizations to take appropriate steps, consistent with the principle of efficient and effective procurement and with the agreed measures for procurement reform, in order to broaden access for interested local and regional vendors and to facilitate their participation in the international assistance efforts for the reconstruction, recovery and development of the region

(c) Long lead procurement times and delays in the delivery of a variety of equipment such as office furniture, medical supplies, security and safety equipment by both local contractors and through United Nations system contracts

About 20 per cent of such procurement is performed by field based peacekeeping procurement units.

Unlike WFP where a separate food procurement unit and manual would seem justified by the highly specialized and even complex requirements of food procurement and delivery, specialized procurement units operating under different systems of accountability might not represent optimal use of procurement resources, particularly in cases of relatively low procurement volume.

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.

Most of the organizations currently use e procurement for displaying or posting procurement information on their web sites, including procurement guidelines, and for communicating with suppliers and clients.

(a) The Registrar is responsible for the procurement functions of the Tribunal, shall establish all its procurement systems and shall designate the officials responsible for performing procurement functions.