Procurement and contract management for peacekeeping operations

Procurement and contract management for peacekeeping operations

In 2004, UNOPS reorganized its client service and procurement operations.

3b Operational responsibility for procurement to remain with the Department of Peacekeeping Operations. Not specifically listed in the report. There is increased cooperation between the Department of Peacekeeping Operations and the Procurement Division.

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

Covers activities in the areas of planning, procurement, personnel, communications, transport and air operations.

communications, building management and mail operations, and procurement and transportation (e.g., travel authorizations, visa

Accordingly, special attention was given to the procurement operations in the audits conducted subsequently.

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.

The Field Administration and Logistics Division, Department of Peacekeeping Operations, is also responsible for such procurement planning on behalf of peacekeeping operations.

An external consulting firm, commissioned by the Administration, reviewed the internal controls of the Procurement Service, covering only Headquarters generated procurement, including for peacekeeping operations.

(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).

The Procurement Service is working together with the Department of Peacekeeping Operations to improve the skills and capacity of the peacekeeping missions in procurement and contract management.

UNITAR should review its procurement operations in the light of the new procurement practices to be introduced by the United Nations Office at Geneva (para. 10 (f)).

UNDP currently encourages procurement from those countries by decentralizing procurement operations to its field offices, especially for in country and in region procurement supportive of direct execution and national execution modalities implemented mostly through these offices.

In New Zealand, for example, heads of procuring entities are free to manage their departments' procurement operations.

(x) Report of the Secretary General on procurement and contract management for peacekeeping operations (A 58 761)

(y) Report of the Secretary General on procurement and contract management for peacekeeping operations (A 59 688)

Procurement Division at Headquarters Not applicable Over 200 000 Department of Peacekeeping Operations (letters of assist only)

28. The Procurement Division and the Department of Peacekeeping Operations concurred with the above observations and recommendations.

To facilitate data exchange between Headquarters and the peacekeeping missions, the Procurement Service has been working with the Department of Peacekeeping Operations to develop a common procurement management system.

The Board reiterates its previous recommendation that the Department of Peacekeeping Operations enforce the use of a procurement plan as a tool to facilitate effective and efficient procurement management.

UNOPS reorganized its client service and procurement operations and decentralized staff out of New York into regional structures.

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The recommendation was aimed at providing flexibility to the procurement process, with special consideration given to field operations.

However, ITU outsourced as much as 58.7 per cent of its 2002 procurement operations to the private sector and ILO did likewise for 8 per cent of its total procurement.

In paragraph 274, the Board encouraged the Department of Peacekeeping Operations, in conjunction with the Procurement Service, continue to monitor and address causes for excessive procurement lead times at peacekeeping missions.

In order to facilitate data exchange between Headquarters and the peacekeeping missions, the Procurement Service has been working with the Department of Peacekeeping Operations to develop a common procurement management system.

(d) The governance structure demonstrated several areas of weakness, including insufficient management reporting and insufficient oversight of procurement operations

The Department of Peacekeeping Operations plays the primary role in the procurement process for new and existing field missions.

Weaknesses in management and control of procurement operations created a climate that may have fostered fraud and financial abuse.

While the application of ICT systems to the procurement process should certainly bring multiple benefits as summarized above, the organizations also have a mandate to strengthen public procurement capacities in the recipient countries so as to enable them to perform direct procurement operations.

3a Functional responsibility for all procurement should be given to the Department of Administration and Management. Under consideration. Increased cooperation and communication between the Procurement Division and the Department of Peacekeeping Operations.

In this respect, and as set forth more fully in paragraph 24 below, the ongoing procurement reform, including the reorganization of the Procurement Division, will address strategic and policy issues as well as procurement operations, thus ensuring an integrated approach to the realization of the enhanced procurement functions within the United Nations.

INTELSAT satellite procurement documentation specifies designs which minimize outgassing and debris generation during transfer orbit deployments and in orbit operations.

Weaknesses in the management and control of procurement operations created a climate that may have fostered fraud and financial abuse.

Thus, enhancing expertise within the organizations in e procurement systems and operations should equip procurement officials with additional knowledge and skills needed to boost similar capacities in the recipient countries, as explained below.

The executive heads of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), ITU and the Universal Postal Union (UPU) should bring their separate specialized procurement units under a single system of accountability for procurement operations, in particular in the case of relatively low procurement volumes (para.

9. Also requests the Secretary General to ensure that, on matters relating to procurement in the field, the Department of Peacekeeping Operations follows the principles of objectivity and impartiality while advising the Procurement Division

(d) Streamlined procurement procedures for peacekeeping operations in the field, including specific information on mechanisms for strengthened monitoring, oversight and accountability

Audits of the UNHCR emergency operations in Burundi, Chad and the Sudan identified a need to improve procurement and general management.

Procurement by the Field Administration and Logistics Division of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations, including missions procuring under delegations of authority, amounted to 122 million, or 4 per cent of total United Nations system procurement.

The Information Technology Operations Unit has also established enhanced disaster recovery services and absorbed an increased workload in procurement and training activities.

While these endeavours have significantly improved the procurement operations of the United Nations, the reforms were mostly confined to the United Nations.

Document A 59 688 contained an update of the report covering the latest developments in procurement and contract management in peacekeeping operations.