4. Commercial, procurement and transportation services

Trade and commerce, material and technical supplies and purchases

Commodity Procurement Section I Commodity Procurement Section II Support Services Section

For a starter, the big money is not in consumer shopping but in business to business commerce.

An enterprise may select suppliers or carry out bulk purchase in a tender offerings manner.

Procurement vendor roster

Procurement vendor roster

(b) Take further steps to sensitize the business community to procurement opportunities within the United Nations system, including

The Commercial Operations Unit is designing a procedure to advertise all its procurement activities on the home page and to make the vendor community aware of the process.

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

Wholesalers collate, store and disburse products.

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(b) International procurement of strategic food commodities

44. Since the Administration had no database of global procurements at Headquarters, it was unable to establish any process for reviewing and comparing procurements arranged from commercial sources against those under letters of assist.

Welcomes the significant level of business acquisition in 2004, demonstrating demand for UNOPS services

In addition, the Board concluded that there were a number of weaknesses in the procedures applied by headquarters purchasing unit, and that the Office could take steps to adopt a more commercial approach to purchasing.

Further requests the Secretary General to issue ethical guidelines without delay for those involved in the procurement process, requests that those guidelines be shared with Member States through the procurement web site, and reiterates its request to the Secretary General for the early adoption of a code of conduct for vendors and a declaration of ethical responsibilities for all staff involved in the procurement process

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.

All Chief Procurement Officers to have the right of direct access to the Director, Procurement Division, on professional matters

ILO considered that purchasing of specialized services involved technical, legal and logistical knowledge and was much more time consuming than off the shelf procurement of commodities.

Until an acceptable arrangement can be reached, some of these services will have to be procured though commercial providers.

(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).

As indicated in annex VI to the report, the volume of procurement orders processed by the Procurement and Transportation Division was 396.4 million in 1995, with 24 Professional and 37 General Service staff in the Commodity Procurement Section.

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

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)).

Fourth, the cost of purchasing raw materials for enterprises has increased.

Total operational expenditure incurred by the those missions during the 2004 05 financial year amounted to 1.5 billion.

As part of this exercise, the Procurement Section has also reportedly utilized the vendor roster provided by the Headquarters Procurement Division.

It would consolidate the results achieved thus far in procurement reform, and lend further recognition and visibility to the procurement profession within the United Nations itself, and by extension, within the common system as a whole.

The Procurement Service engaged in a management review of vendor registration in 2004 in cooperation with the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) and the Inter Agency Procurement Services Office of UNDP, and has joined the United Nations Global Marketplace, the Internet based single gateway for vendor registration.

Current business seminars by UNPD and training initiatives by IAPSO are patently inadequate relative to the task at hand.

(d) Request for brand names at ECLAC trade and brand names were specified in the requisitions, contrary to the provisions of the Procurement Manual (21 cases)

3 bis. The revised article 9 of the Model Law provides that the procuring entity may choose the method by which it will communicate with suppliers or contractors in the procurement process.

It addressed such matters as the issuance of a code of ethics for procurement staff, procurement planning, training, measures to improve lead time, vendor performance reporting and vendor registration.

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.

The Procurement Service has been taking all possible measures to increase procurement opportunities for vendors from developing countries and countries with economies in transition.

It is also developing a common procurement management system, which will improve vendor data integrity.

Where, however, the procurement officer believes that such a supplier should be invited to tender, then the concurrence of the Chief of the Procurement Division must first be obtained.

Thus, the emphasis was changed to the commodity or service being procured rather than on the location of the office or field mission for which it was being purchased.

The Office agrees that procurement performance indicators would be a valuable instrument for the management of staff and the improvement of purchasing in the integrated operations teams.

In addition, cash purchases from local suppliers would replace international procurement of food ration commodities, thereby supporting local economies.

This restructuring of the Commodity Procurement Section has allowed the removal of one level of supervision in the Procurement and Transportation Division, thus flattening the hierarchy and increasing operational flexibility and responsiveness to procurement demands.

(2) expenses on purchasing commercial insurances, securities, stock equities or collections and so on

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.

(v) Advice on commercial activities unrelated to peacekeeping, including contracts and substantial procurement of goods and services, insurance, real property arrangements, intellectual property issues and procurement practices, policies and procedures