orders (in millions of

Procurement second purchase order

The Procurement and Travel Section and other units should be encouraged to prepare procurement plans and the use of blanket contracts expanded.

Total value of purchase order

Subscriptions and standing orders

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

The mission assets module provides the link to the procurement system and includes procurement information such as requisition and purchase order numbers, original purchase price and the length of serviceable life.

Ex post facto purchase order.

The second purchase order, for 0.56 million litres, was funded through a different contribution advice form.

10. Simplified, generic, harmonized financial regulations for procurement have been developed by the Working Group on Procurement under the Task Force.

Procurement first purchase order

(c) Where requisitions are prepared by procurement staff they should be approved by project managers prior to processing and this approval should be formally evidenced (para. 31)

Thresholds in the value of individual purchase orders and contracts determined whether they could be placed without calling for quotes from suppliers (cases up to 25,000 in value), whether they should be subject to competitive bids (cases from 25,001 to 150,000 in value) or whether they should be submitted to the Committee on Contracts for approval (cases above 150,000 in value).

(a) Piecemeal purchases At ESCAP, 1,178 purchase orders were placed for nine categories of items in 1996 1997.

The value of purchase orders increased 66 per cent from US 5.1 million to US 8.5 million in 2002 2003 and the number of purchase orders increased 42 per cent from 403 to 573.

Aggregate procurement value and trends

More than the 56 per cent of the purchase orders (by volume) were for items with a value of less than 30,000.

In 1996 1997, the United Nations Office at Geneva processed 7,663 purchase orders and contracts worth 71.8 million, while the United Nations Office at Vienna processed 791 purchase orders and contracts with a total value of 9.7 million.

For IDC Develop and review an overall hardware procurement plan and review first order of equipment

Develop and review an overall hardware procurement plan and review first order of equipment

The value of such procurement appears limited.

UNOPS considers that this function, which allows changes to be made to payee details, is necessary in respect of its imprest system a generic purchase order is generated to authorize imprest account holders to make use of the funds, then, as the funds are used, individual purchase orders are processed for disbursements on the basis of the approved generic purchase order.

Legal value of procurement contracts concluded electronically (A CN.9 WG.I WP.38 Add.1, paras.

The current budget (2004 2005) increases in dollar terms again resulting in even larger procurement spending with a steady state in number of purchase orders to be raised.

Procurement and contracting

Annual procurement planning

174. Out of the 338 purchase orders issued, approval for 130 (38 per cent) was on an ex post facto basis, indicating that the purchases had been made without prior approval.

(b) Purchase order No. 9613 dated 20 October 1993, for 560,000 litres at 788,918 delivery period, 22 November 1993 to 15 January 1994.

The Department of Management indicated that the capital master plan office agreed with the suggestion of OIOS and was taking steps to close the existing purchase order and issue a new one with one lump sum amount for the remaining value of the contract.

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(b) Purchase orders processed

For example, the processing time for vehicles was reduced by 26 per cent, computer and prefabricated buildings by 30 per cent and generator sets and pharmaceutical products by 54 per cent.

(a) Purchase order No. 9085 dated 13 July 1993, for 1,015,000 litres at 1,505,558 delivery period, 13 August to 25 October 1993

10. The Advisory Committee believes that the staffing levels of the Procurement and Transportation Division, in proportion to the volume of procurement orders, are within an acceptable range.

173. The Board apos s review of the Tribunal s procurement system disclosed that although 338 purchase orders had been issued for the 10 month period ended 31 October 1996, adequate case files had not been kept by the Procurement Section.

The Board reviewed 126 purchase orders with a total value of 56.25 million to examine whether the bids were invited in accordance with the established procedure, whether the number of bids invited was adequate with reference to the value of the purchases and to verify the extent of vendor response.

This approach could also contribute to the achievement of the United Nations procurement policy goals of placing more of its procurement orders in a wider geographical area, including the developing countries.

(xii) Procurement services posting of procurement plans and upcoming procurement opportunities on the Division's website preparation and issuance of tenders presentation of cases to the Headquarters Committee on Contracts, including review of procurement procedures being proposed and conducted by offices away from Headquarters and peacekeeping and other field missions award of purchase orders and contracts and negotiation and execution of contracts for the procurement of goods and services

In its procurement for the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (Habitat) (UNCHS), for 3 categories of stationery, 45 orders were placed in 1997.

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Evolve standards of measuring efficiency in procurement

All purchase orders are subject to general conditions.

The Board recommended, and the Office agreed, that where requisitions are prepared by procurement staff they should be approved by project managers prior to processing and that this approval should be formally evidenced.

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.

The Board also observed, on the subject of procurement for peacekeeping operations, that purchases valued in excess of 188 million were considered on an ex post facto or partially ex post facto basis, and contracts valued at 72.4 million were extended without bidding.