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

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(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)

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.

3. The audit team found that, in several instances, the Mission s Procurement Section had interfered in the requisitioning process, resulting in splitting of requisitions and badly delaying the processing of requisitions.

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

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.

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.

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.

The splitting of requisitions allowed bypassing of the normal procurement procedures and scrutiny by the committees on contracts.

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

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

(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 paragraph 113, the Board recommended that UNICEF monitor more closely the target arrival date of emergency local orders and the date of their issuance.

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The splitting of requisitions allowed bypassing of the normal procurement procedures and of scrutiny by the Local and Headquarters Committees on Contracts.

Turning to the question of procurement, he said that, in 2004, Working Group I had begun its consideration of novel issues in the area of public procurement with a view to updating the Model Law on Procurement of Goods, Construction and Services.

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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.

(1) (Subject to approval by (the enacting State designates an organ to issue the approval),) a procuring entity may engage in procurement by means of an electronic reverse auction in accordance with article 47 bis and ter, in the following circumstances

(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.

During its interim audit in April 2005, the Board noted that there were still delays in excess of 100 days in both the time between the order dates and the dates that purchase orders were approved, and the time between the requisition dates and the requisition approval dates.

(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.

10. The efficiency of procurement activities is promoted by continuously updating and improving contractual instruments and the contract process as well as by the check and balance review of all procurement actions over 100,000 by the Procurement Review and Advisory Committee.

(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.

40. The Board noted that the Purchase and Transportation Section of the United Nations Office at Geneva is currently considering new procurement practices to provide more flexibility for small purchases below an agreed threshold and a volume purchase agreement to supply all other such purchases on the basis of a monthly invoice.

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.

UNDP will progressively introduce mandatory procurement plans by September 2007 (para. 374), strengthen its ability to monitor and address cases where purchase orders are split to avoid compliance with procurement thresholds (para. 365) and implement granular Atlas user security roles to restrict the ability of a single person to both create and approve a purchase order (para.

22. The Advisory Committee recalls that the Board of Auditors has consistently found in the past an over dependence on suppliers recommended by the requisitioning units.10 The Committee shares with the Board the view that this practice undermines the principle of separation of responsibilities between requisitioning and procurement units.

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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All purchase orders are subject to general conditions.