IAPWG Inter Agency Procurement Working Group

(a) Inter Agency Procurement Working Group

Working group on procurement common services

The Inter Agency Procurement Working Group (IAPWG)

Procurement progress report of Working Group I.

The Procurement Service had also been working with the Inter Agency Procurement Working Group to implement the common procurement training programme as expeditiously as possible.

(c) In consultation with the United Nations Development Group and the Inter Agency Procurement Working Group, pursue initiatives within predetermined time frames to improve inter agency procurement activities (para. 78)

The Board noted that the Inter Agency Procurement Working Group had launched a common procurement certification scheme on 1 January 2005.

Not specifically noted. (Note The Working Group on Procurement also studied low value procurement.) Some missions have larger imprests, as required.

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

Annotated provisional agenda for the eighth session of Working Group I (Procurement)

The Procurement Division, in addition to implementing its own reform processes is now actively and closely involved with the Working Group on Procurement.

Report of Working Group I (Procurement) on the work of its eighth session

11. The Group of Experts recommended the development of an annual procurement plan.

Implementation of recommendations of the High level Group of Experts on Procurement Rec.

In 1994, a High level Group of Experts on Procurement conducted a study of the procurement process and issued a report in December 1994.

The Administration agreed with the Board's recommendation to, in consultation with the United Nations Development Group and the Inter Agency Procurement Working Group, pursue initiatives within predetermined time frames to improve inter agency procurement activities.

(iii) Including the issue of Diversity of sources of procurement as an agenda item at the annual meetings of the Inter Agency Procurement Working Group

(iii) Including the issue of diversity of sources of procurement as an agenda item at the annual meetings of the Inter Agency Procurement Working Group

(iii) Including the issue of Diversity of sources of procurement as an agenda item at the annual meetings of the Inter Agency Procurement Working Group

The working group has developed harmonized regulations to govern procurement activities procurement rules are being developed for submission to and approval by responsible governing bodies.

(ii) Inviting the Inter Agency Procurement Working Group to hold more meetings in developing countries

(ii) Inviting the Inter Agency Procurement Working Group to hold more meetings in developing countries

The Procurement Working Group of the Task Force on Common Services at United Nations Headquarters

(ii) Inviting the Inter Agency Procurement Working Group to hold more meetings in developing countries

The United Nations Inter Agency Procurement Working Group and the International Training Centre have launched an Organization wide procurement certification project to ensure that all United Nations procurement practitioners are professionally certified in their respective disciplines.

Encourages the Inter Agency Procurement Working Group to continue its efforts to produce comprehensive and generally applicable statistics encompassing the procurement activities of all United Nations entities

The Working Group acknowledged the importance of appropriate procurement planning and contract administration for overall effective functioning of procurement and fulfilling the objectives of the Model Law.

During its twenty ninth meeting, the Inter Agency Procurement Working Group (IAPWG), of which UNFPA is an active member, considered the JIU draft report on procurement practices.

Encourages the Inter Agency Procurement Working Group to continue its efforts to produce comprehensive and generally applicable statistics encompassing the procurement activities of all United Nations entities

31. Notes the activities of the Inter Agency Procurement Working Group and of the Common Services Procurement Working Group on enhancing the transparency and increasing the harmonization of procurement practices, and requests the Secretary General, in consultation with the executive heads of the United Nations funds and programmes, to continue work in this regard

Notes the activities of the Inter Agency Procurement Working Group and of the Common Services Procurement Working Group on enhancing the transparency and increasing the harmonization of procurement practices, and requests the Secretary General, in consultation with the executive heads of the United Nations funds and programmes, to continue their work in this regard

Notes the activities of the Inter Agency Procurement Working Group and of the Common Services Procurement Working Group on enhancing the transparency and increasing the harmonization of procurement practices, and requests the Secretary General, in consultation with the executive heads of the United Nations funds and programmes, to continue their work in this regard

Additional long term contracts are being explored with the members of the Inter Agency Procurement Working Group.

The Working Group noted the advantages of publishing information on forthcoming procurement opportunities, such as transparency in the procurement process through reducing cases of ad hoc and emergency procurements, and, consequently, less frequent recourse to less competitive methods of procurement.

(d) Report of Working Group I (Procurement) on the work of its sixth session (A CN.9 568)

(e) Report of Working Group I (Procurement) on the work of its seventh session (A CN.9 575)

An annex is provided listing the status of recommendations of the High level Group of Experts on Procurement.

In addition, the recommendations of the High level Group of Experts on Procurement have been fully acted upon.

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.

At its sixth session, the Working Group considered inter alia the use of electronic reverse auctions in public procurement.

As such, an optimal, cost effective configuration of procurement services would require the latter group of organizations to outsource as much as possible to the first group in order to further strengthen its core procurement competence, or to develop and share core competence facilities, especially for organizations based in the same area, with the benefit of sharing procurement staff costs.

During the reporting period, OIOS conducted an audit to assess progress made in procurement reform by implementing the recommendations made by the High Level Group of Experts on Procurement in its December 1994 report.

On the sharing of procurement performance benchmarks and best practices (recommendation 1) and the concept of lead procurement agency (recommendation 2), it should be noted that since 2004, the HLCM has incorporated the work of the Inter Agency Procurement Working Group (IAPWG) into the HLCM agenda.

Achievements of the Headquarters Procurement Working Group in the harmonization of procurement related regulations and rules and contracting tools have apparently not yet been replicated at the level of UNON and other field duty stations.