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 Procurement Division, however, agreed that global statistics would aid in procurement planning.

The Procurement Services should investigate ways in which the procurement plan can be enhanced as a tool in the management of the entire procurement process.

Requisitioning departments, in cooperation with the Procurement Division, should develop and submit annual procurement plans for standard procurement (AM97 71 4 11).

Published in Procurement Update and on the Procurement Division s website (http www.un.org depts ptd).

Procurement activities in peacekeeping missions

Delayed administrative action in procurement.

Aviation procurement in peacekeeping missions

The way government does its procurement affects the format of electronic auctions in public procurement.

In the meantime, the Procurement Service will organize a second round of the advanced field procurement training programme to upgrade skills of procurement staff in the field missions.

EU current directives in the field of public procurement were not written with ERA procurement technique in mind.

The Chief Procurement Officer will be responsible for the procurement of goods and services both locally and regionally and will supervise the staff in the Procurement Section in undertaking required administrative actions relating to procurement, including the bidding process.

Procurement from national production in 1996.

Administrative delay in the procurement process.

Procurement in offices away from Headquarters

Implementation status as noted in the 1996 procurement status reporta Progress as described in the 1997 procurement status reportb

The Procurement Division was reorganized, procurement staff received training, the delegation of procurement authority has been adjusted and new procurement guidelines were finalized.

The Procurement Division was reorganized, procurement staff received training, the delegation of procurement authority has been adjusted and new procurement guidelines were finalized.

16. Annual procurement plans should be obtained from all field offices and procurement planning should be strengthened further to ensure economy and efficiency in procurement planning.

(c) in the area of procurement, the UNCITRAL Model Law on Procurement of Goods, Construction and Services

29. A new procurement manual is in preparation to reflect this recommendation and other procurement reform procedures.

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Increased cooperation and coordination, but annual procurement plans are not noted. Annual procurement plans should be developed by Headquarters departments and field missions whose logistical and administrative structures are well established this should be done in cooperation with the Procurement Division. The procurement planning requirement should be detailed in the procurement manual.

A number of procurement workshops were held in 2002 and 2003, which focused on active and dynamic procurement.

(b) The plan should indicate the method of procurement, in line with the Procurement Manual and existing guidelines.

See, e.g., in China, the Liuzhou City Rules of Implementation for Public Procurement through Online Procurement, article 19.

In the Board s view, procurement delays arose as a result of weak procurement planning at the global level.

Ways of using ERAs in procurement proceedings

The implementation of procurement reform in the

Deficiencies in procurement, including lack of planning

Evolve standards of measuring efficiency in procurement

In this capacity he she will supervise the work and training of the procurement staff, undertake procurement planning, oversee the preparation and implementation of UNOMIG procurement policy and guidelines and the development of a procurement team at UNOMIG.

The recommendations contained in the OIOS report (A 50 945, annex) concerning procurement handled by the Contracts and Procurement Service have been addressed by the transfer of procurement responsibilities to the Procurement Division of the Department of Management.

In this context, increasing emphasis should be placed on training in electronic procurement (e procurement) methods and on technical assistance in support of capacity building for public procurement agencies in the developing countries and countries with economies in transition.

This is a problem with the current Reality Procurement System that will be corrected in a future procurement system.

(d) The procurement training budgets did not always include the training needs of requisitioners involved in the procurement process

5. Requests the Secretary General, in the context of his next report on procurement reform, to evolve and provide the standards for measuring efficiency of procurement, taking into account the optimal duration of the procurement decision making process, the total workload in the Procurement Division and the cost efficiency of procurement, against which the performance should be measured

Unlike WFP where a separate food procurement unit and manual would seem justified by the highly specialized and even complex requirements of food procurement and delivery, specialized procurement units operating under different systems of accountability might not represent optimal use of procurement resources, particularly in cases of relatively low procurement volume.

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