(d) Networking of procurement services

Common procurement services

Thirdly, it should considerably facilitate procurement reform and the pooling of procurement services.

(a) Procurement and Logistics Services

Cost effectiveness of procurement services in 2002 10

IAPSO Inter Agency Procurement Services Office

(b) Inter Agency Procurement Services Office

Procurement of goods and services through letters of assist

Total procurement of goods and services, 1998 2002 3

Table 3. Cost effectiveness of procurement services in 2002

Objective The main objective of Procurement Services is to ensure efficient and cost effective procurement of goods and services required for carrying out of all UNIDO activities.

UNICEF finds that merging procurement services of various agencies into a single procurement facility is not feasible.

UNDP Inter Agency Procurement Services Office (IAPSO) already has an advanced e procurement platform.

Programme Component G.3.1 Procurement Services 96

Programme G.3 Procurement and Logistics Services

The report's 10 recommendations therefore focused on enhancing the productivity of procurement services, through measures such as benchmarking practices increased training of procurement staff strengthening of common procurement services for co located organizations, especially in New York, Geneva, Vienna, Nairobi and field duty stations and the introduction of electronic procurement methods or e procurement.

Programme G.3 Procurement and Logistics Services 96

(c) Common procurement services and other cooperative arrangements

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.

Table 3 attempts to illustrate the cost effectiveness of the organizations' procurement services in 2002 by using the human resource factor, which in most cases represents over 95 per cent of the costs of procurement services or total procurement cost.

Establishment of a unified system of reporting and accountability for procurement services

(l) UNCITRAL Model Law on Procurement of Goods, Construction and Services (1994)

C. UNCITRAL Model Law on Procurement of Goods, Construction and Services (1994)

The income and expenditures relating to procurement services amounted to

The Programme is divided into two components G.3.1 Procurement Services and G.3.2 Logistics Services.

UNICEF agrees to benchmark its procurement services with United Nations and other public procurement services, considering each organization's specificities to determine whether the level of its handling charge for cost recovery is appropriate.

Building on its long history of supply support, both within country programmes and increasingly as procurement services support, UNICEF will offer a mix of programme and procurement services to Governments as a unified basket of support.

The objective should read To ensure efficient, effective and diversified procurement opportunities and high quality procurement services for the Organization.

UNICEF is now providing procurement services for ARVs in 39 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

Possible revisions to the UNCITRAL Model Law on Procurement of Goods, Construction and Services issues arising from the use of electronic communications in public procurement

Possible revisions to the UNCITRAL Model Law on Procurement of Goods, Construction and Services drafting materials addressing the use of electronic communications in public procurement

Possible revisions to the UNCITRAL Model Law on Procurement of Goods, Construction and Services issues arising from the use of electronic communications in public procurement

Procurement services activities continue to be an important component of the trust fund accounts.

Possible revisions to the UNCITRAL Model Law on Procurement of Goods, Construction and Services drafting materials for the use of electronic reverse auctions in public procurement

Communication from the European Communities, Government Procurement Services, S WPGR W 48.

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

Chapter II focuses on the fundamental issue of the cost effectiveness of the organizations' procurement services.

Procurement staff mobility, including working, coaching or study visits, staff exchanges, loans, secondments and transfers among the procurement services, should be part of the networking agenda.

In paragraph 272, the Board recommended that the UNICEF procurement services benchmark with United Nations and other public procurement services, considering each organization's specificities, to determine whether the level of its handling charge for cost recovery is appropriate.

62 234. Reports of the Office of Internal Oversight Services and financing of the Procurement Task Force

Consideration of proposals for the revision of the UNCITRAL Model Law on Procurement of Goods, Construction and Services

The valid points raised in the preceding paragraph apply by and large equally to all organizations in terms of procurement of goods, works and services, and where procurement performance can be dependent on support services provided by other internal or external units.

The procurement of services and of goods contributed to that increase by 42 and 55 per cent respectively.

It was not clear at the time of the review whether the procurement plan was used in the management, control and review of the procurement of goods and services, as intended.