Each organization has its own procurement manual.

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

Such cooperation may include carrying out common procurement actions together, or the Tribunal entering into a contract in reliance on a procurement decision of a United Nations organization, or requesting a United Nations organization to carry out procurement activities on behalf of the Tribunal.

It would seem that IAPSO is at present the only organization in the procurement system to have successfully automated its entire procurement process.

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.

Only three organizations reported that procurement was performed in 2002 on their behalf by another sister organization.

Procurement refers to the acquisition of goods and services by any individual or organization (public, private, international, etc.).

Table 2 suggests that the organization of the procurement function within the United Nations system is far from optimal.

The executive heads of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), ITU and the Universal Postal Union (UPU) should bring their separate specialized procurement units under a single system of accountability for procurement operations, in particular in the case of relatively low procurement volumes (para.

The Inspector however understands that substantive legal aspects of procurement are best handled by the legal counsel of the organization concerned, which would therefore call for improved coordination between the office of legal counsel and procurement units earlier in the procurement process, before contracts are concluded.

That significant growth in expenditures was, however, not accompanied by efficiency measures in the system wide organization and operation of procurement services, with the exception of procurement reforms at United Nations Headquarters in the 1990s.

(iii) when the proposed procurement contract is the result of cooperation with an organization of the United Nations system, pursuant to rule 110.16

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For UNFPA, large spending was not contracted through other agencies and 4.8 per cent of the procurement value of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) was contracted through another organization.

Following upon the recommendations of a 1994 report by the High Level Group of Experts on Procurement, which conducted an in depth review of procurement practices of the United Nations, the Organization has pursued intensive procurement reform almost on a continuous basis over the past ten years, under the close guidance of the General Assembly and the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ).

The growing need to provide technical support to public procurement institutions in the recipient countries in order to enable them to perform direct local and international procurement and use scarce public funds efficiently is partly linked to the fact that transparency in government procurement is now on the Doha Development Agenda of the Fourth World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference, as one of the so called Singapore issues .

At UNDP, procurement staff also receives training on legal aspects of procurement.

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Government procurement

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

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.

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

UNDP supports such a procurement policy and has incorporated it into the Procurement Manual.

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C. Procurement workshops

E. Procurement guidelines

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However, the scope and thrust of this report did not allow for any detailed inter organization comparison of procurement quality variables and process efficiencies similar to the analysis of productivity and cost efficiency shown in Table 3, which the Inspector has used as one example of how procurement performance could be measured.

About 20 per cent of such procurement is performed by field based peacekeeping procurement units.

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.

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.

Most of the organizations currently use e procurement for displaying or posting procurement information on their web sites, including procurement guidelines, and for communicating with suppliers and clients.

(a) The Registrar is responsible for the procurement functions of the Tribunal, shall establish all its procurement systems and shall designate the officials responsible for performing procurement functions.

The libraries have made groundbreaking progress in joint procurement of these costly resources by using the United Nations System Electronic Information Acquisition Consortium to negotiate subscriptions at a lower cost to the Organization.