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In addition, a moratorium could be placed on any restrictive policies relating to outsourcing (e.g. government procurement).

For example, in Australia, public procurement is largely governed by government procurement policies, consisting of Commonwealth Procurement Guidelines, Finance Circulars and Procurement Guidance, the latter including a range of web based and printed guidance documents developed by the Department of Finance and Administration to assist agencies and officials to implement the Government's procurement policy.

After that, the Inspector visited most of the organizations to obtain more specific information concerning their procurement policies and practices.

(b) Review existing policies, procedures and guidelines to determine whether they are sufficiently flexible to cater for the requirements of a computerised procurement process.

Partly as a result of this policy, the harmonization of procurement policies, procedures and practices across the organizations is still to make decisive headway.

Aside from the multilingual policies of some organizations, having procurement manuals in the three working languages of the organizations is an important practical requirement in cases of decentralized procurement operations, in particular the United Nations and its funds and programmes.

This means that with the exception of IAPSO which carries out procurement activities for a diversified constituency of clients including non governmental and civil society organizations, procurement operations of the organizations are essentially geared towards their own administrative and field programme requirements, and this commonality should in principle justify a move towards ever more integrated procurement policies and services.

Its meetings additionally provide an opportunity for the business community of the host country to gain greater exposure to the procurement policies and activities of the organizations.

It is recognised that the organisation has well developed policies, rules and regulations to ensure that adequate controls are in place to manage procurement activities effectively and efficiently.

It also welcomed the recommendations for greater joint procurement, post implementation benefit audits, efforts to ensure implementation of information security policies and improved ICT audits, costing and staff training.

The executive heads of the organizations should ensure that procurement manuals exist in the working languages of the secretariats of the organizations in line with the relevant multilingual policies of the organizations concerned, in order to foster the integrity of the procurement process in all field offices (para.

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The Global Fund, the World Bank and other parts of the UN system, and other multilateral institutions and international partners will engage in a process to identify procurement and supply management bottlenecks, and to agree upon concrete steps for the harmonization and alignment of procurement and supply management policies and procedures.

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

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The problem therefore lies in procurement and financial regulations and rules, which allow for no affirmative procurement actions in favour of the developing countries even though some of the Organization's Member States promote such policies in their domestic domain for the benefit of disadvantaged population segments, such as women and minority groups.

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

But success in fighting corruption entails more than just good procurement procedures (avoiding, for instance, single source non competitive bidding). Many other policies and procedures can be enacted that reduce incentives for corruption.

Speakers underlined the need for a coherent policy on trade and aid, as well as the need to assess the impact of aid policies, for example, procurement rules on the quality of aid.

Consequently, no special policies and rules have yet been devised specifically for this method of procurement that requires a special regulatory regime encompassing issues of security, electronic signatures, system integrity, backup arrangements, etc.

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.

In the pipeline are the plans for the formalization of implementation procedures to support the green procurement' policy (paragraph 362) by June 2006 the revision of the SSA guidelines to align them with current procurement policies (paragraph 326) and implementation of a strategic sourcing module in Atlas to institutionalize supplier performance evaluation (paragraph 312).

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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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.

The US needs to refocus the US China trade agenda toward expanded market access in these and other areas pushing back against Chinese policies and government procurement practices that favor domestic production and indigenous innovation. Some progress has been made, but more is needed for example, getting China to join the World Trade Organization s Government Procurement Agreement.

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.