1.193 All requests for procurement will have been fulfilled according to the required specifications, on time and within established procurement schedules.

The procurement regulations may set out a minimum time period for this purpose.

Lead time for the procurement of SDS equipment varies from 30 to 360 days.

At the same time, there are challenges that need to be overcome in meeting time sensitive electoral needs in procurement, recruitment and security.

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.

The Inspector was informed that e procurement systems could compress process time cycles from four weeks to four days.

It could not be established at the time of the review whether UNIDO actively monitored and reported on the length of time to complete a procurement cycle.

Further, in view of the absence of staffing benchmarks to date, it is difficult to establish which procurement volume would justify full time specialist procurement staff in the field offices, and perhaps even at Headquarters.

Once the common procurement management system has been developed, the exchange of data will be possible on a real time basis via the Internet, giving further efficiencies and better oversight of the Secretariat's global procurement activities.

As part of the effort to reduce the lead time for contract letting, the UNDP Office of Legal and Procurement Services launched online access to the Advisory Committee on Procurement throughout UNDP from 1 January 2005.

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This rate is affected by notice and preparation time reimbursement from missions to finance replenishment procurement lead time the size of order batch sizes stock levels of critical and long lead time items and mechanisms of deployment and stock rotation.

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

Moreover, there are a number of one time costs still to be incurred and a need to take advanced procurement action in view of the long lead time necessary for a number of items.

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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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ILO considered that purchasing of specialized services involved technical, legal and logistical knowledge and was much more time consuming than off the shelf procurement of commodities.

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.

Upon receipt of the application documents, the procurement centre will examine and decide, within the period of time set by law, whether to grant membership to the suppliers (see articles 7 9 of the Shanghai Interim Measures for the Management of Online Public Procurement Bidding and article 11 of the Interim Measures for the Management of Online Public Procurement Bidding of Shunyi District of Beijing).

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.

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