Rationalization of procurement practices

Practices under some domestic procurement regimes

Procurement practices within the United Nations system

Procurement practices within the United Nations system

Public sector procurement

Public procurement and management of public finances

There may sometimes exist rules and regulations regulating public procurement issued by various agencies handling public procurement.

JIU REP 2004 9, Procurement practices within the United Nations system.

Procurement practices within the United Nations system (JIU REP 2004 9)

Procurement practices within the United Nations system (JIU REP 2004 9)

In China, ERAs are open only to members of the local online public procurement bidding system maintained by local public procurement centres.

See also article 72 of the Public Procurement Law of the Republic of Montenegro requiring the publication of annual public procurement assessment reports.

See, in China, the Shanghai Interim Measures for the Management of Online Public Procurement Bidding, article 22 the Shunyi District of Beijing Interim Measures for the Management of Online Public Procurement Bidding, article 20 and the Liuzhou City Rules of Implementation for Public Procurement through Online Procurement , article 22.

The EU Public Procurement Directive, article 38 (6).

This analysis suggests the need to further rationalize procurement practices of the organizations.

See, e.g., the EU Public Procurement Directive, annex VIII.

Notes with appreciation the progress achieved in the harmonization and streamlining of procurement practices

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

We have established an independent public procurement authority and introduced regular public expenditure tracking systems.

See, e.g., in China, the Shanghai Interim Measures for the Management of Online Public Procurement Bidding, articles 22 and 27 the Shenzhen City Interim Measures for the Management of Online Public Procurement Bidding, article 31 the Zhuhai City Interim Measures for the Management of Online Public Procurement Bidding, article 29 and the Hefei City Interim Measures for the Management of Online Public Procurement Bidding, article 25.

See the Zhejiang Province Interim Measures for the Management of Online Public Procurement Bidding, article 8 the Shanghai Interim Measures for the Management of Online Public Procurement Bidding, article 6 and the Xuzhou City Interim Measures for the Management of Online Public Procurement Bidding, article 8.

41. Requests the United Nations development system to strengthen its procurement systems, guided by best practices, and to progressively rely on national systems for procurement

Capacity building in public procurement agencies in the recipient countries

See, e.g., the Public Procurement Law of Poland (article 80(2)) and, in China, the Zhejiang Province Interim Measures for the Management of Online Public Procurement Bidding, article 22.

Electronic publication of procurement related information study of national, regional and international practices with the publication of procurement related information not covered by the Model Law

Several articles, primarily article 5 (public accessibility of legal texts), were intended to promote public accessibility of rules regulating public procurement.

(d) Improving budgetary and expenditure processes, procurement and concessions practices and the Sierra Leone revenue base

During its twenty ninth meeting, the Inter Agency Procurement Working Group (IAPWG), of which UNFPA is an active member, considered the JIU draft report on procurement practices.

(f) Recent developments in the area of public procurement issues arising from the increased use of electronic communications in public procurement note by the Secretariat (A CN.9 WG.I WP.31)

(d) Evaluation and strengthening of institutions, public service management and the management of public finances, including public procurement, and the private sector

The amount of information regulating public procurement that is made available to the public varies from jurisdiction to jurisdiction depending on legal systems and traditions, in particular the sources, form and nature of domestic rules and procedures regulating procurement, as well as the level of transparency in public procurement in a given jurisdiction.

International Cooperation and the Reform of Public Procurement Policies. www.evenett.com working revisedevenetthoekman.pdf

Speakers concurred on the importance of preventive measures, including the promotion of integrity in the public sector, the adoption of regulations on conflict of interest, as well as modern and transparent budgetary, accounting, auditing and procurement practices.

UNICEF agrees with the issue of electronic procurement and notes that the best benchmark for measuring progress would be other public procurement organizations that have been successfully implementing e procurement.

See, in China, the Shanghai Interim Measures for the Management of Online Public Procurement Bidding , article 19 and the Zhejiang Province Interim Measures for the Management of Online Public Procurement Bidding, article 22.

Publication of procurement related information not covered by the Model Law study of national, regional and international practices

See Arrowsmith S., Electronic reverse auctions under the EC public procurement rules current possibilities and future prospects, 11 Public Procurement Law Review, No. 6, 2002, pp. 299 330 (originally prepared for Achilles Information Ltd.).

UNDP believes that the formal aspects of reporting on procurement activities and the professional exchange of procurement experiences and best practices are currently within the mandate of IAPWG (recommendation 7).

In reporting such practices in his 2000 report on procurement reform, the Secretary General noted that only UNESCO and UNHCR practise some form of preferential treatment in their procurement activities.

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.

One area in which such studies could be fruitful, however, is public procurement.

See, e.g., the Shanghai Interim Measures for the Management of Online Public Procurement Bidding, article 17 and the Interim Measures for the Management of Online Public Procurement Bidding of Shunyi District of Beijing, article 15.

(b) IAPWG should interact more regularly with other entities in the public and private procurement sector as well as with relevant academic bodies in order to keep abreast of practices, innovations and trends outside the United Nations system (para.

In September, Chairman Bryant signed into law the Act creating the Public Procurement and Concessions Commission, which contains provisions aimed at improving government procurement procedures.

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