(h) Procurement and supply

UNICEF procurement services and expertise in international commodity purchasing and supply will increasingly enhance its country programme support.

Offshore procurement processed by Supply Division alone reached 637 million, with a further 10.5 million in donations in kind.

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.

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 World Bank and WHO to evaluate progress on the building of national capacity on procurement and supply chain management by September 2005.

In supply operations in 2004, the value of UNICEF global procurement amounted to 802 million (excluding freight), a 15 per cent increase over 2003.

Detail, prioritize, and cost technical support needs, in areas including information and education, care and treatment, monitoring and evaluation, and procurement and supply management

UNICEF has a long history of supply support, both within country programmes of cooperation and increasingly as procurement services support to Governments and development partners.

Partnerships with global funds, UNAIDS, UNFPA, WHO, the World Bank and regional banks will be consolidated to address both technical and procurement supply management issues.

Emphasis will be placed on assisting countries to build capacities for planning, budgeting and procurement of supplies, as well as in country logistics and supply chain management.

The question therefore is how to best balance the policy principle of equitable geographical distribution of supply sources against the requirement of more cost effective procurement operations.

The Global Fund, and the World Bank and other parts of the UN system to jointly report progress on addressing bottlenecks to procurement and supply management by June 2006.

Through the existing World Bank WHO capacity building programme and other initiatives, multilateral institutions and international partners will intensify their efforts to build national capacity on procurement and supply chain management.

Specifically, the Inter Agency Procurement Services Office will make specific and strategic efforts to promote the use of suppliers from developing countries to ensure a wider distribution of supply sources (para.

In addition, UNHCR organizes on a regular basis workshops in the field on the topic supply chain learning programme with the main objective to improve the knowledge on correct procurement activities.

Copenhagen is host to four United Nations system procurement services UNICEF Supply Division which is by far the largest with about 400 staff, IAPSO and UNOPS which share a common building as previously discussed and a small procurement unit operated by the Regional Office of WHO for Europe (WHO EURO).

The web sites are generally linked to those of other procurement services within the United Nations system as well as to the United Nations Global Marketplace, formerly Common Supply Database, maintained by IAPSO.

Secondly, the organizations will have the opportunity to learn from each other by sharing best and worst experiences and jointly developing strategies and tools to make e procurement a mainstream application in supply services.

For example the European Community mandates the use of the Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV) the United States uses other classifications, including the Federal Supply Classification and many large companies may run still other proprietary systems.

The evaluation report should be prepared with the involvement of professionals from the private sector supply industry and discussed by the entire IAPWG membership, which in turn should adopt recommendations for its procurement community as a whole.

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

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Government procurement

Procurement planning

Procurement reform

Procurement report

Procurement opportunities

Procurement experts are first and foremost business professionals with strong skills in communication, negotiation and versatility and possessing sound knowledge of the supply chain, all of which are necessary to effectively manage business processes between suppliers and end users.

ii. Business implications of the multilateral trading system capacity development and service enhancement in the areas of management competency e competency, trade finance, trade law, quality management and standards and export packaging institutional development and training of trainers in the areas of export, purchasing and supply management electronic commerce and computer based supply chain management systems and reform and improvement of public procurement

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.

C. Supply

Water Supply

Energy supply

The Procurement Goldmine

Public sector procurement

Overview of procurement

C. Procurement workshops

E. Procurement guidelines