Each organization has its own procurement manual.

Identification of an Organization wide application for procurement

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

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

At present, the most universal procurement specific international instrument, the World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA), does not address ERAs.

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.).

Its indiscriminate use however suggests inadequate procurement planning, which is not in the best interest of the Organization.

At the beginning of a procurement process, the IHL section of the staff of the chief of the armed forces is consulted by the organization in charge for the procurement project.

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

The Board also carried out a review on an organization wide basis of the procurement of goods and services.

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.

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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.

(d) Identify an Organization wide application for procurement, which would be used at Headquarters, offices away from Headquarters and peacekeeping missions

The increase is due to the planned integration of a software package used in parts of the Organization for procurement activities.

An advance planning action is undertaken to enable the Organization to take advantage of procurement lead times and consequential price efficiencies.

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.

The executive heads of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), the International Telecommunication Union (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.

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(c) Procurement of a type excluded by the procurement regulations.

Moreover, each organization has its own legislative body, mandate and priorities and utilizes its own ERP system in meeting its procurement needs.

Page 20. The Board was informed that during the year, a case of fraud had occurred in procurement costing the Organization 9,620.

All procurement activities are computer based using the Reality procurement system.

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