The development of infrastructural services sectors was of crucial importance to economic development, but most African services suppliers suffered from limited resources and lack of competitiveness.

(a) The services to be procured are available only from a limited number of suppliers or contractors, provided that it solicits proposals from all those suppliers or contractors or

Furthermore, TNCs do not necessarily choose local suppliers to provide them with products and services.

The existing rosters of suppliers are often old and outdated and are not often used anyway there is little systematic vetting or approval of the suppliers, no effective monitoring and evaluation of suppliers apos performance and no safeguards against late supply of goods and services.

Audiovisual services The suppliers of audiovisual services in most developing countries are continuing to lose their market share to products supplied through major distribution channels.

The question of fair competition may emerge in the near future, given that the latter suppliers of services are dominant providers of the universal infrastructure platform, which they could abuse in order to gain advantage in the market where they act as suppliers of content tourism services.

(c) Promoting competition among suppliers and contractors for the supply of the goods, construction or services to be procured

12. The identification of potential suppliers of goods and services in developing countries is instrumental in increasing procurement from these sources.

A suppliers roster was not maintained by the Division for Administrative and Information Services nor did they have access to the United Nations vendors roster or to OPS suppliers information

Original suppliers are those that provide products, services, and information that add value for customers and other stakeholders.

25H.24 The estimate ( 16,900) relates to travel of staff of General Services for the purpose of visiting suppliers and for one liaison visit to Headquarters by the Chief of General Services.

The OPS suppliers apos roster contains about 2,500 suppliers.

By the end of March 1994, the OPS suppliers roster contained approximately 2,500 suppliers.

OPS maintains a roster of consulting firms for services, and a vendors listing for goods and supplies that provides basic details of suppliers.

Gas suppliers

(e) Suppliers of unfilled munitions

A request for tenders (RFT) is a formal, structured invitation to suppliers, to bid, to supply products or services.

The database contains active United Nations suppliers and facilitates easy access to verified procurement sources for goods and services.

Furthermore, the Government could help organize, and be supportive of, SMEs when they negotiate with foreign suppliers of transport services (e.g. foreign tour operators).

The main market players related to distribution are consumers, retailers, wholesalers and other intermediaries, as well as suppliers of goods and other services.

There is evidence that in many cases countries provide either general or sector specific export support to their services suppliers.

Suppliers rosters are not often used and there is no systematic vetting or approval of the suppliers.

Article 6. Qualifications of suppliers and contractors

There are thousands of suppliers in there.

quot (b) Tourism professionals and suppliers of tourism and travel services are asked to refrain from encouraging the use of tourism for all forms of exploitation of others

(a) Payments to suppliers

Suppliers and import monitoring

Companies can target local suppliers of goods and services, provide training and technical assistance to help them attain necessary standards of performance, and help fund local initiatives.

This has resulted in the preparation of country specific catalogues, circulated widely in the United Nations system, providing information on additional potential suppliers of goods and services.

(a) The goods, construction or services, by reason of their highly complex or specialized nature, are available only from a limited number of suppliers or contractors or

As suppliers or potential suppliers of nuclear material and equipment, their objective was to reach a common understanding on

135. One member indicated that special efforts should continue to be made to identify and expand the roster of potential suppliers of goods and services in developing countries.

In practice, the procurement units rely on their experience to judge the financial standing and viability of suppliers and only occasionally use the services of credit referencing agencies.

In addition, the 2001 National Crusade for the quality of health services is endeavouring to improve the technical and interpersonal quality of health services, by setting out a list of entitlements for beneficiaries of the services, a system of complaints and suggestions and formal procedures for the approval of service suppliers.

(c) Specific critical equipment suppliers

(iii) Suppliers rosters should be updated and reviewed regularly to reflect the performance, technical competence and financial stability of the suppliers

(c) Suppliers roster should be updated and reviewed regularly to reflect the performance, technical competence and financial stability of the suppliers

Under the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), Members shall enter into consultations at the request of any other Member with a view to eliminating certain business practices of service suppliers restraining competition and thereby restricting trade in services.

In choosing investment locations, direct investors also look for complementary productive resources in the form of infrastructure, a trained workforce, local banking and commercial services, suppliers and subcontractors.

(iii) Promoting and strengthening commercial capacities of local suppliers

Article 35. Prohibition of negotiations with suppliers or contractors

Procurement policies should apply to suppliers from all regions and should be geared towards increasing the participation of suppliers from developing countries.

(ii) Because of the technical character of the goods or construction, or because of the nature of the services, it is necessary for the procuring entity to negotiate with suppliers or contractors

(a) Information on specific foreign suppliers

Prepaid expenses and advances to suppliers