Annual Statistical Report 2006 • Procurement of Goods & Services • All Sources of Funding • Procurement from DAC Member Countries • International & National Project Personnel • United Nations Volunteers • Fellowships Published: July 2007 by UNITED NATIONS SYSTEM Annual Statistical Report 2006 Procurement of Goods and Services • All Sources of Funding Procurement from DAC Member Countries International & National Project Personnel United Nations Volunteers Fellowships July 2007 Copyright © 2007 by the United Nations Development Programme 1 UN Plaza, New York, NY 10017, USA All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior permission of UNDP/IAPSO. TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................................... 1 GLOASSARY OF TERMS ...................................................................................................... 2 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: ALL SOURCES OF FUNDING (UN SYSTEM)............................ 3 PROCUREMENT OF GOODS AND SERVICES - ALL SOURCES OF FUNDING Procurement of goods by country of procurement and services by country of head office ................................................................................................... 8 Procurement by UN agency ....................................................................................... 11 Procurement of goods by country of procurement and source of funding...................12 Procurement of goods by UN agency and country of procurement ........................... 15 Procurement of services by contractor’s country of head office and source of funding....................................................................................................36 Procurement of services by UN agency and contractor’s country of head office ...... 39 Major Equipment ordered by UN agency .....................................................................54 Major Subcontracts placed by UN agency .................................................................122 Top Ten Items/Product Groups procured by UN agency .......................................... 190 Summary of Project Personnel by Nationality .......................................................... 196 PROCUREMENT FROM DAC MEMBER COUNTRIES ............................................ 199 Australia ................................................................................................................... 200 Austria ...................................................................................................................... 201 Belgium .................................................................................................................... 202 Canada..................................................................................................................... 203 Denmark .................................................................................................................. 204 Finland...................................................................................................................... 205 France ...................................................................................................................... 206 Germany .................................................................................................................. 207 Greece ..................................................................................................................... 208 Ireland....................................................................................................................... 209 Italy ........................................................................................................................... 210 Japan ....................................................................................................................... 211 Luxemburg ............................................................................................................... 212 Netherlands .............................................................................................................. 213 New Zealand ............................................................................................................ 214 Norway ..................................................................................................................... 215 Portugal .................................................................................................................... 216 Spain ........................................................................................................................ 217 Sweden .................................................................................................................... 218 Switzerland .............................................................................................................. 219 United Kingdom ........................................................................................................ 220 United States ............................................................................................................ 221 ANNEXES ..................................................................................................................... 222 1. Abbreviations ............................................................................................................ 223 2. Developing Countries ............................................................................................... 224 3. Industrialized Countries ............................................................................................ 226 INTRODUCTION BACKGROUND The first annual statistical report on procurement by UN agencies in respect of operational activities, pre- pared by the Inter-Agency Procurement Services Office (IAPSO) of the United Nations Development Pro- gramme, was submitted to the 39th session of the General Assembly (Doc. A/39/417) in 1984. By resolu- tion 39/220 the General Assembly established the need for recurrent reporting of such information on opera- tional activities and encouraged organizations of the UN system to co-operate with IAPSO in this important exercise. To obtain more complete reporting on operational activities, data on other components of technical coopera- tion, such as project personnel, United Nations Volunteers and fellowships was included as from 1991. Experience has shown that it has proven very difficult for a great number of agencies and UNDP field office to provide data on personnel components in the required format. Several UN agencies encounter difficulties in apportioning cost of the personnel components in view of insufficient links between administrative and financial records. Resulting in less then representative data being available for presentation in the Annual Statistical Report. PREPARATIONS Statistical data on procurement of goods and services and the personnel components for operational activi- ties are requested from UN organizations. To facilitate collection and compilation of the large number of data, IAPSO provides pro-forma tables available from the IAPSO website or on diskette, together with instructions for completing the reporting requirements. ASR 2006 The 2006 edition of the Annual Statistical Report sees a number of changes to the report structure that are designed to make the report more succinct and improve its usability. The ASR continues to report on procurement under all sources of funding, while the reporting of procurement under UNDP funding has been discontinued. The 2006 report compiles information provided by 29 UN organizations, UNDP now provides a corporate data submission encompassing the procurement of all country offices under the NEX and DEX modalities. Whereas in previous editions the ASR distinguished between UNDP procurement under NEX and DEX and Headquarters the new format reports on UNDP procurement as a whole, thus providing a comprehensive representation of the data. IAPSO relies entirely on the co-operation of the reporting entities and, in general, the responses have been encouraging and the quality of data has steadily improved from previous years. Data collection from UN agencies involves processing of reports on procurement of goods and services received from supply divisions and procurement units. Data on procurement is reported based on country of procurement for goods and country of head office for services. Moreover, procurement orders and contracts for services are reported on the basis of contract amount and not on expenditures incurred. It is, at the present time, not feasible for most UN agencies to report data based on country of origin of goods nor on actual expenditures. Data on procurement of goods and services are based on reports from ECLAC, ESCAP, ESCWA, FAO, IAEA, IFAD, ILO, ITC, PAHO, UN/PS, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNDP, UNDP/IAPSO,UNECA, UNECE, UNFPA, UNHCR, UNICEF, UNIDO, UNOG, UNON, UNOPS, UNOV, UNRWA, UNU, WFP(partial data), WHO, WIPO, WMO and WTO . No data were reported by CTBTO, ICAO, ICTR, ICTY, ITU, UPU. The overall procurement volume of UN Agencies during 2006 increased to USD 9.4 billion from USD 8.3 billion in 2005, representing an increase of approx. 11.4%. Procurement from Developing countries has increased by USD 1.5 billion in absolute terms and in percent- age terms by 11.8 % from the previous year. This increase