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5 October 2016- Opening Forum on Procurement for Innovation at OECD.
OECD, Paris, France
Photo: OECD/Michael Dean
Lt. Governor Anthony Brown brings remarks to participants of MBE Procurement and Business conference. by Brian K. Slack at Largo
This is Figure 3 from Saarinen and Vesalainen (1994). I'll be using it in presentations and blog posts to argue that the Learning Management System (LMS) approach to e-learning is wrong.
In summary, an LMS is a package acquisition. However, I argue that e-learning within universities is not routine. It is and is likely to continue for quite some time, to be speculative.
The diagram suggests that using an LMS to solve a speculative requirement is a high risk strategy.
Timo Saarinen, Ari Vepsalainen (1994) Procurement Strategies for Information Systems, Journal of Management Information Systems, 11(2) 187-208
Lt. Governor Anthony Brown brings remarks to participants of MBE Procurement and Business conference. by Brian K. Slack at Largo
3 May 2019. ADB officials present to business communities an overview of the bank’s new procurement framework and its implementation status.
Opportunities in the Pacific were highlighted, as procurement in the region struggles to attract bidders, particularly new entrants.
Visit the event page for more information on this event and the list of speakers.
In June 2020, UNOPS partnered with the Ministry of Health to procure medical equipment and supplies – including 1 million surgical gowns, more than 100 ventilators, 30,000 COVID-19 tests and 300,000 coveralls, among other items, using $15 million in funding from the World Bank. The items will help strengthen Paraguay's health system during the COVID-19 pandemic.
© UNOPS
Three-wheeled ambulances, known as motorkings, are able to move over rough terrain to transport the sick from their homes in very remote areas to hospitals, where they can receive a better standard of care.
More than 80 ambulances were delivered to improve healthcare services in remote areas of Ghana.
The Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) partnered with UNOPS to procure and distribute medical equipment in the Volta and Upper East regions of Ghana. People in the Upper East Region receive much of their medical care from community-based health services.
The Ghana Health Service’s Community-Based Health Planning and Services is a national strategy to help strengthen the care and services that community health workers are able to offer in some of the poorest districts, while addressing geographic barriers and bringing health services closer to people who cannot otherwise reach them.
© UNOPS/Emmanuel Bobbie
Hospital Universitaire De La Paix. Direct Relief procured medicines specifically requested by our partners on the ground in Haiti. Outside of the organization’s standing inventory, this initial procurement includes local anesthetics, analgesics (acetaminophen, ibuprofen), antibiotics (ceftriaxone, amoxicillin, doxycycline), antiparasitic agents, and water purification tablets.
Our partners have reported that primary health concerns were infection-control and prevention for the many wounded and displaced. For patients receiving treatment for their injuries, basic medicines like analgesics and antibiotics play an important role in their recovery.
Direct Relief is in close touch with partners caring for Haitians affected by the earthquake and is committed to responding to needs as they develop. Donations from individuals, foundations, and companies help make this work possible.
5 October 2016- Opening Forum on Procurement for Innovation.
OECD, Paris, France
Photo: OECD/Michael Dean
Lt. Governor Anthony Brown brings remarks to participants of MBE Procurement and Business conference. by Brian K. Slack at Largo
Chief/Contracting Officer for the Commodity Procurement Branch, Duane Williams (left) explains the meat procurement program to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack in the kitchen of the Agricultural Marketing Service on Monday, Dec. 7, 2009. Washington Post reporter, Jane Black(right), takes notes. Agriculture Marketing Service (AMS) purchases a variety of food products in support of the National School Lunch program and other Federal Feeding programs. These purchases help to stabilize prices in agricultural commodity markets by balancing supply and demand. Some of the foods purchased under these programs include fruits and vegetables, beef and pork, poultry and egg products, and fish.
Lt. Governor Anthony Brown brings remarks to participants of MBE Procurement and Business conference. by Brian K. Slack at Largo
UNOPS is a leading purchaser of vehicles for humanitarian, peacebuilding and development purposes. Subscribers to UNOPS e-procurement portal UN Web Buy can check the emissions data of the cars they buy, such as these police cars in Afghanistan.
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L’UNOPS est un acheteur de premier plan en ce qui a trait à l’achat de véhicules à des fins humanitaires, de consolidation de la paix et de développement. Les utilisateurs du portail d’achats en ligne de l’UNOPS, UN Web Buy, peuvent vérifier les données relatives aux émissions polluantes des véhicules qu’ils achètent, comme dans le cas de ces voitures de police en Afghanistan.
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UNOPS es un importante comprador de vehículos con fines humanitarios, de consolidación de la paz y de desarrollo. Los suscriptores del portal en línea de adquisiciones de UNOPS, UN Web Buy, pueden comprobar los datos sobre las emisiones de los coches que se compran, como por ejemplo estos coches para la policía en Afganistán.
In June 2020, UNOPS partnered with the Ministry of Health to procure medical equipment and supplies – including 1 million surgical gowns, more than 100 ventilators, 30,000 COVID-19 tests and 300,000 coveralls, among other items, using $15 million in funding from the World Bank. The items will help strengthen Paraguay's health system during the COVID-19 pandemic.
© UNOPS
The ODOT Procurement Office acquires all of the goods, services and outsourced work that our agency needs.
Lt. Governor Anthony Brown brings remarks to participants of MBE Procurement and Business conference. by Brian K. Slack at Largo
Lt. Governor Rutherford Virtually Speaks at the State Procurement Officer Graduation by Patrick Siebert at 100 State Circle, Annapolis MD 21401
Trainer of a Public Procurement course at the Management Institute for National Development MIND, Alfonso Fernandez de Castro (left), shares a light conversation with (from 2nd left) Director of Business Development and Communication at MIND, Marlene Campbell; Operations Analyst of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Sasha Shirley; Senior Director of the Procurement and Asset Policy Unit of the Ministry of Finance and Public Service, Cecile Maragh; and Acting Deputy Financial Secretary, Garcia Brown. The occasion was the start of the 14-day training course today (September 20), at MIND’s Old Hope Road headquarters in St. Andrew.
Suriname receives its first COVID-19 vaccines through the COVAX Facility
26 Mar 2021
Paramaribo, Suriname. March 26, 2021 (PAHO/WHO) — Suriname today received 24,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines through the COVAX Facility, a global effort co-led by the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), the Gavi Vaccine Alliance, UNICEF, the World Health Organization (WHO), and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO).
The arrival marks a historic step toward ensuring the equitable distribution of COVID-19 vaccines worldwide, in the largest vaccine procurement and supply operation in history. This delivery is part of the first phase of deliveries for Suriname, and more vaccines are expected to arrive successively during 2021. According to the first round of COVAX allocations, Suriname is expected to continue receiving doses through May until it reaches 79,200, the amount specified by COVAX. Subsequent doses are expected to be received during the second half of the year with total doses deployed to cover up to 20% of the population.
PAHO’s Revolving Fund, which is responsible for acquiring and delivering COVID-19 vaccines on behalf of the countries of the Americas that are part of the COVAX Facility, shipped 24,000 doses of the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine, manufactured by SK Bioscience of South Korea. The vaccines arrived today at the Johan Adolf Pengel International Airport, in Paramaribo.
The delivery of the first tranche of vaccines through the COVAX Facility with the support of PAHO is a proud moment for Suriname in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The country is very committed to securing vaccines for the people of Suriname to protect the most vulnerable and reduce deaths. We will continue to work with the country to support vaccination as well as other public health and social measures that are known to help stop the spread of COVID-19, protect health services, and save lives."
Dr. Karen Lewis-Bell, PAHO/WHO Representative in Suriname
The arrival of these first vaccines will serve to protect priority groups and those most at risk of becoming infected with the virus, such as health workers and older adults.
“With the arrival of these vaccines, Suriname will be able to vaccinate more of the vulnerable people. We are very glad to receive the vaccines and believe that it will help us in our goal to minimize admissions to hospitals and deaths due to COVID-19. The vaccination program of the country is being strengthened and we are thankful that the COVAX Facility and PAHO could secure these vaccine doses for Suriname,” said Dr. Rakesh Sukul, Acting Director of Health, Ministry of Health, Suriname.
Since the first case of COVID-19 was reported in Suriname, the country has recorded 9,085 confirmed cases and 177 deaths as a result of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, according to WHO and Suriname's official COVID-19 dashboard.
“We have all felt the effect of COVID-19 on our lives, but the impact has been especially harsh on the lives of children who have not been able to attend class in person for almost the entire past year; children who were not able to go out and play and socialize, and the overall impact the pandemic has had on children’s mental health...so, when we talk about the COVAX vaccines arriving in Suriname, we need to recognize what this also represents for the children – it is hope! Hope that we can bring this pandemic under control; hope that we can start the work to build a better, safer, and healthier future for everyone and every child,” said Mr. Nicolas Pron, Area Representative, UNICEF Guyana and Suriname.
Jamaica was the first country in the Caribbean to receive doses of COVID-19 vaccines through the COVAX Facility on March 15. Suriname is the second one. In total, fifteen Caribbean countries are expected to receive just over 2.1 million doses of COVAX vaccines by May. These include Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, the Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago. Six of these countries (Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, St. Lucia, and St. Vincent & the Grenadines) will receive the vaccines free of charge.
COVAX seeks to provide vaccines for at least 20% of the population of each participating country during 2021. In this first round of vaccine allocation, all COVAX participating countries will receive doses to vaccinate an average of 2.2% of their population. The only exceptions are small island developing States, which will receive an allocation of vaccines to cover between 16 and 20% of their population, due to the high logistical cost of delivering small quantities of vaccines.
Until vaccination is widespread among the population, basic public health measures remain the basis of the pandemic response. For public health authorities, this means continuing to conduct screening, contact tracing, isolation, supervised quarantine, and quality care. And for people, it means continuing to practice physical distancing, hand hygiene, the use of masks, adequate ventilation of indoor environments, and avoidance of crowded spaces.
COVAX, the vaccines pillar of the Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator, is co-led by the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance Gavi) and the World Health Organization (WHO) – working in partnership with UNICEF as a key implementing partner, as well as civil society organizations, vaccine manufacturers, the World Bank, and others. In the Americas, the PAHO Revolving Fund is the recognized procurement agent for the COVAX facility.
The ODOT Procurement Office acquires all of the goods, services and outsourced work that our agency needs.
In 2011, UNOPS procured millions of health products for its partners, including more than 800,000 long-lasting insecticide treated bednets, such as these bought with funding from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria in Myanmar.
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En 2011, l’UNOPS a effectué l’achat de millions de produits médicaux, notamment plus de 800 000 moustiquaires de lit imprégnées d’insecticides de longue durée, comme celles-ci, achetées grâce au financement du Fonds mondial de lutte contre le sida, la tuberculose et le paludisme au Myanmar.
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En 2011, UNOPS adquirió millones de productos sanitarios para sus asociados, incluidos más de 800.000 mosquiteros tratados con insecticida de larga duración, tales como los comprados con financiación del Fondo Mundial de Lucha contra el SIDA, la Tuberculosis y la Malaria en Myanmar.
The ODOT Procurement Office acquires all of the goods, services and outsourced work that our agency needs.
Since 2016 – in an effort to improve the public health system – UNOPS has been working together with Guatemala's Social Security Institute (IGSS) to improve transparency in public procurement, beginning with the acquisition of medicines and medical supplies, and later supporting wide-range institutional reform for IGSS.
Through this, UNOPS designed policies on sustainable procurement, infrastructure and project management, and trained 600 staff in public procurement and supply chain management.
The project further delivered significant savings for the government of Guatemala. Through 13 public tenders, UNOPS helped stock 114 hospitals and health centres across the country with 568 types of medicines, equaling around 450 million doses of medicine. Through the use of transparent and efficient procurement processes, the government estimated savings of around $270 million, reporting around 57 per cent savings on the purchase of medicines and 34 per cent savings on surgical medical supplies since they began working with UNOPS.
An estimated 3.2 million Guatemalans are benefiting from improved healthcare as a result. Importantly, the project has also left a legacy of transparency in a country with a high risk of corruption in public procurement and has helped lay the foundation for a more efficient and transparent future for procurement by IGSS.
With funding from IGSS, UNOPS collaborated with the UN Development Programme to help build the new hospital in Quetzaltenango.
© UNOPS/John Rae
This image is excerpted from a U.S. GAO report:
www.gao.gov/products/GAO-15-717
INTERNATIONAL TRADE: The United States and European Union Are the Two Largest Markets Covered by Key Procurement-Related Agreements
Notes: The figure shows the average annual government total expenditures and procurement in the United States and 60 countries that are parties to the Agreement on Government Procurement, U.S. free trade agreements, Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations, or Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership negotiations, 2008 through 2012. Figure is not drawn to scale. The reported value for government procurement is the mean of a GAO estimate that ranged between $4.3 trillion and $4.6 trillion.
Acting Deputy Financial Secretary, Garcia Brown (left), greets Trainer of a Public Procurement course at the Management Institute of National Development (MIND), Alfonso Fernandez de Castro (right), while Senior Director of the Procurement and Asset Policy unit of the Ministry of Finance and Public Service, Cecile Maragh (centre), makes the introduction. Occasion was the start of the 14-day training course today (September 20), at MIND’s Old Hope Road headquarters in St. Andrew.
In June 2020, UNOPS partnered with the Ministry of Health to procure medical equipment and supplies – including 1 million surgical gowns, more than 100 ventilators, 30,000 COVID-19 tests and 300,000 coveralls, among other items, using $15 million in funding from the World Bank. The items will help strengthen Paraguay's health system during the COVID-19 pandemic.
© UNOPS
While in china this past December, I observed these seemingly folded objects in a pagoda and a restaurant, respectively. I was unable to procure instructions, as nobody was around in either case; the one on the left seems to be made from a long strip of cloth, crimped into a spiral then gathered at the back. I saw several things like it, so there may be some sort of diagram out there somewhere. The yellow object on the left (which has, surely, seen better days!) was part of a shrine, so I didn't get the chance to examine it very closely... but here's a picture, anyway. It's from the Wild Goose Pagoda in the city of Xi'an, if any of you want to look it up... you have to climb the pagoda, though. It's on the third or fourth level if I remember right.
Sadly, aside from these two, I didn't see anything other than the pervasive napkin-fold, and only one of those was something I hadn't seen before... but I don't eat out much, so that doesn't mean anything. I reverse-engineered it in about three minutes, so I should be able to fold another one if anybody were interested.
On a different note, I realized that this is my 100th photo post on flickr... yay!!! But I'm a cheapskate and don't want to buy a Pro account, so I am tenatively announcing that I am in the process of designing/obtaining a website for my origami, and hope to have at least an image archive up by the end of the month, and hopefully a full-fledged website by March (that would be new year's resolution number one).
So, Happy New Year everybody! And may it be a good one. Catch you all later.
Kristine N. Holmes, Procurement Analyst ACC-Warren
Air National Guard, Lieutenant Colonel, 127th Force Support Squadron Commander
Selfridge Air National Guard Wing Ball, 21 April 2012
The Procurement Department honored its top performers in small business performance and cost savings at the December 2017 End of the Year Celebration.
This panel explored policy issues around facilitating SMEs participation in public tenders and providing small business with growth opportunities arising from delivering contracts for municipalities and local government.
The event also launched a research report describing policy dilemmas regarding engaging local small businesses in bidding for public contracts and showcasing competitive online bidding systems in Cyprus, Italy and Ukraine that successfully created new business opportunities to local SMEs.
Moderator
Michel Nussbaumer
Director, Legal Transition, EBRD
Speakers
Marie-Anne Birken
General Counsel, EBRD
Rea Georgiou
Accountant General, Treasury
Philippos Katranis
Head of Public Procurement Directorate, Treasury
Ioannis Kokkoris
Professor, Queen Mary University London
Anna Carolin Müller
Legal Affais Officer, WTO Secretariat
Charlotte Ruhe
Head of SME F & D, ASB, EBRD
Oleksandr Starodubtsev
Director, Public Procurement Department, Ministry of Economic Development and Trade