Today's Submission is : ACP/07/0520
Total Amount: 300,000.00 US Dollar
Status: Approved from Jocelline Bazile-Finley
Status: Approved from Jocelline Bazile-Finley
On ACP Minutes that day - we read:
Additional details:
A short list of law firms from OLA was received and a direct RFP was sent tothe firms.
In in order to have wider coverage and transparency and due diligence, OLPS
made a search and looked for potential law firms on the law site, Legal500
for Law firms with relevant experience.
The RFP was also placed on the UNDP procurement notice. (See attached copy
of the notice)
While the direct email had the names of the parties involved, the
advertisement on the public site was done in a manner to avoid revealing any
information on the parties involved, the location and amount of the conflict
in order to avoid other legal issues.
7 proposals were received by the deadline from the following firms:
Warson Farley and Williams
Simpson Thacher and Bartlett LLP
Wilmer Hale
Baker Mckenzie
Dubarry Le Dourain
Shearman and Sterling
Reed Smith.
The evaluation criteria advertised in the RFP is the two staged evaluation
system whereby only firms who scored minimum of 80% in the technical
proposal will have their financial proposals opened.
At the end of the evaluation which was done by a team of Legal Experts,
3 firms, Reed Smith, Dubarry Le Dourain and Watson and Williams were rejected
as they did not pass the technical proposal.
4 Â firms, Simpson Thacher and Bartlett LLP, Wilmer Hale, Baker Mckenzie and
Shearman and Sterling who passed the technical proposals score of 80% had
their financial bids opened.
Out of the four responsive proposals, Baker & Mackenzie had the lowest cost
and was thus recommended by the evaluation committee for the contract. (See
attached evaluation report for details)
But the truth is different - thanks to UNDP Watch insiders at the Technical Evaluation panel on this bid - we got the table of technical evaluation which reads completely differently. And as per the table the winner is not even close a REAL WINNER.
Ahlenius and Appleton of (Procurement Task Force) are now very silent. They don't even dare to raise their voice. Because Appleton's contract is at stake. 
How can you Ms. Ahlenius and you Mr. Appleton, call yourself Untied Nations Staff with ethical standards and you have no .....guts to investigate the UNDP. Well you might say that UNDP doesn't fall under the jurisdiction of OIOS. But in this case this submission was evaluated from the UN Secretariat's OLA.
Not only this - but as you can see the evaluation was only signed by half of the evaluation committee - making this evaluation and submission and approval - NOT VALID.
How can you Jocelline Bazile-Finley approve such a submission which has not even half of the signatures on the evaluation sheet ? How can you approve such submission where the winner is ranked third in both technical expertise and value. In what ethics you call yourself a UN staff - and approve this? We thought you were different - from the rest at BoM (Bureau of Management).
But this is not your fall - you are all under the pressure of Kemal Dervis and Peri Johnson. They are directly responsible of these crimes committed with tax-payers money. With our money.
What is disturbing is the fact that United States Mission to the UN (USUN) is still silent. It seem that Mr. UNTAI - Mark Wallace - has lost his tongue. The USUN has a constitutional mandate to watch and monitor the United Nations on how they spend the US Tax-payers money. The failure to do so, will have extreeme implications and can and is affecting the US national security as well.
At the end the UNDP Watch Calls upon Tuzla Tersanecilik ve Turizm A.S. and their lawyers to bring this case to Federal Court of the United States of America as well as in Switzerland. We believe that now is a time for all those victims of the UN to join forces in a class-action lawsuit against the United Nations. the Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice should hear the voice of all those victims and allow the removal of UN Immunities so a Federal Court can hear these cases. Only then the UN can be held accountable and responsible - otherwise we should all stop out funds to this criminal organization.
Day Two Call: UNDP Watch Calls for immediate firing of Kemal Dervis and Peri Lyn Johnson on the ground of incompetency, false testimony and forging public documents and corrupt behaviour!!!!
But this is far from over - we have 1398 days to go from the end.
2 comments:
seems that UNDP has been telling all of us lies, since last week we do not have access to ACP and when asked Krishan Batra told that there was some technical problems.
I appreciate the blog efforts but until the member states get their act together and demand accountability, UNDP's administration will continue on this status of denial.
I personally do not get it why UNDP doesn't make the approvals public, aren't those public expenditure anyway?
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