Ad Melkert gives orders not to publish any procurement notice

Few days ago an email from Nina Brandt - PSO (Procurement Support Office) went around giving guidelines on how to publish Procurement Data On-Line. Nothing wrong with that, and finally some direct advice and guidance was coming to us on how to proactively and transparently handle our procurements. (we cannot publish the email of Nina Brandt to Procurement Network - because it contains sensitive internal data for UNDP)

But it seem that Nina's email gave a heart-stroke to Ad Melkert and his Chief of Staff Gettu, who got immediately scared with the idea that the Country Offices would start publishing data on how UNDP spend money for the dictators, and how they use (abuse) waiver of competitive bidding to award contracts to friends and family of "strategic counterparts".

Scared to death from the latest leaks to media - Chief of Staff Gettu called James Provenzano and demanded (screaming) that he (in his capacity of Head of PSO) immediately take actions to undo this: - "huge mistake of letting Country Offices to publish their procurement notices without HQ clearance".


Gettu's orders to Provenzano were to: -hide after the "risk of terrorist attacks" and protect UNDP Contractors from any potential "kidnapping".


We are publishing herein the email of Provenzano to this regard:


-----Original Message-----

From: On Behalf Of james.provenzano at undp.org

Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 8:34 AM

To: 'Procurement Network'Subject:

Re: [mpn-procure] Posting procurement notices and contract awards

I wish you ewould have let me discuss before sending. There is issue of COs where there is sincere risk of posting contract info that poses risk to contractors (kidnapping, etc). I suggest you seend followup message to say that if CO believes there is security risk to contact hq for instructions

Thanks,
Jim
Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile

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Poor Ms. Brandt, she did her job well following the UNDP guidelines, but apparently UNDP corrupt management do not care of guidelines, or transparency - and in absence of internal accountability they can order anything they want.


James, can you please explain to UNDP Watch what you mean by "sincere risk of posting contract info that poses risk to contractors (kidnapping, etc)" ? Do you know of any contractor who worked for UNDP that has been kidnapped?

James do you know how many members are part of Procurement Network ? A lot. So next time, when you send a reply from outlook, make sure that you reply to Nina only and not to the whole network.

Or if you have experienced any trouble lately using your Outlook please call Fridakis, he will fix your computer from his own desk, he got your password. Isn't always good to have a buddy like Fridakis watch your back (careful he's Greek).

Have you ever thought how can a new DRR of a certain office, which have just joined UNDP, review the cases from his/her predecessor ? Well he/she cannot, because Fridakis doesn't permit. So how are they suppose to do their job and report to Regional CPO and HQ when can't access their own data?

QUESTIONS:

- Is it you James the head of PSO ?
- Are you the supervisor of Krishan Batra who claims to be the king of ACP ?
- Did Krishan informed you of his joint-actions with Fridakis to shut down ACP online and no longer permit anyone to see what happened with previous PUBLIC PROCUREMENTS?
- Did Krishan told you that he was the one to approve the waiver for EVELINE and even draft her TORs since they were missing from the ACP submission?
- Can you James access with you password the case of EVELINE ?