- How do you feel about Krishan Batra denying access to ACP's past approvals?
- How do you feel about Krishan Batra approval of LTA's (ie: CISCO, etc)?
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From: On Behalf Of Krishan BatraSent: Monday, January 21, 2008 4:03 PM
To: mpn-procure@groups.undp.org
Subject: [mpn-procure] WAIVER CASES: WRONG INTERPRETATION
Importance: High
Dear Colleagues:
As you are aware that presently we treat all cases as waivers if the outcome of the bidding process leads to less than 3 responsive offers. This term is ok within UNDP but when outsiders look at it they consider that waiver means no competition. This sometimes distorts the actual procurement data of UNDP and some have tried to present this information in a very negative way.
To present the information in a correct perspective, we plan to come up with the following categories.
1. Procurement Action (PA): This means that competitive process has been undertaken and the outcome is minimum 3 responsive offers.
2. Technical Waivers (Instead of just waivers): This means that competitive process was undertaken but inspite of due diligence the outcome did not had 3 responsive offers.
3. Direct Contracting: This means that contract has been awarded directly to the vendor either based on Long Term Arrangement or based on previous competitive process undertaken during the last 12 months or standardization. These cases were earlier treated as waivers.
I hope the above will help us to segregate our procurement information in a correct way. Before we implement this change, we look forward to your comments and suggestions.
Cheers!
Krishan
18 comments:
rishan Batra cannot opt out of his wrong doings now. He has to take responsibility of his own actions. I see from the description of the three categories outlined by Krishan that request for waivers should be a result of a competitive process; it can be an LTA which is a result of a competitive process undertaken earlier or based on a current solicitation. There is no allowance for selection of vendors without a competitive process.
I agree we cannot have waivers. If the country office would rush the procurement process, sure that at the end we will end up with fewer offers and the result will be WAIVER. I think that Krishan and PSO has failed to institutionalize a system by which to measure and ensure that annual procurement plans are properly assessed and implemented. All of us at CO we rush in our procurement to meet delivery deadlines after september and we do not respect the rules. At the end the result is ...WAIVER
Comon Krishan do you think that staff is stupid? How can you say that everything we do is a waiver. Than by just admiting it, you should resign. Because as per definition a procurement procesee cannot end up in waiver. Definitely not 83% of all procurements that has so far passed your way.
you should be ashamed of yrslf Krishan to try to put the blame on country offices for bringing all waivers. you're the chair of ACP and its your responsbility as much as others seating there wsith you NOT to permit such things from happening.
Send the waiver request back to CO and you will see how they will learn.
Stating that everything "we do" is waiver. Is a lie. Is your lie Krishan.
comon guys this is not Mr. Krishan, I am sure he has been ordered from akiko and Dervis to write this email. I bet if the email wasn't print out and sent to those Donros who have pressured them on the matter.
It's dishonest to staff to claim now that all we do was/is Waiver.
hahhaha ...so Krishan brakes the rules and now tries to make it a collective blame?
This a good one !!!
Dear Krishan, we might look stupid, we are not. WAIVER = WAIVER of competitive process. Anything else is not WAIVER. This is English not URDU.
oh my god. I hope this one continues 'cauz the only way to get rid of this corrupt class of managers.
Good job Watchers !!
Haven't you stolen enough Krishan? Just get out man, you have become a shame to UNDP.
I don't understand where is our OAPR. Is there an investigation unit there?
Yep is Francis - the man's man.
From the dictionary:
WAIVER: Intentional relinquishment of a right, claim, or privilege
So I guess this definition fits the bill:
The voluntary renunciation, Abandonment or surrender of some claim, right, or privilege.
Example: A Violation of a contract causes the need for a waiver from the other party who does not feel injured. :rolleyes:
So is it an express waiver or an implied waiver dear Sir
UNDP rules are very clear about the waivers. WE SHOULD MINIMIZE THOSE.
Why Mr. Batra doesn't explain first how come ACP online is not working? Wouldn't be better if UNDP made public all those cases, and let the public judge them?
BTW. Krishan have some explanation to give all of us about CORIMEC. How it happened?
couldn't agree more, krishan has to provid a clear explanation of the events that led to CORIMEC being approved. If that is the waiver he is talking about, than we should be really worried of what elese could have gove wrong.
.. is unfair to target only krishan, he is not the only one in ACP, and he's quite a dedicated professional.
What about Jim Provenzano and Dimitri Samaras ?
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