Model Policy Framework on Vendor Sanctions

  • Part of: Strategic Vendor Management Working Group, HLCM Procurement Network
  • Chairs: IFAD, UNOPS (alternate)

OVERVIEW

The Model Policy Framework on Vendor Sanctions (MPF) is a suite of policies and guidelines related to the sanctioning of vendors that have been found to have been involved in proscribed practices (fraud, corruption, collusion, coercion, unethical practices and obstruction). The MPF also provides Agencies with the procedures to disclose, through the UNGM, the names of entities and individuals that may have committed, through their actions or omissions, proscribed practices. One of the main goals of the MPF is the creation of strong agency-specific systems that meet each agency’s needs, that respond to its policies and capabilities and that is able to harmonize with similar efforts throughout the UN System. To this end, it is expected that the MPF is incorporated into Agency procedures and that, in due course, it will establish clear guidelines for their boards or committees to interpret and implement them.

The Project on Vendor Sanction was funded in 2009-2010 by the UN High Level Committee on Management (HLCM). The project was led by UNDP and the Framework was mainly inspired by the World Bank model.

DELIVERABLES

The MPF is composed of three parts:

  1. Guiding Principles: these are the principles that inspired the creation of the MPF. They can be fully or partially adopted at the discretion of the agency based on the accordance to their rules and needs. See below for more information.  
  2. Suggested Model Policy Framework (MPF) procedures: this is the core of the MPF, it is the suggested model of policy that Agencies should consider when defining a Vendor Sanction Policy.   
  3. Additional Important Matters: this section deals with important legal concerns, such as privileges and immunities, that by their nature must be addressed individually by each participating Agency in the MPF.

     

NEXT STEPS

After the completion of the project in 2014, the task of monitoring and advocating the implementation of MPF within the UN System of Organizations has been assigned to HLCM-PN Strategic Vendor Management Working Group (SVM-WG). Other organisations are considering adopting the Framework: the process is managed bu the Working Group.

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