17. 审计委员会就供应链管理提出了一系列意见和建议(A/74/5(Vol.II))，第二章，第 314-365 段)。审计委员会注意到，除其他外，没有就卫星通信服务举行竞标。它注意到，自 1980 年代中期以来，联合国一直使用一个政府间组织提供的服务，2001 年，该组织被私有化。联合国根据 2002 年 7 月 1 日签署的一项非排他性大宗客户协议继续保持商业关系，协议的初始期限为五年，此后多次延长，最近一次延长至 2021 年。据审计委员会称，该协议的目标值为 2.74 亿美元。审计委员会建议行政当局进行互联网容量服务招标，从而确保国际竞争，并认为行政当局必须尽快启动招标进程(同上，第 348-355 段)。行预咨委会询问后获悉，卫星服务的招标工作已经开始，信息和通信技术厅正在编制工作说明书，将于 2020 年 3月底完成。在收到最终工作说明书后，采购司将启动正式招标程序，招标程序预计将于 2021 年 3 月完成。
17. The Board of Auditors made a series of observations and recommendations regarding the management of the supply chain (A/74/5 (Vol. II), chap. II, paras. 314– 365). The Board observed, inter alia, the absence of a competitive bidding exercise for satellite communication services. It noted that, since the mid-1980s, the United Nations had been using the services of an intergovernmental organization that had been privatized in 2001. The United Nations had continued the business relations based on a non-exclusive wholesale customers’ agreement, which had been signed on 1 July 2002 for an initial term of five years and extended several times since, most recently until 2021. According to the Board, the agreement had a target value of $274 million. The Board recommended that the Administration ensure international competition by soliciting Internet capacity services and considered it crucial that the Administration initiate the solicitation process as soon as possible (ibid., paras. 348– 355). Upon enquiry, the Advisory Committee was informed that the solicitation exercise for the satellite services had started and the Office of Information and Communications Technology was developing the statement of work, to be completed by the end of March 2020. Upon receipt of the final statement of work, the Procurement Division would start the formal bidding process, which was expected to be completed by March 2021.