Companies doing business with the United Nations are required to accept and comply with the UN Supplier Code of Conduct.
The Code of Conduct informs Vendors of the following:
- that they are excpected not to engage in corrupt practices.
- that they must disclose information on any situation that may appear to present a conflict of interest.
- that the UN has a zero-tolerance policy and does not accept any type of gift or any offer of hospitality.
- Post-employment restrictions may apply to UN staff in service and former UN staff members who participated in the procurement process, if such persons had prior professional dealings with suppliers. UN suppliers are expected to refrain from offering employment to any such person based on the .
The bulletin describes the post-employment restrictions as follows:
| (i) | the one-year prohibition on seeking or accepting employment or any form of compensation or financial benefit from any contractor or vendor with whom a former staff member has had personal, significant and substantive involvement during the former staff member's last three years of service with the United Nations; and |
| (ii) | the two-year prohibitions on knowingly communicating with, or appearing before, any staff member or unit of the Organization on behalf of a third party on any matters that were under the former staff member's official responsibility relating to the procurement process during the former staff member's last three years of service with the United Nations. |
Any United Nations contractor or vendor of goods or services who offers employment, hires or otherwise compensates staff members in violation of the provisions of the present bulletin may, after review by the Organization, be subject to having its registration as a qualified contractor or vendor with the United Nations barred, suspended or terminated, in accordance with United Nations procurement policies and procedures.
Please use the links below to view or download Rev.07 of the UN Supplier Code of Conduct, which was issued by the High Level Committee on Management – Procurement Network in September 2024.
English
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Russian
Chinese
Arabic
In the event of any discrepancies between the updated English version of the Supplier Code of Conduct and the existing translations of the previous version, the updated English version shall prevail until the translations are finalized.