PASTFood: a new application went live.

OMB - Bangkok bureau's PASTFood trainees

PASTFood, the acronym for "Performance Analysis and Statistics Tool for Food Procurement), is one of the DELIVER projects. PastFood went live this week, so reason to celebrate!

The goal of the PASTfood project is to build an analytical tool to compare the cost of local, regional and international food purchases at any point in time.

In addition, the tool quantifies the opportunity cost of the various restrictions on the food procurement actions, through statistical analysis and reports.

The application captures the details of procurement actions in order to make a more precise analysis of the interplay between market factors, donor conditions and cost-efficiency.

Data includes names of vendors, prices offered, packaging, delivery terms, commodity origin, prices of international alternatives, internal (WINGS) information such as Purchase Requisition details, etc.

In September and October 2008, Laila, Mutinta, Janina and Roberta from HQ's Food Procurement unit (OMLP) went around the different regional bureaus to train the procurement staff and to get their feedback on the prototype tool.

additional info. in case you want to add: 73 staff members from 46 countries participated in training sessions organized in conjunction with 6 regional bureaus.

After a final fine-tune The production version went live this week. Reason to celebrate!!