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Further guidance on preparing service bills to projects and recovering service costs (DES/DPC) is now available. The Zero Dollar Invoice (ZDI) shall be used for initial entries and subsequent correcting entries shall be done in the original invoices.

The following user guides are now published in the procedure steps:

Step 8 – User Guide on DES (DPC) Entries in Quantum: How to perform invoice adjustment on processed PO invoice, How to adjust Distribution information (or COA) and Project Segment in Non-PO Invoices.

Step 9 – Guidance on DPC Exception Report

DPC account codes with better definitions to attribute UPL/LPL based services and DE advisory services have been added.  A new fund code has been provided for CO stand-alone projects where a pre-financing could be essential. 

​As GLJE will not be used in Quantum, references to GLJE have been removed from procedure step 8.

The eTendering system is mandatory from 01 September 2019

The policy and procedures have been updated to reflect UNDP’s transition to its new cloud-based management platform Quantum in January 2023, replacing its previous ATLAS system.

​The Receivables and Expenditures process of Finance Chapter has been updated to reflect  procedures for management of US Government issued Letters of Credit for funding of UNDP projects.

​The US Letter of Credit (LOC) Agreements policy and accompanying guidelines have been updated as follows:...

​The US Letter of Credit (LOC) Agreements policy and accompanying guidelines have been updated as follows:

  • For USAID, there are sometimes contributions to support GEF, Covid-19 and other activities. The policy and related guidance previously limited funds to fund codes 30000 and 16610 for LOC contribution. Therefore, the policy and related guidance were updated to include fund codes for these other activities.
  • The DUNS number: 793511262 was replaced with DUNS number: 645521498. DUNS: 645521498 is the official DUNS number for UNDP which is used by UNDP Business Units applying for a USAID Grant.


  • ​The Universal Price List (UPL) and Local Price List (LPL) main policy was updated to reflect that regarding agencies’ contribution to RCO activities, the 2016 Advisory note for the UNDG Cost Sharing Funds for the RC system no longer applies and is hereby revoked as of January 01, 2019.

    ​UNDP offices can now monitor actual revenues earned from provisions of SLA/MOU or UPL/LPL services through the Corporate Agency Services Revenue Report. A link to this newly developed report has been added to the Explanatory Notes column under step 11 of the Universal Price List (UPL) and Local Price List (LPL) procedure table.

    This Policy clarifies cost drivers of UPL for standard services and provides a step-by-step guide to formulate LPL. This also incorporates three main options for implementing DPC, which are:

  • application of the CO workload study results, combined with multiple funding lines for posts;

  • application of the Universal Price Lists (UPL) or Local Price List (LPL) for transactional costs recovery; and

  • creation and management of a stand-alone DPC project.​