Initiate procurement of necessary services, according to the UNESCO Administrative Manual, with the competent authorities of the postal service and transportation companies and ensure that prices obtained and services are competitive and satisfactory.
He has been working on data standards since 1999 but found that reaching agreement on a global standard proved impossible with all the competing interests among standards bodies, commercial and financial services networks combined with a lack of interest from banks which had already developed more or less satisfactory identification systems of their own.