United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Direct procurement (on behalf of governments and vertical funds) of cold-chain equipment, solar cold rooms, vaccine cold chain and last-mile refrigeration for humanitarian, health and climate programs.
- Procurement method by estimated value: micro-purchasing below US$ 15,000; Request for Quotation (RFQ) US$ 15,000–299,999; Invitation to Bid (ITB) or Request for Proposal (RFP) US$ 300,000 or more.Source: UNDP — How we buy · checked 26 October 2026
- ·Request for Quotation (RFQ)
- ·Invitation to Bid (ITB)
- ·Request for Proposal (RFP)
- ·Long-Term Agreements (LTAs)
Governed by UNDP's Programme and Operations Policies and Procedures (POPP). Tenders publish on the UNGM (United Nations Global Marketplace) and UNDP Procurement Notices portal; suppliers must register on UNGM.
- ·UNDP country offices (buying on behalf of governments)
- ·Ministries of Health and Agriculture using UNDP as procurement agent
- ·Vertical funds (Green Climate Fund, GEF) implemented by UNDP
- ·Solar-powered cold rooms for smallholder farmer cooperatives
- ·Vaccine cold chain in fragile / conflict-affected states
- ·Climate-adaptation cold storage in Small Island Developing States
- ·Emergency food-reserve refrigeration
- Tenders run by UNDP follow UNDP's published procedures and UNGM supplier registration; ColdMatch does not prepare or submit proposals
- Organize requirements that sit outside a UNDP-run tender (for example an implementing partner's or awarded contractor's own equipment purchase) into one reviewed project brief
- Contact suitable suppliers on the buyer's behalf and present organized responses
- Refrigerant or energy requirements the buyer specifies are written into the brief so responses can be compared against them
Send us the scope, capacity and country. Our team reviews the requirement first; where the project qualifies (from USD 250,000), we contact suitable suppliers on your behalf and present organized responses. We do not bid in, or advise on, the institution's own tenders. No cost to the buyer.
How financing fits into a United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)-linked cold-chain project
ColdMatch Group is an industrial cold-chain procurement platform. We are not a lender, we do not provide financial advice, and we are not affiliated with or acting for United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). What we do is help buyers organize the technical requirement — capacity, temperature regime, equipment lots, standards and BOQ — so our team can contact suitable suppliers and EPC contractors on the buyer's behalf. Projects are reviewed by our team before any supplier is contacted; with the buyer's consent, a qualified project may also be introduced to independent financing partners.
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)-linked project: loan terms, interest and repayments
Enter your own assumptions to see what a capital structure costs over the life of the facility. Development finance and concessional facilities usually carry longer tenors, a construction grace period and lower margins than commercial bank debt; equipment leasing sits at the shorter, more expensive end. Use it to test whether the project's expected earnings can carry the debt service before you approach any institution.
Other donor pathways
- World Bank GroupIBRD / IDA sovereign lending for cold-chain, food security and health supply chains.
- International Finance Corporation (IFC)Private-sector cold-chain, agribusiness and pharma cold storage financing across emerging markets.
- African Development Bank (AfDB)Sovereign and private-sector financing for African agri-cold-chain, food security and health logistics.
- Gavi, the Vaccine AllianceUnder Gavi 6.0 (2026–2030), vaccine cold chain equipment is funded from each country's single Cash Budget; the earlier CCEOP platform ran from 2016 to 2025.
- UNICEF Supply DivisionProcures vaccine cold chain equipment and services for governments and partners, and is the standard procurement agency for Gavi-funded cold chain equipment.