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.
USD 50K – 20M per lot; multi-country framework agreements common.
- ·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
- Prepare UNGM-compliant technical and price proposals
- Consolidate multi-country lots to hit UNDP's LTA volume thresholds
- Route RFPs to WHO-PQS-eligible manufacturers for vaccine cold chain
- Provide sustainability / natural-refrigerant statements required by GCF-funded lots
Send us the BOQ, capacity and country. Our team reviews the requirement first, and where the project qualifies we structure it so competing supplier offers can be compared against the institution's bid templates. 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 and project-matching 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 structure the technical requirement — capacity, temperature regime, equipment lots, standards and BOQ — so it can be taken to suppliers, EPC contractors and, where relevant, to independent financing partners. Qualifying projects are reviewed by our team before any supplier or EPC introduction.
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 AllianceCold-chain equipment optimisation platform (CCEOP) financing WHO-PQS refrigerators and freezers.
- UNICEF Supply DivisionThe world's largest buyer of vaccine cold-chain equipment, procuring on behalf of governments and partners.