Donor & DFI · Cold-chain procurement
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.
Least-Developed CountriesSmall Island Developing StatesFragile & Conflict-Affected StatesAfricaAsia-Pacific
Ticket range
USD 50K – 20M per lot; multi-country framework agreements common.
Instruments
- ·Request for Quotation (RFQ)
- ·Invitation to Bid (ITB)
- ·Request for Proposal (RFP)
- ·Long-Term Agreements (LTAs)
Procurement route
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.
Eligible buyers
- ·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
Typical cold-chain lots
- ·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
How ColdMatch helps
- 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
Preparing a United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)-funded cold-chain package?
Send us the BOQ, capacity and country. We'll return 3–5 competing supplier offers structured to the institution's bid templates — free for buyers.
Official procurement portal: procurement-notices.undp.org . ColdMatch Group is an independent sourcing service and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or acting on behalf of United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
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.