UNICEF Supply Division
Consolidated global procurement of WHO PQS pre-qualified vaccine refrigeration, cold boxes, passive containers, remote temperature monitors and installation services.
USD 20K – 100M+ per Long-Term Arrangement (LTA); annual global spend > USD 1B on cold chain and immunisation supplies.
- ·Request for Proposal (RFP)
- ·Invitation to Bid (ITB)
- ·Long-Term Arrangements (LTAs)
- ·Innovation Fund calls
Governed by UNICEF Supply Division policies. Tenders publish on UNGM and UNICEF Supply's own procurement portal. Suppliers must complete a Supplier Profile and, for cold-chain, hold current WHO PQS pre-qualification for the exact model tendered.
- ·UNICEF Supply Division (buying on behalf of governments)
- ·Governments accessing UNICEF Procurement Services
- ·NGO and humanitarian partners buying through UNICEF's LTAs
- ·Long-Term Arrangements for SDD and ILR vaccine refrigerators
- ·Passive cold-box and vaccine-carrier LTAs
- ·Global remote temperature monitoring frameworks
- ·Emergency-response cold-chain kits
- Screen and shortlist WHO PQS-eligible manufacturers for a new UNICEF supplier profile
- Prepare BAFO (Best and Final Offer) commercial packages aligned with LTA templates
- Coordinate in-country installation, training and warranty logistics
- Bridge complementary bulk cold-storage / walk-in cold-room needs outside the UNICEF catalogue
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 UNICEF Supply Division-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 UNICEF Supply Division. 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.
UNICEF Supply Division-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.
- United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)UN-agency procurement of cold-chain equipment for food security, health and climate resilience.
- Gavi, the Vaccine AllianceCold-chain equipment optimisation platform (CCEOP) financing WHO-PQS refrigerators and freezers.