UNICEF Supply Division
Procurement of WHO PQS pre-qualified vaccine refrigerators and freezers, cold boxes, passive containers, remote temperature monitors and installation services.
- In 2025, UNICEF procured US$ 5.677 billion of supplies and services for children in 164 countries and territories. This country count covers all UNICEF procurement, not cold chain equipment alone; the report gives no separate country count for cold chain equipment.Source: UNICEF Supply Annual Report 2025 (PDF) · checked 26 October 2026
- In 2025, cold chain equipment accounted for US$ 144 million of UNICEF procurement; vaccines accounted for US$ 2.446 billion.Source: UNICEF Supply Annual Report 2025 (PDF) · checked 26 October 2026
- The Cold Chain Equipment Optimization Platform (CCEOP), funded primarily by Gavi with joint investment from ministries of health and other partners and with UNICEF as procurement partner, invested US$ 450 million across 55 countries and territories from 2016 to 2025. This is the scope of that platform only, not of all UNICEF cold chain procurement.Source: UNICEF Supply Annual Report 2025 (PDF) · checked 26 October 2026
- ·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
- UNICEF Supply Division runs its own tenders and Long-Term Arrangements; ColdMatch does not prepare offers or supplier profiles for them
- Organize complementary needs outside the UNICEF catalogue, such as bulk cold storage or walk-in cold rooms, into one reviewed project brief
- Contact suitable suppliers on the buyer's behalf and present organized responses
- Installation, training and warranty 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 UNICEF Supply Division-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 UNICEF Supply Division. 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.
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 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.