World Bank Group
Sovereign and sub-sovereign loans co-financing national cold-chain, food-security, agri-logistics and public-health cold-storage programs.
USD 5M – 500M+ per project (typically financed within broader sector programs)
- ·Investment Project Financing (IPF)
- ·Development Policy Financing
- ·Program-for-Results
- ·IDA credits & grants
Follows World Bank Procurement Regulations for IPF Borrowers. Awards are made through International Competitive Procurement (ICP), National Procurement, or Request for Bids/Proposals published on the World Bank's STEP e-procurement portal and UNDB Online.
- ·Ministries (Agriculture, Health, Trade)
- ·State-owned food & pharma agencies
- ·Municipal & port authorities
- ·Public–private cold-chain SPVs
- ·National strategic reserve cold storage
- ·Vaccine & pharma cold chain (with WHO PQS-qualified equipment)
- ·Post-harvest loss reduction & agri-logistics corridors
- ·Fisheries port cold-storage rehabilitation
- Draft technical specifications (TDS) aligned with World Bank SBD/SPD templates
- Source pre-qualified international manufacturers and EPC contractors
- Coordinate multi-supplier bids that satisfy ICP eligibility rules
- Prepare bid packages, BOQs and Incoterms consistent with the borrower's country office requirements
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 World Bank Group-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 World Bank Group. 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.
World Bank Group-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
- 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.
- UNICEF Supply DivisionThe world's largest buyer of vaccine cold-chain equipment, procuring on behalf of governments and partners.