Procurement at UN Women

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UN Women procures more than USD 100 million worth of services and goods each year to support its programme of work. UN Women is committed to promoting gender equality and the empowerment of women worldwide while delivering green results, with an emphasis on transparency and effectiveness. UN Women is also committed to providing tools to, and supplementing the capacity of, its partners—such as governments, other UN entities, and corporations—to achieve socioeconomic objectives through practicing and encouraging gender-responsive procurement. UN Women has therefore taken the lead to integrate gender considerations in its procurement processes.

More information:

• Procurement principles
• Gender-responsive procurement
• Doing business with UN Women
• Becoming a UN Women vendor
• Contract templates and general conditions of contract
• Vendor protest procedure

Current solicitations 

Note: UN Women has launched a new e-procurement platform in 2017. The platform is currently live for procurement activities initiated at UN Women headquarters in New York. It will be rolled out to other locations in phases. For current solicitations initiated in New York, please visit the e-procurement platform.

Solicitations initiated in regional and country offices:

Solicitation documents

• Request for proposal (RFP): Instructions | Security instruments
• Invitation to bid (ITB): Instructions

Contract awards

The following are lists of UN Women contract awards for activities above USD 100,000:
2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013

Contractor/implementing partner awards with European Union funding

• Details of programme partners for EU-funded project “Gender-sensitive transitional justice”