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Procurement of Pharmaceutical Products

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To identify the channel to use for sourcing health products, please refer to the Health Procurement Architecture. If you are unable to find the product category under the Health Procurement Architecture, please contact the GHSC Health Procurement Services Team, based in UNDP, Copenhagen.

The UNDP Bureau for Management Services (BMS) Office of Procurement (OP) has established multiple Long-Term Agreements (LTAs) with commercial partners (manufacturers & suppliers/wholesalers) for the supply of the medicines that meet the minimum UNDP quality assurance requirements.

UNDP has LTAs established for adult antiretroviral (ARV) medicines, adult and pediatric first-line anti-TB medicines, all malaria medicines, medicines for managing STIs and opportunistic infections, medicines to treat Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C, as well as a range of other essential medicines and medicines for treating non-communicable disease (NCDs), such as diabetes, hypertension, and cancers.

All LTAs for health products that have been established centrally by the GHSC are closed and are only available for use by the GHSC HPS team.

The GHSC procurement team in Copenhagen conducts the procurement process on behalf of the CO for Global Fund programmes and for other health programmes.

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GHSC processes the requests for medicines semesterly, based on the consolidated demands of HPAP validated items.

Where urgent needs are identified outside of this schedule, the UNDP CO can send the request to HPS team focal point with copy to the GFPHST HPM focal point.

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Practice Pointer
Where UNDP relies on other United Nations agencies to assist with the procurement of specific categories of health products and where there are specific cases in which these UN agencies are unable to provide support, alternative arrangements will need to be made to procure products which are compliant with UNDP quality assurance requirements. In this case, the GHSC Health Procurement Services team will need to be informed, and can advise the CO on how to proceed.


Resources

OMS step by step guide for clients to process requests through GDF   Download

Functional Area: Health Product Management      Project Stage: Grant Implementation      Author: StopTB      Language: English      Type: Policies, Procedures and guidance      Topic: Step by Step Guide, GDF Resource, Global Drug Facilities (GDF)      Resource File Format: PDF      Resource Accessibility: Publicly accessible

Stop TB Partnership GDF Product Catalog   

Functional Area: Health Product Management      Project Stage: Grant Implementation      Author: Stop TB Partnership      Language: English      Type: Policies, Procedures and guidance      Topic: GDF Product Catalog      Resource File Format: Link      Resource Accessibility: Publicly accessible

UNICEF online supply catalogue   

Functional Area: Health Product Management      Project Stage: Grant Implementation      Author: UNICEF      Language: English      Type: Database or Catalogue      Topic: Supply Catalogue, UNICEF online supply catalogue      Resource File Format: Link      Resource Accessibility: Publicly accessible