Mandate: UNOPS is the project management arm of the United Nations System that manages or supports the projects of other UN organizations, in all sectors in which the UN operates.

Structure: UNOPS is a highly decentralized organization and procurement is done through a variety of divisions and locations. Procurement is undertaken by the UNOPS Special Offices in Copenhagen and Geneva, Project Managers in New York, and Field Offices around the world

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Contact Information

For general procurement related enquiries, contact:

Registry
UNOPS Copenhagen Office
P.O. Box 2695
2100 Copenhagen 0
Denmark
procurement@unops.org

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Procurement Procedures:

Registration: UNOPS determines shortlisted companies using the UNCSD among other methods, see:
http://www.unops.org/textimageflash/43
Vendors interested in presenting their company profile and information about their goods and services to UNOPS should send them via email to:
procurement@unops.org

Procurement Rules: UNOPS procures goods and services through open international competitive bidding, limited international competitive bidding, and direct contracting. For more information, see:
http://www.unops.org/textimageflash/40

Field Procurement: Procurement is undertaken at Headquarters and UNOPS offices around the world. For a list of global contacts, see:
http://www.unops.org/textimageflash/offices.asp

Finding Opportunities: A list of upcoming and ongoing projects administered by UNOPS is available at:
http://www.unops.org/textimageflash/44
For current procurement opportunities see:
http://www.unops.org/textimageflash/56

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Total Procurement (in USD millions

	Goods	Services	Total
1997	$178.7	$106.5	$285.2
1998	$162.7	$168.5	$331.2
1999	$186.6	$170.2	$356.8
2000	$156.1	$143.1	$299.2
2001	$157.3	$172.2	$329.5
Growth	-12.0%	61.7%	15.5%

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Major Items Procured (in $USD millions)

	2001	Avg. Annual Share
Engineering	$42.8	13.0%
Steel Products	$18.9	5.7%
Mine Clearing	$17.1	5.2%
Ozone Depleting Substances Phase Out Equipment	$15.5	4.7%
Petroleum Products	$14.4	4.4%
Motor Vehicles	$10.0	3.0%
Procurement Services	$9.4	2.9%
Trade & Business Services	$7.1	2.2%

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Procurement Source (in $USD millions)

	2001	Avg. Annual Share
Host Country (United States)	$26.3	8.0%
Other 9 Major UN Supplier ¹	$60.2	18.3%
Developing/Transition Economies ²	$37.9	11.5%
Canada ³	$1.2	0.4%

¹ The 10 Major Developed Country UN Suppliers (since 1996) are: United States, Japan, United Kingdom, Italy, France, Denmark, Switzerland, Belgium, Germany, and the Netherlands.
² Based on the IAPSO classification of Developing/Transition Economies.
³ Canada was the 25th largest supplier to UNOPS in 2001.

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Prepared by the International Financing Division (TBF)
International Trade Canada.
April 2003

Last Updated:
2004-07-29

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