Doing business with the ILO

Procurement notices

The ILO advertises current and future solicitations via procurement notices published on the United Nations Global Marketplace (UNGM)  website and the ILO Procurement website. To view all notices published on this website, please follow the links provided at the foot of the procurement home page .

Equitable, fair and open competition is enshrined as a guiding principle of procurement at the ILO. It is in the interests of the Organization that all eligible vendors are given an opportunity to submit tenders for ILO contracts. All ILO staff involved in procurement actions are responsible for upholding the integrity and transparency of procurement processes.

We encourage all vendors that would like to work with the ILO to register on UNGM as soon as possible to access ILO and overall UN business opportunities. If you are already registered, kindly ensure that your contact information is up to date (i.e. email, contact name, etc.).

For any queries related to the registration on UNGM, please refer to:

• UNGM Help Center: Completing the registration at the Basic level
• Supplier User Guide for the ILO eSourcing platform

Contract awards

To review recent contract awards, please follow the links provided at the foot of the procurement home page.

Prequalification

For some projects, the ILO may publish invitations to prequalify for bidding on particular contracts. To prequalify for such contracts, vendors may be asked to demonstrate that they meet set financial and technical criteria. Criteria are designed to establish whether vendors are capable of satisfactorily performing particular ILO contracts and typically focus on the experience, reputation, past performance, technical capacity, and financial position of the company or other entity applying for prequalification.

Selection of Vendors

The ILO uses a range of methods to identify potential vendors for business opportunities. In some cases, the ILO may publish invitations for Expressions of Interest. Other vehicles used by the Organization to source potential vendors include:
 

• the UNGM , an online supplier database accessible by all UN agencies,
• consultations with other UN organizations and agencies with similar purchasing needs to the ILO, and
• other procurement related websites.