Chief, Procurement and Logistics Division at Headquarters and Field Procurement and Logistics Officers in each Field will maintain their own Register of Approved Suppliers as international procurement at UNRWA is carried out by the Procurement and Logistics Division at Headquarters (Amman). Procurement and Logistics Departments in UNRWA's five Fields in the area of operations are authorized to undertake local procurement only.  New suppliers are added to the Register after investigation of suitability. The investigation involves consideration of several factors such as:

• Financial standing,

• Core business,

• Track record,

• Contract capacity;

to be followed later by performance evaluation as a supplier such as:

• Periodic testing of the supplier's products,

• Ability to respond quickly to Agency's needs,

• Timely delivery,

• Dependability of products and services.

Please complete and submit online the supplier contact form. You will be sent a company profile form with all the information on requirements for registration if your product range is suitable for any of the Agency's programmes. Companies may also register through United Nations Global Marketplace (UNGM) Website which is a supplier database available to UNRWA and other UN agencies.

UNRWA supports the UN Global Compact Initiative - put forward  on 31 January 1999, by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan that would bring companies together with UN agencies, labor and civil society to support ten principles in the areas of human rights, labor, the environment, and anti-corruption. We encourage our suppliers to sign up with the UN Global Compact Initiative. Consequently we have  included environmental factors in our pre-qualification criteria for approval of suppliers and even in our tendering and tender evaluation process. The supplier contact form includes an Environmental Management Questionnaire which is a part of the pre-evaluation process

We appreciate your feedback on our business processes.

For further information you can contact us through:

United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA)
Chief, Procurement & Logistics Division
Industrial Street, Bayader Wadi Seer
P. O. Box 140157
Amman 11814 / JORDAN

Telephone: (+962 6) 580 8400 (direct) or (+962 6) 582 6171 + ext 2401
Fax: (+962 6) 586 4127
E-mail: cpld@unrwa.org or n.ashcroft@unrwa.org

Please also read Common Guidelines for Procurement by Organizations in the UN system