Dear Mrs. Gabunia,

Further to the below, and in line with earlier discussions between the Ministry of Health, the World Bank and the UN working group on health procurement, we are pleased to submit for your consideration the quotations UNOPS has prepared for items under the Hospital Equipment category. This list has been discussed and agreed at the UN working group.

You will note that UNOPS is able to cover approx. 75% of the items under this category from existing LTAs/contracts and local quotes obtained. We have matched against existing LTA/contracts and reached out to major suppliers to confirm prices and availability, and inquired with contract managers about supplier performance evaluation. We have also received quotations for majority of the items from local suppliers and checked local offers with the prices available through LTAs.

As a result, UNOPS would be well positioned to supply “Hospital Equipment lines 1 to 30”, the “ER items”, the “Radiology items”, and the “Ward items”. We are not as well positioned to supply the “OR items”, the “Clinical Lab items”, and the “Sterilization items”. We will continue to look into the remaining items under this category, and there is a good chance that UNDP will be able to provide many of them, so we will revert with additional quotations next week.

Kindly note that most of the items are subject to UNOPS quality assurance policy, and that the price of imported commodities is net of transportation charges and UNOPS service fee.

We wanted to share the attached quotations, even if it is not a complete list, as it seems better to send them in batches once available for you to know as quickly as possible and to avoid that we lose the validity of the quotes as the market remains volatile for many of these commodities. As you can see, some of the items are immediately available, others might take time but we will try to expedite procurement process once the agreement is reached.

I remain available for further discussions with your team and with the World Bank teams.

We look forward to hearing from you and working together on this important project for Georgia.

With best wishes,

Mikkel

NB. We aim to share quotations for the “Laboratory” items (UNICEF) and “Emergency vehicles” (UNOPS) next week, if all goes well

Dear Mrs. Gabunia,

Many thanks, this is well noted, we will copy Maia in our communication going forward.

We endeavor to get back with quotes for additional items by the end of this week/early next week.

All the best,

Mikkel

Dear Mikkel

Many thanks for this update. This sounds great! Please kindly CC Maya Nikoleishvili on this communication for her immediate follow up.

With kind regards and look forward to moving ahead with needed procurements.

Best

Tamar

Dear Mrs. Gabunia,

I trust this message finds you well, despite the circumstances.

I write to provide you an update on the status of the COVID-19 procurement support by the UN. We have held several rounds of internal consultations among the interested UN agencies, and I am pleased to inform you that we have made good progress on divvying up the work with quotations for the many items on the MoH list.

In light of the urgency for PPEs, and with a view to streamline our support, we decided that UNDP will provide quotations for all the PPE items. They have solicited updated quotes and delivery times, and we are now ready to share them with the MoH. In this regard, I will request our UNDP colleagues to share the list directly with you, with a copy to the rest of us in this email. Kindly let me know if you would like other MoH colleagues to be in copy as well.

On the other categories, it will be UNOPS that provides quotes for the Emergency vehicles, and likely UNICEF/WHO that take care of the Laboratory items, and then UNOPS and UNDP will be sharing the Hospital Equipment items. All of these take a bit more time to validate quotes and delivery times, but we are working on it and will revert asap.  

Merely to keep you abreast of our efforts to support you.

With many thanks and best wishes,

Mikkel