Procurement Tools

Strong procurement systems and supply chains are essential to ensuring that the right medicines get to the right places at the right time. Since 2007, strengthening procurement and supply chains in the countries we work in has been one of the Global Fund’s priorities.

Implementing partners can choose to procure medicines and health products by joining the Global Fund’s Pooled Procurement Mechanism, by commissioning a procurement service agency to purchase on their behalf, or directly through their own procurement services.

The Global Fund’s Pooled Procurement Mechanism (PPM) is a key initiative to aggregate demand and negotiate pricing and delivery conditions, and to support improved access to quality assured, affordable health products, with wambo.org serving as the technology platform that facilitates order management.

Pooled Procurement Mechanism

The Pooled Procurement Mechanism is a key initiative we use to aggregate order volumes on behalf of participating grant implementers to negotiate prices and delivery conditions with manufacturers. In 2025, the Pooled Procurement Mechanism managed approximately US$1.02 billion in orders, serving grant implementers in 81 countries.

The mechanism:

  • Provides access to competitive market terms and prices no matter the size or value of the order;
  • Eliminates procurement delays due to complicated tendering processes;
  • Supports timely grant expenditure;
  • Ensures that quality assured goods and medicines reach those most in need in a timely manner.

Health products available through the mechanism include antiretrovirals, antimalarial medicines, essential medicines, insecticide-treated nets, viral load tests and rapid diagnostic tests.

Reference prices and estimated lead times for health products can be found on each category page. We offer a budget guidance tool to help in-country partners with the total cost of ownership, including freight, insurance and quality testing costs associated with their Pooled Procurement Mechanism orders:

  • Pooled Procurement Mechanism: Freight, Insurance, Quality Assurance/Quality Control Indicative Reference Costs
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Individual implementers can also obtain a broader range of health products, such as laboratory and diagnostic products, drugs for opportunistic infections, condoms and other products through the Pooled Procurement Mechanism.

wambo.org

The Global Fund’s online procurement platform, wambo.org, offers buyers access to different procurement channels, including the Global Fund’s Pooled Procurement Mechanism (PPM), for health products and selected non-health products used primarily for HIV, tuberculosis and malaria health programs. Implementing country procurement teams can search for quality products and submit and track orders and invoices. It can improve market visibility, simplify transaction management and improve procurement lead times, while increasing access to quality and value-for-money products.

Ordering through PPM/wambo.org with domestic or other funding

The Global Fund has adopted a new Policy on Non-Global Fund-financed Procurement through PPM/wambo.org [link], expanding access to quality assured and affordable health products through its procurement platform using non-Global Fund financing.

Building on previous arrangements, the Policy broadens access to the Global Fund's Pooled Procurement Mechanism (PPM), through which eligible buyers can benefit from the Global Fund’s market shaping efforts, including negotiated pricing and established supply arrangements, when procuring products available through the wambo.org catalogue. The Policy supports countries in maintaining reliable access to key health products as they strengthen domestic financing and move towards greater self-reliance.

Currently orders placed with non-Global Fund financing require payment in advance. Payment may be made either directly by the buyer or by an approved third-party payer, such as a donor, development partner or financing institution acting on the buyer’s behalf. Work is underway to establish a pre-financing facility that may, in the future, be available to eligible buyers, subject to applicable requirements and availability. 

For more information see:

  • Wambo.org platform: Process Overview for Non-Global Fund Grant transactions
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  • Wambo.org platform: Potential Benefits for Non-Global Fund Grant transactions
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Potential buyers interested in procuring through wambo.org using domestic resources or other sources of funding can contact  on eligibility and how to get started.