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Pre-Tender Meeting for AMC procurement 26th August 2009
UNICEF is preparing to issue the first Call for Offers for Pneumococcal Vaccines for GAVI-eligible countries under the Advance Market Commitment (AMC). An AMC is an innovative new financing strategy designed to accelerate access to lifesaving new vaccines and medicines in developing countries - the first AMC will focus on the development and availability of pneumococcal vaccines. Donor countries and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have committed US$1.5 billion to support this initiative.
The AMC will use funds committed by donors to guarantee the price of yet to be developed vaccines, thus providing manufacturers with more certain market conditions, the incentive to make the considerable investment required for new vaccines and the capacity to supply vaccines in the quantities required by developing countries. The goal is to create a self-sustaining marketplace with affordable prices for eligible countries, who in turn will receive support from the GAVI Alliance to purchase the new vaccines.
As one of the objectives of the first Call for Offers is to enter into supply agreements for supply to start no later than 5 years into the future, any manufacturer who is expecting to have a pneumococcal vaccine available for supply to UNICEF within this time frame should respond to the Call for Offers. We therefore consider this meeting highly relevant for present and future manufacturers of pneumococcal vaccines.
UNICEF will host a pre-tender meeting to he held in UNICEF Supply Division, Copenhagen, on 26th August 2009.
Please see draft agenda attached (PDF)
