Our mission is to provide effective and high quality procurement services to all members of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
We are expanding our procurement services to third parties through our status as a humanitarian procurement centre and through our normal service mechanisms. We endeavour to provide best value for money to all our customers through fair competition and transparent procedures.
Humanitarian procurement centres
The International Federation is expanding to third parties the procurement services it already provides to National Societies. Key to this is our accreditation by the Directorate General for Humanitarian Aid (DG ECHO) as a humanitarian procurement centre.
ECHO has accredited a limited number of humanitarian procurement centres, and promotes them among its small- and medium-sized partners. Partners can also benefit from ECHO’s qualification process and receive professional supply chain services from accredited centres.
Find out more about humanitarian procurement centres and what ECHO accreditation means.