The World Bank Funding Agreement should be used by UNICEF Country Offices to enter into procurement services agreements with governments using World Bank financing for health supplies and services.
Grupa Lotos has given Technip a €70 million lumpsum contract for the engineering and procurement services for a new solvent deasphalting unit at a refinery in Gdansk, Poland.
This includes a $1.6 billion contract with Colombia-based Refineria de Cartagena S.A. for the engineering, procurement services and construction of a new refinery with a processing capacity of 165,000 barrels per day.
The UNICEF World Bank partnership has provided significant resources, including US$944 million for UNICEF-provided procurement services.
AMEC has secured a contract for program and project management, engineering and procurement services for the Enbridge Southern Access and Southern Lights Pipeline projects.
A special kind of partnership UNICEF offers is procurement services for key commodities for children – such as vaccines, essential drugs, bednets, ARVs, and school supplies to help accelerate and attain child-specific MDGs.
Foster Wheeler Iberia SA has been awarded a lump-sum contract by Compañía Española de Petróleos SA (CEPSA), one of the main Spanish refining companies, for the front-end engineering design (FEED) and early procurement services for new crude, vacuum and gas concentration units at La Rábida Refinery at Huelva, in Spain.
Fluor Corp is to provide project management, engineering and procurement services for a US$598 million (A$775 million) copper-gold project for Oxiana Ltd in South Australia.
While the primary focus of the organisation is to provide procurement services for three local trusts, other services may be commissioned by primary care trusts across county boundaries.
SNC-Lavalin is to provide detailed engineering and procurement services for MacKay Operating Corp's MacKay River Central Plant Project.
Reliance Industries Ltd has selected Foster Wheeler to provide engineering and procurement services for its paraxylene project in Jamnagar, India.
