According to a notice in the Official Journal of the European Union, the technology is being procured on behalf of the Identity and Passport Service (IPS) and would be delivered as a discrete service within the existing IPS architecture, capable of performing "one-to-one and one-to-many" checks.
This includes those procured on behalf of GAVI, and for the worldwide polio eradication effort.
It reports detailed data on the number of vaccines and vaccine supplies procured on behalf of GAVI for specific countries.
UNICEF procured over $3.3 billion worth of supplies and services for children, including $1.65 billion of supplies procured on behalf of 100 governments.
UNICEF's Procurement Services team procured on behalf of the Government of Pakistan, EPI vaccines valued at USD 60 million through their own budget and with donor support.
UNICEF's role In 2010, UNICEF procured, on behalf of GAVI and governments of developing countries, around 2.53 billion doses of traditional and new vaccines worth $750 million.
pro- word-forming element meaning "forward, forth, toward the front" (as in proclaim, proceed); "beforehand, in advance" (prohibit, provide); "taking care of" (procure); "in place of, on behalf of" (proconsul, pronoun); from Latin pro "on behalf of, in place of, before, for, in exchange for, just as," which also was used as a prefix.
The lead organisation would then procure services on behalf all the local organisations to eliminate duplication.
Its target is a law, Assembly Bill 117, known as Community Choice Aggregation or CCA, which enabled California cities and counties to circumvent their utilities and directly procure energy on behalf of electric consumers within their jurisdictions.
UNICEF works with established and new manufacturers to procure OPV on behalf of national governments, GPEI and UNICEF programmes for both routine immunisation and supplementary immunisation activities (SIAs).
