Donor funded projects
i+solutions is the Procurement Service Agent for The Global Fund’s Pooled Procurement Mechanism (PPM) and Stop TB Partnership’s Global Drug Facility (GDF), annually delivering millions USD worth of HIV treatments, antimalarials, tuberculosis medicines and O2 medical oxygen plants and accessories. Deliveries are made in over 120 countries.
Projects
The Global Fund’s Pooled Procurement Mechanism (PPM)
In 2023, i+solutions’ moved into the fifth year of its contract with The Global Fund (TGF) for outsourced pooled procurement services (PPM), procuring over 385 million USD worth of HIV treatments and over 104 million USD worth of antimalarials. i+solutions maintained its high service level of previous years, delivering in total over 565 million USD worth of health products with an on-time performance of 93%.
As part of the Global Fund’s Covid-19 Response Mechanism, since 2021, i+solutions procures and delivers oxygen equipment, specifically pressure swing adsorption (PSA) plants to over 30 countries. This reflects TGF’s continued strategy on ‘pandemic preparedness’. The Global Fund has commissioned i+solutions to also take care of site construction, installation, service and warranty.
In 2023 alone, i+solutions processed requests for oxygen plants for a total amount of USD 55 Million. In 2024, a total of 176 Oxygen sites in 30 countries are under construction. The project has been extended until 2026.
Stop TB Partnership’s Global Drug Facility (GDF)
In November 2022, i+solutions was very proud to be informed that it had won a contract with the Stop TB Partnership’s Global Drug Facility (GDF) to provide procurement services of anti-tuberculosis medicines. GDF, which is hosted by UNOPS, is a procurement and supply mechanism that provides tuberculosis (TB) programmes with strategic procurement of TB products and coordination of market activities, with technical assistance and capacity-building.
In late 2022, i+solutions formed a project implementation team – in close collaboration with GDF – to be ready to process GDF orders as quickly as possible. This multidisciplinary team focussed on all the critical elements which were required to start the contract. Broadly speaking, these requirements related to people, processes and systems. Although from a high-level perspective, the processes and requirements are similar for other procurement work i+solutions executes, this project has a key, unique requirement: a strategic rotating stockpile of anti-TB medicines. i+solutions sub-contracted a warehouse facility in The Netherlands to perform this function. The warehouse is managed by The Medical Export Group in Vuren, The Netherlands. This service represents a further string to i+solutions’ bow and it can claim warehousing as a new facet to the procurement and supply services it offers to its donors and clients.
From an operational point of view, i+solutions began accepting GDF client requests in early June 2023, roughly 4 months earlier than GDF had originally anticipated. This is testament to the excellent project management/implementation approach i+solutions uses. By the end of 2023, i+solutions had processed requests totalling $129M and delivered shipments together worth $5M.
Oxygen project
In 2023, i+solutions processed requests for Oxygen plants for a total amount of USD 55 Million. The project not only involves the procurement of Oxygen plants, though. The Global Fund has commissioned i+solutions to also take care of all the supporting activities such as site construction, installation, service and warranty.
So far, i+ has procured a total of 176 Oxygen plants for 30 countries; with the highest number of plants procured for Nigeria (e.g. total of 63 plants). In 2023 alone, i+solutions processed requests for oxygen plants for a total amount of USD 55 Million. In 2024, a total of 176 Oxygen sites in 30 countries are under construction. The project has been extended until 2026.
