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This website offers three sources of support for product selection:
- The Catalogue of Prequalified Immunization Devices includes details of all prequalified immunization-related products. It also contains comprehensive guidance notes to help purchasers make informed choices. The Catalogue product sheets are updated each time a change occurs with regard to a product, a manufacturer or a laboratory. The Catalogue is published quarterly.
- The search and compare tool provides rapid access to basic product details, as well as the opportunity to identify and compare the appropriate products based on the specific challenges and needs of particular operating environments.
- Links to interactive product selection tools can help EPI programme managers and technicians select the most appropriate equipment through guided, step-by-step analysis of the operating context, finances, performance needs and any challenges and constraints that their programme faces at its various health service points and vaccine storage centres.
Once the national EPI programme has identified the appropriate prequalified products these may be ordered:
- through the UNICEF Supply Division Procurement Services
- through the Inter-Agency Procurement Services Office (UNDP/IAPSO) and UN Global Marketplace
- directly from the manufacturer via a Direct Ordering Agreement.