Provision of Multimodal (Sea/Surface) Freight Forwarding Services (Door to Door, Port to Door, Door to Port, etc) for Movement of Cargo in Support of UN Operations Worldwide.

This Request for Expression of Interest (EOI) is issued for the provision of Multimodal (Sea/Surface) Freight Forwarding Services (Door to Door, Port to Door, Door to Port, etc) procured through the United Nations Procurement Division (UNPD) for movement of cargo in support of UN operations worldwide. Responding companies who meet UNPD's requirements for vendor registration will be added to UNPD's roster of freight forwarders and invited to participate in solicitations for sea/surface freight. Multimodal (Sea/Surface) Freight Forwarding Services are defined as follows: Movement of United Nations Owned Equipment (UNOE) or Contingent Owned Equipment (COE) from Origin (Door or Port) to Destination (Door or Port) via Sea/Surface freight. This may include full vessel charter, part cargo, liner service, etc as well as inland transportation, when necessary. IMPORTANT: 1) If your company is already on the list of UN freight forwarders for sea/surface freight requirements, please do NOT respond to this EOI. Companies that are not receiving these tenders but are interested in doing business with UNPD are to please respond to this EOI. 2) Companies that have responded to UNPD's previous EOIs for similar services do NOT need to respond to this EOI. 3) Before responding to this EOI, your company MUST have an accepted status with the United Nations Global Marketplace (www.ungm.org) with "UN Secretariat" at the Basic Level, or above. 4) All Sea/Surface freight service providers responding to this EOI MUST ensure that they have selected the following UNSPSC Code under their UNGM account: 78101700 (Marine Cargo Services), 78101800 (Road Cargo Transport), 78141500 (Freight Forwarding). 5) This EOI will be posted for a period of one year, however UNPD will undertake adding of new vendors on a quarterly basis. An annual review of the vendors’ participation rate will be conducted, which may result in the removal of non-responsive vendors from the list of invitees to UNPD tenders. 6) Interested companies should complete the attached form and send it to sara.shakouri@un.org 7) Should you have any questions on the above please address them to sara.shakouri@un.org