Qualified where the requirements are hardest.
Eastwest Medico supplies personal protective equipment and infection prevention products to United Nations agencies, national health services, hospitals and humanitarian programmes. The capability that matters in that work is not price. It is holding specification, documentation and delivery together at the same time, under scrutiny, on a date that cannot move.
A long-term agreement under a United Nations procurement framework.
Eastwest Medico has signed a Long-Term Agreement for the supply of infection prevention products under a global procurement framework administered by a not-for-profit procurement service agent on behalf of a United Nations agency. The agreement was awarded under RFP/2024/54109, published on the United Nations Global Marketplace, covering Lot 1: Personal Protective Equipment.
The framework enables pooled procurement at competitive pricing, the model that has made it the largest global provider of quality-assured products of its kind to the public sector.
"This is more than a commercial milestone. It is about contributing to reliable and affordable protection for healthcare workers, patients and public health programmes around the world. Quality, compliance, sourcing and documentation are not just technical requirements. They are what make it possible to deliver critical products into healthcare systems where trust and affordability matter."
Institutional buyers, in four groups.
Our customers buy at scale, under audit, against published specifications. Each group asks a different question first, and the answer has to be documentary rather than commercial.
Supply into UN-linked procurement frameworks, where supplier conduct, quality assurance and documentation are assessed as conditions of participation rather than as award criteria. Pooled procurement means one specification serving many countries, so consistency matters more than flexibility.
Framework agreements and EU tenders under public procurement rules, where a documentation gap excludes a bid rather than reducing its score. Multi-year terms require holding specification and supply through whatever happens in between.
Clinical-grade gloves and PPE with full traceability from ward to warehouse. Clinical users evaluate fit and tactility directly, which is a different and stricter test than a datasheet review.
Rapid mobilisation where a crisis requires certified supply at once, and field logistics where the receiving site may have no loading dock. Certification cannot be relaxed because the deployment is urgent.
A national position, won on tender.
Examination gloves from Eastwest Medico are supplied across the Danish public sector, and sterile surgical gloves to many hospitals. Danish public healthcare procures regionally on published EU tenders, so this position was won contract by contract and is re-tested at every renewal.
Four stages, applied identically whether the order is one pallet or one million boxes. The reason to describe it publicly is that a buyer can check each stage against what we deliver.
Manufacturers are assessed on quality management, delivery capability, environmental and employee-rights compliance, financial strength and reputation. Financial strength is not a formality: when a long-established manufacturer wound down in April 2026, continuity depended on an alternative already being qualified. Assessments are documented and re-reviewed annually.
Our own quality team works at partner factories during production, because leaching time and cure temperature are line settings and a report describes them only after the batch exists. SGS and TÜV provide independent third-party pre-shipment inspection.
Full documentation travels with every product: declarations of conformity under MDR 2017/745 and Regulation (EU) 2016/425, accredited third-party test reports, and manufacturer ISO certificates. Standards are cited by edition, and we check currency separately from content.
Sea and air logistics planned against the call-off schedule, quoted on any Incoterms® 2020 rule. For institutional deliveries we normally supply DAP, so the receiving hospital has one landed price and no customs exposure.
Awards, and what each one tested.
Long-Term Agreement for infection prevention products under RFP/2024/54109, Lot 1: PPE, 25 products. Administered by a procurement service agent on behalf of the framework, which has served 165 countries since 2001.
View the award record →Four-year framework agreement for sterile surgical gloves to the region's hospitals, one of four contracts awarded. Tested as much by the 2026 manufacturer closure as by the original bid.
Read the record →More than one million boxes awarded against larger established European brands, delivered on schedule between spring and June 2022.
Read the record →Prosenso™ BIODEGRADABLE, accelerator-free by formulation, tested to ASTM D5511 at 43.0 % biodegradation in 513 days, holding full medical certification.
Read the record →100 oxygen concentrators delivered in record time during the COVID-19 surge.
Three ISO management systems, audited annually, plus independent pre-shipment verification. Certificates are supplied with any tender submission.
Standards are cited by edition throughout our documentation. Where an edition has been superseded we say so rather than repeat the older citation, as in our standards library.
Planning a tender, framework or relief programme?
Our quality team reviews PPE specifications for public buyers before publication, at no cost. Standards, editions, test methods and the documentation to require.