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In 2017, construction and engineering was a $2 billion sector for the United Nations. The main category within this sector is building and facility maintenance and repair services with a total volume of $572.2 million with the largest procurement coming from International Organization for Migration with 33.3 percent of total procurement in that category. United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is the largest procuring organization, however, with 26.8 percent of total procurement within this sector. UNHCR procured more than 90 percent of both structural materials and lamps and lightbulbs and lamp components. The United States was the second main supplier country for construction and engineering, with $137.9 million of the total spent in this category, or about 7% of the total.

2017 United Nations Procurement – Construction and Engineering Sector – Top 10 Subcategories

Categories

Total 2017 ProcuremenT (in $ millions)

Largest procuring organization

Largest organization 2017 procurement (in $ millions)

Largest organization’s % share of total 2017 procurement

Building and Facility Maintenance and Repair Services

572.2

IOM

190.7

33.3%

Professional Engineering Services

376.8

UNDP

266.2

70.6%

Nonresidential Building Construction Services

229.6

UNPD

63.5

27.7%

Specialized Trade Construction and Maintenance Services

157.1

UNPD

92.5

58.9%

Heavy Construction Services

71.3

UNOPS

33.3

46.7%

Prefabricated Building and Structures

68.1

UNPD

46.0

67.6%

Portable Buildings and Structures

35.1

UNPD

34.4

97.9%

Lamps and Lightbulbs and Lamp Components

28.9

UNHCR

27.5

95.1%

Residential Building Construction Services

24.6

UNRWA

12.7

51.5%

Structural Materials

24.6

UNHCR

23.2

94.4%

Top 10 Total

1,588.3

 

789.9

 

Grand Total

2,042.4

 

 

 

Source: 2017 Annual Statistical Report on United Nations

https://content.unops.org/publications/ASR/ASR-2017_EN.pdf?mtime=20180619124706

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