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Haiti First
Buy Local. Build Haiti.
Building Markets encourages the international community to buy in Haiti First, before procuring goods and services off-shore to carry out project work.
Buying local builds business, creates jobs and lays the foundation for Haiti’s future.
Tender Directory
Attention Users of Our Tender Directory!
From 11 May 2012, all tenders will be posted on a new website:
Visit www.haiti-tenders.org.
It’s quick and easy! Create an account to access and download documents. Once you have your username and password, you can view and download tenders anytime OR subscribe to receive notifications via SMS or email.
Partners
Partnerships are Key
Building Markets is eager to help exchange best practices, raise awareness about the importance of buying local and to help facilitate the procurement of goods and services in Haiti. If you are interested in partnering with Building Markets, please contact us at: haiti@pdtglobal.org.
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Success Stories
We’re also digitalizing our entire inventory of school books, investing in smart boards, and implementing data backup. We hope to have a transformative effect on the state of education in Haiti.” click here for the entire article
“We work very closely with PDT, and have been fortunate to access their database and win important contracts,” Patricia explained. “We have so many international aid groups in the country, and being able to show these organizations that Haitian companies have the ability and capacity to fulfill these contracts in a timely and orderly fashion is a huge boost to our company and the image of Haiti as well.” click here for the entire article
MGR Papeterie owner Marly Nadine Michel, a single mother of five, struggled in lieu of the quake to sort out her two-year old business, which represented her life savings and sole source of income. Her longtime customers vanished as Haitians struggled for months to cobble together the basic necessities of life. click here to see the entire article.
Peace Dividend Trust encourages organizations op-erating in Haiti to adopt a “Haiti First” approach to procurement by adopting a local procurement policy and engaging with local suppliers. click here to see full article.
Ricardy Gelin started Publist Group in 2008 in Port-au-Prince as a sales and marketing company. But during the reconstruction process in Haiti after the January 2010 earthquake, Gelin recognized the need and the opportunity for companies that could broker logistics services for the many international organizations working in the country. This made Publist a perfect fit for Peace Dividend Marketplace-Haiti and its range of service to link buyers with Haitian suppliers. click here to see entire article
Over the years INDEPCO members have produced everything from school uniforms and backpacks to Digicel aprons. But some of the more modest orders can nevertheless be the lifeblood for a small firm. Click here to read all the article.
“We lost almost everything, and we had no customers,” Marckenson recalled. “We had to start from zero.”
Unable to obtain financing and without resources for advertising, Marckenson turned instead to Peace Dividend Marketplace – Haiti. He registered Metacool on the PDM-H online directory, attended training on the bidding procedures of international organizations, and started responding to the tenders posted on the PDM-H website. click here to read all the article.
“Thanks to PDT we were viewed by the Chinese importer who we are working with as a credible firm, not just some guy with a website claiming to have this and that,” Charles explained. “Haiti can be a difficult environment for a foreign company, there is not a lot of structure to the business community. So companies need to feel that they are dealing with someone credible. We were viewed as having been screened by an international organization.” click here for details
