Solvoz Foundation exists to strengthen procurement in the non-profit, humanitarian and development sectors. We believe that procurement knowledge should be open, market access should be fair, and every euro spent through aid and development programmes should contribute not only to delivery, but also to stronger local systems.
Many mission-driven organisations face the same structural challenge: they need to source goods and services responsibly, often under pressure, but the knowledge, supplier visibility and procurement infrastructure needed to do this well are fragmented. The result is duplication, limited comparability, missed opportunities for local sourcing and unnecessary pressure on already stretched teams.
The Foundation works to change this by developing and maintaining open-access procurement knowledge, supporting shared sourcing infrastructure, and helping non-profit actors use procurement as a practical lever for localisation, transparency, sustainability and value for money.
Solvoz Foundation is a Netherlands-based non-profit foundation established to support more responsible, effective and inclusive procurement in international aid and development cooperation.
We work from the belief that procurement is one of the most underused levers for impact. The way organisations buy determines not only what is delivered, but also which suppliers are seen, which local markets are strengthened, how transparent spending becomes, and how much long-term value is created from limited resources.
Our role is to make procurement knowledge and market infrastructure more accessible to the organisations that need it most: NGOs, humanitarian agencies, development actors, local organisations and other mission-driven institutions.
Built for the sector, governed for public benefit
Solvoz Foundation operates independently as a non-profit foundation, with its own mission, governance, programmes and financial decision-making.
The Foundation develops and supports open-access procurement knowledge, fair market access, supplier inclusion, shared sourcing initiatives and other programmes that strengthen humanitarian, development and non-profit supply chains.
Where programmes require digital tools, specialist expertise or other external services, the Foundation may work with service providers and sector partners selected on the basis of programme need, suitability, quality, continuity, value for money and the Foundation’s public-benefit objectives. No commercial provider has an automatic, exclusive, preferred or default role within the Foundation.
In Foundation-supported programmes, supplier, SME and manufacturer registration is free, helping to lower barriers to visibility and participation for local and regional market actors.
