A concentrated, one-hour technical briefing on how to best compete and avoid mistakes while participating in Multilateral Development Bank (MDB) procurement in 2025/26. This fundamentals session is delivered by Antonietta Poduie, a senior specialist with over thirty years of operational experience in MDB and international public procurement. Her direct, practice-based insights constitute the core added value of the course, ensuring that participants receive authoritative, procedure-driven guidance rather than generic bidding advice.
The session introduces participants to:
How to best monitor, filter, and qualify MDB procurement notices matching them with your experience and capabilities
How to interpret tender documents focusing on ways to meet technical and financial requirements
The importance of evaluation criteria and how to master them to your advantage
The do and don't in the interactions with implementing agencies and the MDBs before, during and after the bidding
Examples of most common mistakes and best practices.
The course provides operational guidance on establishing internal procurement workflows, defining decision gates for bid/no-bid assessments, and preparing technical evidence, CVs, templates, and corporate documentation to reduce turnaround times for future tenders.
Integrating the latest updates on 2025 MDB procurement rules, thresholds, and evaluation practices, this session enables participants to strengthen procedural compliance, improve submission quality, and enhance competitiveness through a more disciplined and technically informed approach to MDB tendering.
Duration:
60 mins
Trainer:
Antonietta Poduie
Trainer Bio:
Antonietta Poduie is a trainer and consultant with more than thirty years experience in international public procurement related to the opportunities financed by the Multilateral Development Bank, the UN and European Institutions.
Former Vice-Presidente of International Development Business Consultants (IDBC) e International Procurement Consultants (IPC) in Washington, D.C. from 1989 until 2001, she lives in Italy providing consulting and training on procurement of goods, works and services to private clients, Chambers of Commerce and Industry Associations, NGOs, Financial Intitutions and emerging countries. She worked as an indipendent consultant and in a team in emerging countries in procurement and collaborated with Multilateral Organizations such as the World Bank and the African Development Bank.
Antonietta holds a degree in Foreign Languages and Literature from the University of Padua, Italy, and an M.A. in Liberal Studies with a concentration in International Studies from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.
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