Year 2 – One online Submission Platform

GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT NETWORK (GDN) SPECIFIC PROCUREMENT NOTICE / REQUEST FOR QUOTATIONS (RFQ) COMMERCIAL OFF-THE-SHELF (COTS) SOFTWARE AS A SERVICE 1. Background & Purpose of Financing The Global Development Network (GDN) has received financing from the Policy and Human Resources Development (PHRD) Fund, administered by the World Bank, toward the cost of the Global Development Awards Competition. GDN intends to apply a portion of the proceeds to procure an annual enterprise subscription for a commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) cloud-based Online Submission Platform (Software as a Service) to manage global application intake, double-blind peer review routing, and evaluation workflows for the 2020 edition of the Japanese Award for Outstanding Research on Development (ORD). 2. Scope of Procurement & Minimum Technical Specifications Based on operational requirements and learnings from the prior competition cycle, the requested software must be immediately deployable, accessible globally via standard web browsers, and satisfy the following core technical requirements: Unlimited Intake & Scalability: Architecture and pricing structured to support an unlimited number of applications, user accounts, and competition categories under a fixed annual enterprise rate, without incurring per-entry or per-select module overages. Double-Blind Review Routing: Automated backend workflow management capable of strictly anonymizing applicant profiles and identities during peer-reviewer scoring and committee selection cycles. Data Security & GDPR Compliance: Full enterprise adherence to General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) standards, including secure cloud data hosting, encryption, and automated backups. Administrative Access & Reporting: Role-based dashboard access for GDN Awards administrators and IT staff to extract raw submission data and dynamic scoring matrices in standard exportable formats (.csv, .xlsx). 3. Commercial Terms & Delivery Requirements Quantity: One (1) Annual Enterpri