Year 3 – One online Submission Platform

GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT NETWORK (GDN) SPECIFIC PROCUREMENT NOTICE / REQUEST FOR QUOTATIONS (RFQ) NON-CONSULTING SERVICES: COMMERCIAL OFF-THE-SHELF (COTS) SOFTWARE AS A SERVICE Project Title: Global Development Awards Competition 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 competition cycle. 2. Scope of Procurement & Predefined Required Features To ensure robust competition management and global applicant accessibility, prospective platform solutions were evaluated against a predefined list of core mandatory features: Unlimited Intake Architecture: System capacity and licensing structured to accommodate high-volume application intake across multiple competition categories without incurring per-entry or per-module overages. Double-Blind Review Workflows: Automated backend routing capable of strictly anonymizing applicant identities and profiles during multi-stage peer-reviewer scoring and committee selection cycles. Data Security & GDPR Compliance: Enterprise-grade data encryption, automated routine backups, and full adherence to General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) standards. Administrative Data Management: Secure backend dashboard access for GDN Award Administrators and IT staff to extract raw submission data and real-time evaluation scoring matrices in standard exportable formats (.csv, .xlsx). 3. Costing Categories & Commercial Terms Vendors were requested to submit standard published commercial schedules or direct enterprise quotations structured under pre-set annual