Invitation to bid.
NRC operates in 40+ countries delivering assistance to displacement-affected populations through programme activities such as shelter, WASH, education, ICLA, protection, livelihoods and multi-purpose cash. NRC currently has global digital systems for data collection (NRC Collect based on KoboToolbox), and global reporting (GORS based on DHIS2).
Since 2015, NRC has pursued ways to unify programme data systems. Early efforts were fragmented. In 2022, NRC relaunched the CORE project under the Global Programme Section (GPS) with a new governance model and a commitment to address systemic limitations in existing approaches.
Purpose of the 2025 Pilot
The pilot is the first real-world deployment of CORE. It is explicitly designed as a gating point to inform NRC’s strategic decision: Should NRC scale CORE, adopt a modular/federated approach, or discontinue in favour of lighter offthe-shelf solutions?
Overarching Purpose
To conduct an independent, mixed-methods evaluation of the CORE V2 Pilot to determine:
• Whether CORE meets the functional, operational, and architectural criteria required for scale.
• Whether it delivers measurable advantages over existing or alternative tools.
• Whether NRC can sustainably maintain and govern the system.
• Whether the investment and TCO are justified relative to sector realities.
Application process and requirements:
Applications must include:
• Proposal and methodological considerations with indicative workplan, maximum 5 pages
• Comments on the ToR
• Detailed budget
• CVs of team members
• Sample of similar previous work
Maximum considered bid value will be 20,000 USD.
Please submit bids before 10-Dec-2025.
Submit bids to steve.hallam@nrc.no
Please see the document below for additional information.
