Contracting unit: - Office of the Chief Scientist, CGIAR System Organisation
Budget Ceiling: - USD 30,000 (all-inclusive; competitive open call)
Duration: - 6-8 weeks
2027 milestone: - Blueprint endorsed; build procurement decision made
Delivery lead: - Portfolio Performance and Results Team (PPT)
Oversight: - Steering Group (Office of the Chief Scientist, DTA, Digital)
Deadline for Applications: - 8 September 2026, 23:59hrs (Paris time GMT+2)
Background
The Performance & Results Management System (PRMS) is CGIAR's core infrastructure for portfolio planning, results reporting, quality assurance, adaptive management, risk management and accountability. It was identified in the CGIAR Performance and Results Management Framework as a common system housing planning, theory of change management, stage-gate decision points, and annual reporting — with linked datasets, an integrated dashboard for funders and management, and access aligned to international standards. A February 2021 Accenture fit-for-purpose assessment translated this into implementation requirements:
integrated business applications, standardized data definitions across CGIAR systems, and comprehensive onboarding of end users. CGIAR invested approximately USD 800k per year to build and run that system during the period 2022-25, with joint Independent Advisory and Internal Audit review during rollout to ensure delivery against specification.
The PRMS was built for a context of relatively stable institutional requirements: a defined set of manual inputs, largely from Window 1/2 funding, processed sequentially — each stage waiting for the previous — to produce a predetermined set of outputs on a predictable cycle. Bespoke requests that fell outside those predetermined outputs required specialists to extract value case by case. That design was rational for the conditions in which it was built. Five shifts prompt a redesign.
The first is the nature of demand. The portfolio now requires dynamic, on-dem