Grand Challenges Canada, funded by the Government of Canada, is committed to using a competitive, transparent and fair process for the procurement of goods, assets and services and to ensuring that it obtains the best value for money for such goods, assets and services.
RFP Humanitarian Energy - Research Consultancy
Creating Hope in Conflict: A Humanitarian Grand Challenge (CHIC) is seeking a Research Consultant/Consultancy Firm with expertise in the humanitarian energy sector to support the Humanitarian Innovation Team for fiscal year 2025-2026. The Research Consultant / Consultancy Firm will be responsible for leading a research project to investigate the enablers, barriers, and best practices for achieving financial sustainability of renewable energy innovations in the humanitarian space.
Please address all bids to Alana Changoor, Associate Director – Knowledge Management and Translation ().
Bids will be accepted until April 21st, 2025, at 11:59 PM EST.
- RFP: Humanitarian Energy - Research Consultancy (pdf, 330.36 KB)
Bid Solicitation: Child Development Learning Platform
Grand Challenges Canada’s Child Development Portfolio comprising the Saving Brains and Play Learn Thrive Portfolios is seeking a service provider to support its innovator support learning platform for fiscal year 2025-2026 with the possibility of extension. The selected provider will offer technical assistance and foster an active, innovator-driven learning community to support innovators along their scaling journey, ultimately improving the lives of young children in low- and middle-income countries and emergency contexts.
Please address all bids to Child Development Team ().
Bids will be accepted until March 31, 2025 at 5pm EST.
- Bid Solicitation: Child Development Learning Platform (pdf, 1.17 MB)
- Child Development RFP - FAQs (pdf, 5.93 MB)
Bid Solicitation: Evaluation Services Advancing Indigenous Gender Equality
The Indigenous Innovation Initiative (I3) is seeking the services of an external evaluator to partner in undertaking a developmental evaluation of I3’s current funding program and to support improving and iterating the I3 platform to allow for continuous adaptation as the program grows and evolves.
The developmental evaluation will be a collaborative process conducted during program implementation in 2024/2025. The objective is to use the findings to refine I3’s platform processes, inform planning and process adjustments for future program implementation, and inform forthcoming funding rounds.
Please address all bids to Nabeela Jivraj, Knowledges Mobilization Manager, Indigenous Innovation Initiative (Kathryn Manners, Deputy Director, Indigenous Innovation Initiative (and submit via this online form.
Bids will be accepted until December 11th, 2024 at 5:00PM ET.
- Bid Solicitation: Evaluation Services Advancing Indigenous Gender Equality (PDF) (pdf, 907.22 KB)
- Demande de soumissions : Services d’évaluation Promouvoir l’égalité des genres chez les Autochtones (PDF) (pdf, 997.36 KB)
- FAQs - WaGE Evaluation RFP (pdf, 236.33 KB)