(1) Vendor needs to provide grant lifecycle management software.– provide technology solution that supports the end–to–end lifecycle of grants from early–stage cultivation and opportunity tracking through proposal development, application submission, award receipt, and compliant award management, reporting and invoicing, and close–out—while improving efficiency, transparency, data accuracy, and cross–departmental coordination.• Track prospects, cultivation activities, deadlines, and multi–year engagement histories.• Allow customizable pipeline stages.• Enable assignment of owners, collaborators, and alerts.• Integrate or store opportunity guidelines, RFP documents, and key requirements.• Support checklists, go/no–go workflows, and decision memos.• Facilitate collaborative narrative drafting, budgeting, and document uploads.• Offer version control and audit trails for multiple users.• Provide configurable workflows for internal approvals (leadership, finance, legal).• Integrate with institutional finance systems.• Track expenditures, obligations, encumbrances, match contributions, and burn rate.• Support both reimbursement and advance–payment grant types.• Produce real–time dashboards and reports• Securely store final reports, budgets, amendments, communications, and evidence of performance.• Project management and implementation plan• Data migration assistance• Configuration and customization• Testing and validation(2) All the questions must be submitted no later than January 5, 2026.