Governance, Risk and Compliance Software
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SUMMARY
KEY REQUIREMENTS
CONTRACT DURATION
TIMELINE
Publication Date: August 17th, 2026
Deadline for Questions: August 31st, 2026
Bidder Submission Due Date: September 9th, 2026
QUESTION DEADLINE
CONTACTS
Primary procurement contact — name, title, email, and phone
Additional decision-makers and their departments
Issuing Agency
The University Of Tennessee
DESCRIPTION
The agency seeks a comprehensive Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) software platform for use across its environment. The platform must represent university entities through a hierarchical organizational model, such as system, campus, college, department, and sub-department, and allow assets to be assigned to any level of that hierarchy.
Required capabilities include risk assessments and lifecycle management; control assessments that influence associated risks; control-based compliance assessments for assets and organizational levels; risk and control inheritance; data, assessment, notification, and reporting automation; and questionnaire-based or simplified assessment interfaces. The platform must facilitate collaboration between assessors and respondents through comments, questions, task assignment, mitigation tracking, and issue flagging.
The solution must provide role-based access aligned with the organizational hierarchy, built-in dashboards and reports, flexible filtering across relevant data fields, and visibility into risk posture and compliance status at any organizational level through hierarchical aggregation. It must also integrate with other risk management tools or provide equivalent native functionality, scale across multiple campuses, entities, and assets with a small centralized administrative team, support multi-factor authentication, and maintain a SOC 2 Type II or equivalent attestation. The contract period is three years, and all questions must be submitted by August 31, 2026.
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Frequently asked questions
- When is the submission deadline?
- Submissions are due September 9, 2026. Questions must be submitted by August 31, 2026.
- Who issued this RFP?
- It was issued by The University Of Tennessee. The work is located in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States.
- Who is a good fit for this opportunity?
- Established GRC software provider with enterprise and higher-education experience
- Demonstrated expertise in risk management, compliance assessments, controls, and workflow automation
- Scalable SaaS platform supporting complex hierarchical organizations and centralized administration
- SOC 2 Type II or equivalent security attestation and robust MFA capabilities
- Experience integrating with risk management and related enterprise systems
- Strong implementation, training, and ongoing support capabilities
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