Designing what is taught, and the approvals a curriculum has to pass
Curriculum development is commissioned against standards that already exist. The buyer has a national or institutional framework specifying learning outcomes, progression between levels and often assessment objectives, and the supplier's job is to produce material that maps to it defensibly. Bids are evaluated on that mapping, on the underpinning pedagogy, and on the subject and assessment expertise of named authors, because the deliverable will be scrutinised by people who know both the subject and the framework.
The approval chain is usually longer than the writing. Draft material goes through subject review, pedagogical review, review for accuracy and bias, and frequently a public or professional consultation before adoption, and in many jurisdictions a curriculum touching history, civics, religion or health is politically sensitive enough that the timetable is not the supplier's to control. Realistic bids price several review cycles and say what happens if the number of cycles exceeds the assumption.
The practical requirements are about use rather than content. Material must work for teachers with varying preparation time, be accessible to learners with disabilities, be available in the required languages with translation that preserves meaning rather than wording, and be deliverable in the conditions schools actually have, including without reliable power or connectivity. Teacher guides, worked examples and training for the people who will deliver it are usually part of the commission, and intellectual property normally transfers to the buyer so that the material can be revised without returning to the author.
This section describes how this category is bought generally, across the public buyers that publish it. The figures elsewhere on this page are measured for this market alone.
Who buys curriculum development in Norway?
GlobalGov holds 27 curriculum development records from 10 distinct buying organisations in Norway. The most frequent publishers are Bærum kommune (8 records); Oslo kommune v/ Utdanningsetaten (4 records); Utdanningsdirektoratet (3 records); Arbeids- Og Velferdsetaten (Nav) (1 record); Asker kommune (1 record); Bergen kommune - Etat for idrett (1 record). Between them the 6 largest account for 67% of everything published, so buying here is concentrated in a few authorities.
| Buying organisation | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Bærum kommune | 8 | 30% |
| Oslo kommune v/ Utdanningsetaten | 4 | 15% |
| Utdanningsdirektoratet | 3 | 11% |
| Arbeids- Og Velferdsetaten (Nav) | 1 | 3.7% |
| Asker kommune | 1 | 3.7% |
| Bergen kommune - Etat for idrett | 1 | 3.7% |
What are curriculum development contracts worth in Norway?
11 of the 27 records publish a contract value. The median is $855,000 and the largest single published value is $7.6M. By size, 7 between $100k and $1M, 4 between $1M and $10M. The remaining 16 publish no value at all, so every figure here describes the priced subset only, and values are as stated by the buyer rather than as finally awarded.
| Contract size | Records | Share of priced |
|---|---|---|
| under $100k | 0 | 0.0% |
| between $100k and $1M | 7 | 64% |
| between $1M and $10M | 4 | 36% |
| above $10M | 0 | 0.0% |
How long do bidders get to respond to curriculum development tenders in Norway?
Across the 5 Norway curriculum development notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 36 days. A quarter of them allowed 32 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 44. Not one of them closed within a fortnight of being published, so the window on this market is consistently workable.
How often are curriculum development tenders published in Norway?
Norway published 7 notices in this category in the last twelve months. Over the last three years there were 17, spread across 19 separate months of activity since 5 October 2021. May is historically the busiest month. No new notice has been published in this category since 26 May 2026, 128 days ago, so treat the figures above as a record of the market rather than as this week's pipeline.
How does Norway compare with other curriculum development markets?
Among the 3 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable curriculum development market, Norway ranks 3rd by number of records. The largest is Italy (369 records against 27 here). Within Norway itself, curriculum development is the 60th largest of the 61 procurement categories tracked here.
Where do the Norway curriculum development records on this page come from?
These 27 records are collected from 1 official source: TED (27). GlobalGov is an independent aggregator and is not affiliated with any of them; each record links back to the notice on its issuing portal. The set is rebuilt nightly, and the counts on this page were taken on 2026-10-01.
Most recent Curriculum Development tenders in Norway
No individual notice in this category currently has a public record page. The market figures above are computed over all 27 records GlobalGov holds for it.
Other procurement categories in Norway
Curriculum Development procurement in other markets
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