diff --git a/Directory.Build.props b/Directory.Build.props
index c815af2041b714..790ee76a351374 100644
--- a/Directory.Build.props
+++ b/Directory.Build.props
@@ -253,7 +253,6 @@
     <PackageProjectUrl>https://dot.net</PackageProjectUrl>
     <Owners>microsoft,dotnetframework</Owners>
     <IncludeSymbols>true</IncludeSymbols>
-    <RuntimeIdGraphDefinitionFile>$([MSBuild]::NormalizePath('$(LibrariesProjectRoot)', 'Microsoft.NETCore.Platforms', 'src', 'runtime.json'))</RuntimeIdGraphDefinitionFile>
     <LicenseFile>$(MSBuildThisFileDirectory)LICENSE.TXT</LicenseFile>
     <PackageLicenseExpression>MIT</PackageLicenseExpression>
     <PackageRequireLicenseAcceptance>false</PackageRequireLicenseAcceptance>
diff --git a/eng/liveBuilds.targets b/eng/liveBuilds.targets
index d62f4bcd438d8c..0834d63b159424 100644
--- a/eng/liveBuilds.targets
+++ b/eng/liveBuilds.targets
@@ -193,6 +193,8 @@
   </Target>
 
   <PropertyGroup>
-    <BundledRuntimeIdentifierGraphFile>$(RuntimeIdGraphDefinitionFile)</BundledRuntimeIdentifierGraphFile>
+    <!-- Keep in sync with outputs defined in Microsoft.NETCore.Platforms.csproj. -->
+    <BundledRuntimeIdentifierGraphFile>$([MSBuild]::NormalizePath('$(ArtifactsBinDir)', 'Microsoft.NETCore.Platforms', 'runtime.json'))</BundledRuntimeIdentifierGraphFile>
+    <BundledRuntimeIdentifierGraphFile Condition="!Exists('$(BundledRuntimeIdentifierGraphFile)')">$([MSBuild]::NormalizePath('$(LibrariesProjectRoot)', 'Microsoft.NETCore.Platforms', 'src', 'runtime.json'))</BundledRuntimeIdentifierGraphFile>
   </PropertyGroup>
 </Project>
diff --git a/src/libraries/Microsoft.NETCore.Platforms/src/Microsoft.NETCore.Platforms.csproj b/src/libraries/Microsoft.NETCore.Platforms/src/Microsoft.NETCore.Platforms.csproj
index ac2b2cf5cf45e7..870fb1d3363bb9 100644
--- a/src/libraries/Microsoft.NETCore.Platforms/src/Microsoft.NETCore.Platforms.csproj
+++ b/src/libraries/Microsoft.NETCore.Platforms/src/Microsoft.NETCore.Platforms.csproj
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
 
   <ItemGroup>
     <Content Condition="'$(AdditionalRuntimeIdentifiers)' == ''" Include="runtime.json" PackagePath="/" />
-    <Content Condition="'$(AdditionalRuntimeIdentifiers)' != ''" Include="$(IntermediateOutputPath)runtime.json" PackagePath="/" />
+    <Content Condition="'$(AdditionalRuntimeIdentifiers)' != ''" Include="$(BaseOutputPath)runtime.json" PackagePath="/" />
     <Content Include="$(PlaceholderFile)" PackagePath="lib/netstandard1.0" />
   </ItemGroup>
 
@@ -50,12 +50,12 @@
     <PackageReference Include="NuGet.ProjectModel" Version="$(NugetProjectModelVersion)" />
   </ItemGroup>
 
-  <Target Name="GenerateRuntimeJson" Condition="'$(AdditionalRuntimeIdentifiers)' != ''" BeforeTargets="GenerateNuspec">
+  <Target Name="GenerateRuntimeJson" AfterTargets="Build" Condition="'$(AdditionalRuntimeIdentifiers)' != ''">
     <MakeDir Directories="$(IntermediateOutputPath)" />
     <GenerateRuntimeGraph RuntimeGroups="@(RuntimeGroupWithQualifiers)"
                           AdditionalRuntimeIdentifiers="$(AdditionalRuntimeIdentifiers)"
                           AdditionalRuntimeIdentifierParent="$(AdditionalRuntimeIdentifierParent)"
-                          RuntimeJson="$(IntermediateOutputPath)runtime.json"
+                          RuntimeJson="$(BaseOutputPath)runtime.json"
                           UpdateRuntimeFiles="True" />
   </Target>
 
diff --git a/src/libraries/pretest.proj b/src/libraries/pretest.proj
index fc2fee13d5c33c..ee94735234672a 100644
--- a/src/libraries/pretest.proj
+++ b/src/libraries/pretest.proj
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@
           Condition="'$(BuildTargetFramework)' == '$(NetCoreAppCurrent)' or '$(BuildTargetFramework)' == ''">
     <!-- Shared framework deps file generation. Produces a test shared-framework deps file. -->
     <GenerateTestSharedFrameworkDepsFile SharedFrameworkDirectory="$(NetCoreAppCurrentTestHostSharedFrameworkPath)"
-                                         RuntimeGraphFiles="$(RuntimeIdGraphDefinitionFile)"
+                                         RuntimeGraphFiles="$(BundledRuntimeIdentifierGraphFile)"
                                          TargetRuntimeIdentifier="$(PackageRID)" />
   </Target>