Trade Agreement: NONE
Tendering Procedures: All interested suppliers may submit a bid
Competitive Procurement Strategy: N/A - P&A/LOI Only
Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement: No
Nature of Requirements:
REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI)
FOR
COMMERCIAL OFF THE SHELF (COTS) E-LEARNING CONTENT
FOR
THE CANADA SCHOOL OF PUBLIC SERVICE
Background
The School is the common learning service provider for the
Public Service of Canada. It was created to bring a unified
approach to serving the common learning and development needs of
public servants and to help ensure that all public service
employees across Canada have the knowledge and skills they need
to meet the challenges of the public sector of the 21st century.
The School supports meeting the learning needs of the Public
Service of Canada through training and development that enables
the Public Service community to meet evolving challenges in
fulfilling their mission of serving Canada and Canadians. The
School is committed to promoting a strong corporate culture in
the Public Service, fostering a culture of learning, and being a
catalyst and resource for the ongoing development of the Public
Service as a learning organization.
The School manages the operations of a learning portal and
learning management system for federal public servants. The
learning portal is the delivery site for all e-learning content
offered by the School, including e-learning self-paced courses,
videos, blogs, performance support tools and a wide range of
e-learning resources. The e-learning content offered will be a
mix of products developed internally by the School and
commercial off-the-shelf content. The e-learning content will
be offered by the School at no cost to end users. While there
are a total of approximately 260,000 public servants, a
segmented approach to accessing the different types of content
is expected based on the needs of the various communities of
practice.
As part of its objective to broaden the range of e-learning
content available to public servants, the School requires
commercial off-the-shelf self-paced e-learning and video based
learning content to add to its learning portal in specific
subject domains that match the common learning needs of the
public service.
More information about the School can be found on its website at
the following address: http://www.csps
-efpc.gc.ca/index-eng.aspx
Objective
The purpose of the RFI is to provide industry with an early
opportunity to assess and comment on requirements, procurement
strategy, evaluation criteria and basis of payment in order to
maximize best value to Canada, while reducing potential problems
when the bid solicitation is posted.
This feedback will assist Canada in finalizing the requirements
of the bid solicitation. The RFI information herein will also
provide potential Service Providers an update on the procurement
in preparation for the eventual bid solicitation.
Requirement Definition
The information provided by Canada in this RFI is preliminary
and may change. The final procurement approach may differ
depending on responses to the RFI and other factors as the
procurement process develops. This RFI is not a bid
solicitation nor will it be used to pre-qualify or otherwise
restrict participation in any future bid solicitation. A
contract will not result from this RFI. Responses will not be
formally evaluated.
Potential bidders may use this RFI to make known their comments
on the draft Statement of Work, proposed procurement approach
and methodology, potential evaluation and selection criteria or
any other aspect of the requirement.
Suppliers are to send their written comments in response to this
RFI by e-mail to the Contracting Authority named herein no later
than 2:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) on August 24, 2015.
Scheduled Webinar
A webinar will be held on August 17, 2015.
Delivery Date: Above-mentioned
The Crown retains the right to negotiate with suppliers on any
procurement.
Documents may be submitted in either official language of Canada.
