The requirement is for a Contractor with expertise in mentoring to design, develop, maintain and support a modern National Mentoring Program (NMP) application for the Department of Justice using a customized version of the Contractor’s existing mentoring software. The new application will replace the existing NMP application and will need to retain the automatic matching functionality which matches mentors with associates (employees who are seeking mentors) and suggests potential pairings based on the profiles created by mentors and associates. The current NMP application is an internal system hosted on the server of the Department of Justice, with connectivity to internal Departmental databases. The new NMP application must be hosted externally on the Contractor's server(s). The new application will not have access or connectivity to internal Department of Justice databases. Rather, mentors and associates will provide data via profiles that they input through a web-based application operated by the Contractor on an external server located in Canada. The automated matching process will use the data provided by the mentors and associates to recommend potential pairings. The new NMP application must be bilingual in accordance with the Official Languages Act and Official Languages Regulations. The new NMP application must also feature a reporting functionality to report detailed mentoring statistics and results to the NMP team at the Department of Justice. Finally, the new NMP application must respect all privacy and security requirements, as well as accessibility standards, of the Government of Canada. For the resulting contract, there will be an initial 1 year contracting period to design, deliver, maintain, operate and support the new NMP application. The Department of Justice reserves the option to extend the contract for up to four (4) additional one year periods.
