BACKGROUND
The Materiel Group of the Department of National Defence (DND) has a requirement for project management training that follows the knowledge framework documented in the Project Management Institute’s (PMI’s) Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide).
REQUIREMENT
The period of the contract, if awarded, will be approximately three and a half years (based on up to six months after contract award to produce the course packages and three years of course delivery), followed by a one-year option period for further course delivery. The course delivery of the period of the contract will be 12 courses per year and for the option period will be approximately 12-18 courses. The course content must be deliverable in 52 hours of classroom time over eight days.
Tasks and Deliverables are detailed in Annex “A” of the Request for Proposal.
Mandatory Criteria include, but are not limited to, the following:
1) The Bidder must be a Project Management Institute (PMI) Registered Education Provider (REP) in good standing.
2) The Bidder must have an established capability to develop and deliver Project Management training in both English and French.
3) The Bidder must have delivered within the last two (2) years, a course or combination of courses which jointly cover, at a detailed level, content found in the current Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) related to each process that comprise all of the following Knowledge Areas:
- Project Integration Management;
- Project Scope Management;
- Project Time Management;
- Project Cost Management;
- Project Risk Management; and
- Project Stakeholder Management
4) The Bidder must provide evidence that PMI Professional Development Units (PDUs) were awarded for the courses referenced in support of meeting the requirements of 3).
The Mandatory Criteria are detailed in the Request for Proposal (RFP).
Where this notice and the RFP differ, the RFP will prevail.
The Department of National Defence reserves the right not to award a Contract, regardless of the responses it receives.
