Trade Agreement: NONE
Tendering Procedures: All interested suppliers may submit a bid
Attachment: YES (MERX) Electronic
Competitive Procurement Strategy: N/A - P&A/LOI Only
Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement: No
Nature of Requirements:
Request for Information for Canada School of Public Service
("The School")
E-Content Requirement
0X001-130408/A
Duret, Greg
Telephone No. - (819) 956-0149
Fax No. - (819) 956-9235
Purpose of this RFI
The School wants to build libraries of e-learning content
including a catalogue of online courses to offer a broad choice
of instructional materials to Federal Public Servants for
professional development purposes. It is anticipated that a
competitive RFP for the E-Content requirement will be issued in
the future.
Nature of Request for Information
This is not a bid solicitation. This RFI will not result in the
award of any contract; therefore, potential suppliers of any
goods or services described in this RFI should not earmark stock
or facilities, nor allocate resources, as a result of any
information contained in this RFI.
This RFI is not a prequalification process and will not result
in the creation of any source list; therefore, whether or not
any potential supplier responds to this RFI will not preclude
that supplier from participating in any future procurement.
Also, the procurement of any of the goods and services described
in this RFI will not necessarily follow this RFI. This RFI is
simply intended to solicit feedback from industry with respect
to the matters described in this RFI.
Canada reserves the right to change at any time, any or all of
the technical requirements stated in this RFI
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 designs, develops and delivers knowledge-based
classroom learning through calendar (open enrollment) courses,
memoranda of understanding (MOU) with departments and agencies,
and customized modules that respond to central agency or
departmental requirements, or the needs of functional
communities (e.g., Finance, Communications, Procurement).
Specifically, the School's Learning Program Branch (LPB) is
responsible for designing and delivering individual courses as
well as programs to public servants across Canada. Learning
activities are developed in consultation with central agencies,
functional communities, or though e-learning courseware
developed by the School or available from suppliers.
Currently, the School operates a Learning Management System
(branded as the iLMS) and provides user accounts on this system
to more than 250 000 public servants. The iLMS is primarily used
as a registration, tracking system and billing for the School's
classroom deliveries and events. In addition, this system
enables users to access a catalogue of approximately 300
self-paced online courses which are licensed from suppliers or
have been custom developed by the School, via XHTML and SCORM
1.2 or via Rapid e-learning tools, such as Articulate.
Consequently, the School is building an e-School portal using
web-based technologies. The portal will include:
- the School's Integrated Learning Management System (iLMS);
- a user-friendly front-end interface to search for e-learning
content;
- an infrastructure to deliver the content; and
- A single-sign-on integration to bridge different applications
together.
The School's Clients for the e-School are Federal Departments
and Agencies identified in the Financial Act Schedule 1, 2 and
4. More information about the School can be found at the
following address: http://csps-efpc.gc.ca/index-eng.aspx
The School wants to build libraries of e-learning content
including a catalogue of online courses to offer a broad choice
of instructional materials to Federal Public Servants for
professional development purposes. The content should be
available on-demand, provide self-directed learning
opportunities, and be accessible through Government workstations
and mobile devices.
The School also wishes to access the content in various delivery
modes, more specifically:
· Self-paced courseware;
· Video-based learning;
· E-books;
· Audio-based learning; and
· Performance support tools.
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.
