The purpose of this Negotiated Request for Proposal (NRFP) is to solicit proposals from qualified Respondents for the provision, licensing, hosting, maintenance, and ongoing support of a modern Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Student Information System (SIS) solution for the University of Lethbridge.
The University is seeking a solution that will modernize core administrative and student-facing processes, reduce manual workarounds, improve data quality, strengthen reporting and analytics, enable self-service, and support more consistent processes across academic and administrative units.
The objectives of this initiative include:
- Reducing reliance on paper forms, spreadsheets, manual and email-based approvals, duplicate data entry, and ancillary systems in favour of workflows, digital forms, and automation within the proposed solution(s).
- Establishing stronger system-of-record capabilities for financial, employee, vendor, student, academic, and institutional data.
- Improving business process standardization while allowing necessary variation where required by policy, collective agreement, or regulatory requirements.
- Providing secure, role-based, self-service capabilities for students, applicants, academic staff, administrative staff, managers, budget owners, advisors, and other authorized users.
- Supporting Canadian public-sector, post-secondary, privacy, accessibility, reporting, payroll, procurement, tax, and compliance obligations.
- Providing a scalable, supportable, configurable solution that minimizes unnecessary customization and supports future institutional growth and transformation.
- Provide systems and processes that support accessibility and inclusion for a diverse employee and student body.
