E-LEARNING CONTENT

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.