Online Language Training

Health Canada (HC) and the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) requires the provision of an online Second Languages Training and Tutoring Services for HC and PHAC employees. The objective is for the Offeror to provide a licensed online language training software solution to HC and PHAC employees that offers a fully interactive, modular based, second language training program in Canadian English and French, which includes: audio/video segments, self-scoring tests, exercises, reference manuals; and optional telephone tutoring services from qualified instructors. This second language training program is to align with the language profile levels A, B and C in writing, oral communication and comprehension, in accordance with the Qualification Standards in Relation to Official Languages of the Government of Canada. The program is to be provided so employees can forgo their training through self-study with or without telephone tutoring services.  This Request for Standing Offer intended to result in the award of one (1) contract for a period of three (3) years, plus two (2) additional one (1) year irrevocable options allowing Canada to extend the term of the contract. The Request for Standing Offers (RFSO) is to establish National Master Standing Offers for the requirement detailed in the RFSO, to the Identified Users across Canada, excluding locations within Yukon, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Quebec, and Labrador that are subject to Comprehensive Land Claims Agreements (CLCAs). Any requirement for deliveries to locations within CLCAs areas within Yukon, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Quebec, or Labrador will have to be treated as a separate procurement, outside of the resulting standing offers.