CONTRACT-A57D-LC4XZN

Introduction.

The Authority are seeking to procure a software application / service to support the delivery of learning to the employees of the Authority, partner organisations and external parties. This requirement shall be henceforward referred to as the Learning Management system (LMS). The purpose of this document is to detail the Authority's business and technical requirements of the LMS and is intended to be used to assess the suitability of tender responses to meet those requirements.

Background.

The Authority's current Learning Management System is used to manage the scheduled booking and attendance of facilitated training and delivery of e-learning. The service Provider provides the Authority with an externally hosted LMS, which includes an e-learning authoring tool available to the whole organisation and a repository of e-learning materials developed in partnership with other Local Authorities that can be accessed via the LMS service with source files available enabling each customer to bespoke a pre-canned course to their own organisation.

The current contract for the LMS service is coming to an end and the Authority would like to procure a replacement application / service that will replace the current provision and introduce new functionality considered essential to improve the delivery of Learning. The estimated go live date for the system to be fully implemented is 1.7.2016.

The Authority currently use Oracle e-Business suite (EBS) for:

— General Ledger, Procurement, Accounts Payable, Human Resources, Payroll and Employee Self Service.

Included in the current Oracle licence holding are 3 000 EBS Learning Management Trainee perpetual licences, which are currently not used. Any options that add to this will also be considered.