Learning Management System for NICE (this notice replaces notice published 29/09/2015)

1. Introduction

NICE, established under the Health and Social Care Act 2012, is the executive Non Departmental Public Body responsible for providing guidance and advice to support health and social care commissioners, providers and others to make sure that the care and preventative services provided are of the best possible quality and offers the best value for money. NICE has a statutory role that encompasses the development of quality standards, advice, information and recommendations about NHS, public health and social care services. NICE provides independent, evidence-based guidance on the most effective ways to prevent, diagnose and treat disease and ill health and reduce health inequalities, and operates an independent accreditation programme to validate the guidance production of external organisations. Documents describing the methods and process employed by NICE are available from the NICE’s website (available at www.nice.org.uk ).

NICE is seeking bids through this invitation to tender to select a supplier to provide a for a period of 3 years from contract award, with an option to extend for a further 2 x 12 months.

Please note: we welcome bids for all of the services set out in the specification. The total budget for this contract is £60,000 including initial set up fees (excluding VAT).

2. Background

NICE is seeking to implement a Learning Management System to provide management information about all training and development records for approximately 600 employees. The desired Learning Management System is to include capability for booking, recording and reporting all development activity and for this to automatically feed into performance appraisals through the system. Our current systems are limited. They rely on the manual processing of data which is difficult to reconcile and is administratively a burden for managers and HR. Our current methods allow for very limited or no user self-service