U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE
EXPRESSION OF INTEREST (EOI)
DESIGN, DEVELOPMENT AND DEPLOYMENT OF A NATIONAL LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (LMS) AND DIGITAL E-LIBRARY, INCLUDING DEVELOPMENT OF DIGITAL LEARNING CONTENT
1. BACKGROUND
The National Health Logistics Management ecosystem generates and supports a significant body of knowledge, tools, guidelines, standard operating procedures, training materials and operational lessons related to health commodity and supply chain management in Nigeria. However, this knowledge is dispersed across different programmes, platforms, documents and institutional repositories, making it difficult for users to consistently access, learn from and apply relevant information and ensure a sustainable flow of expertise and skill.
To address this gap, NPSCMP AND GHSC-PSM NIGERIA are establishing an integrated Learning Management System (LMS) and Digital E-Library that will contribute to a national knowledge and learning platform for health supply chain stakeholders. The platform will provide a single, searchable national repository for health supply chain knowledge, while transforming available knowledge into structured, interactive and measurable learning.
The platform is expected to be built using open-source technologies, with Moodle as the preferred LMS, and hosted on Government-controlled infrastructure to promote sustainability, institutional ownership, data sovereignty, interoperability and long-term maintainability. The platform must be operable, maintainable, and extensible by Government personnel from the point of handover in March 2027, without recourse to the developer.
Alongside the platform itself, the LMS requires high-quality digital learning content. The technical topics and source materials already held by GHSC-PSM must be transformed into engaging, interactive, learner-centered digital courses, applying recognized instructional design and adult learning principles, before the platform can deliver meaningful training to the health supply chain workforce.
2. PROJECT OBJECTIVE
2.1 Objective
At the end of the assignment, the client should have a fully functional, secure, Government-hosted National Health Supply Chain Digital Knowledge and Learning Platform, populated with high-quality digital learning content, comprising:
Digital E-Library: a centralized, searchable, and governed repository containing the country’s health supply chain knowledge, guidance, tools, manuals, SOPs, reports, and learning resources.
Learning Management System: a structured, interactive learning environment through which users can undertake role-based courses, complete assessments, receive certificates, and track their learning and competency development.
Digital Learning Content: a set of engaging, instructionally sound courses, transformed from approved GHSC-PSM source materials, ready for delivery through the LMS.
The specific objectives of the assignment are to:
– Design and establish the technical architecture for the LMS and Digital E-Library.
– Configure and customize an appropriate open-source LMS and digital library platform, at Moodle-class maturity or better for capacity, scalability, customization, mobile access, and tools interactivity and management.
– Establish a centralized, searchable repository for health supply chain knowledge and resources.
– Develop structured, role-based learning pathways for different categories of users.
– Review, assess and transform the GHSC-PSM course topics and their source content into high-quality, engaging, interactive and learner-centred digital learning courses, applying recognized instructional design and adult learning principles.
– Enable self-paced e-learning, assessments, certification and progress tracking.
– Enable secure hosting on Government-controlled infrastructure
– Ensure appropriate integration, interoperability and data exchange with relevant systems where required.
– Establish appropriate user management, role-based access and security controls.
– Conduct comprehensive functional, technical, security, performance and user acceptance testing of the platform, and technical, instructional and editorial quality assurance of the digital learning content
– Train designated Government administrators, content managers and end users in the management and use of the platform.
– Provide complete technical and system documentation, and all editable content source files, to facilitate Government ownership and sustainability.
– Transfer technical knowledge and system administration capabilities to designated Government personnel.
– Ensure conformance with recognized e-learning interoperability standards (SCORM, xAPI) so that learning content and learner records remain portable.
– Ensure the platform and its content conform to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 Level AA and the Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) 2.0.
– Ingest, tag and publish the initial corpus of e-library content, and configure the approved taxonomy.
– Ensure that all technical requirements, content and deliverables under this assignment are reviewed and signed off.
2.2 Project Scope
The assignment comprises five workstreams, covering both platform development and digital content development, to be delivered as one integrated engagement;
– Workstream 1: Platform design, specifications and architecture
– Workstream 2: Platform build and configuration
– Workstream 3: Digital content development and instructional design
– Workstream 4: Security, testing and deployment
– Workstream 5: Training, documentation, and knowledge transfer
3. ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS
The assignment should be undertaken by a firm, consortium, or established team demonstrating the full range of competencies below, covering platform development and digital content development, either within a single organization or as a consortium meeting the requirements and bidding jointly as one proposal.
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