Logic Learning is a small software engineering company specialising in designing and developing e-learning functionality. Having only ten employees, the company relies on a steady flow of public sector contracts to ensure its continued viability. Logic Learning has an excellent reputation in the industry, but its revenue has been hit by cuts in public spending, and as a consequence it has recently posted an annual loss for the first time in ten years of trading. A government department has recently set up a new agency whose purpose will be to provide online training for unemployed people. The idea is that this training will help people to develop a range of skills with the overall aim of helping them get back into work. Courses will be developed in all aspects of the job-hunting process , including designing an effective CV, looking for job adverts, filling in job applications, interview technique, and so on. There may also be courses in basic numeracy, literacy and IT skills. Learning Logic has a good pedigree in designing and developing courses of this general kind, and creating a good relationship with the new agency could lead to an excellent ongoing source of income for the company. The Managing Director of Logic Learning has background in software engineering and learning design. She looks over the first Invitation to Tender (ITT) that has been released by the new agency - for a course in CV design - with a view to developing a bid. The course has eight definite learning outcomes , and the person who has written the ITT has stipulated that each of these learning outcomes should be assessed using a different method of assessment in order to provide variety for the user. In the MDs opinion, however, this amount of variety in assessment is far too complex for a course of this length. Not only will it make assessment less effective overall, it is also likely to result in a learner experience that is annoying and confusing. On the other hand, these are the project requirements as laid out in the ITT, and the increased complexity in the work would mean a larger project that would bring in more money to Logic Learning if they were successful in their bid.

Imagine you are the Managing Director of Logic Learning. You are planning to tender for some work from a public sector agency - an e-learning course aimed at job-seekers. The work as specified in the ITT is, in your opinion, unnecessarily complex. On the one hand, your business needs to take on work, and if you do not bid for the work as described it may be less likely that you will win this contract. Moreover, even if you do win it, a less complex project will bring in less revenue. What should you do?

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