The Labour Market Information Council (LMIC) is an independent, non-profit organization seeking to provide Canadians with timely, reliable and relevant labour market information.
In 2020, LMIC and the Future Skills Centre (FSC) launched a partnership to develop the LMIC Data Hub, which provides easy to access to practical labour market information (LMI) across the pan-Canadian ecosystem. The Data Hub is not a website or a dashboard, but is instead a system of data pipelines design to integrate up-to-date, high-quality LMI for front-end data applications of various organizations (e.g., dashboards, career planning tools, websites, mobile apps, PDF reports, etc.).
The Data Hub draws labour market data from open public sources (e.g., ESDC’s COPS employment forecasts), public-but-difficult-to-access sources (e.g., custom tabulations from Statistics Canada), and private sector sources (e.g., online job postings). The collection and processing of these various data sources is done in an automated manner, ultimately exposing the structured information in the form of API end points.
Following the successful deployment of the Data Hub Minimum Viable Product (MVP) in late 2021, LMIC is seeking to scale-up the Data Hub. Before undertaking this work, we are seeking a thorough market analysis of similar public and private labour market data systems. The goal of this market analysis is to: (a) identify similar systems or products already available; and (b) determine solutions to avoid the duplication of existing systems.
To that end, LMIC is seeking a vendor capable of conducting a thorough and objective analysis of public and private sector data platforms, similar to the LMIC Data Hub, that are or may become available in Canada. This includes private and public sector sources that provide, or might provide, data platform offerings to Canadian client organizations and end users.
The key deliverable of this market analysis initiative will be a report containing a comprehensive list of similar and seemingly similar data systems and discussion of how these products differ from and/or overlap with the LMIC Data Hub. The report should include information about data content, methods and delivery; business models (including fee/financial dimensions); complementary offerings such as generic and custom end-applications, as well as professional services; customers/clients; geographic and industry markets; apparent business strategies; and corporate profiles. The report should also highlight any risks of duplication and suggested remedies.
