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The British Council is currently seeking a suitable provider to deliver a flexible and robust e-assessment platform from which we can run our British Council owned Aptis test. The Aptis test is managed by the Global Assessments Team which sits within the English and Exams strategic business unit (SBU), one of the three business streams within Exams, alongside IELTS (jointly owned with Cambridge English and IDP Australia) and Distribution services (facilitating exams delivery on behalf of 100 plus UK awarding bodies and universities). Global Assessments develops and delivers British Council originated assessment products and services with the strategic objectives of: 1) Diversifying the BC exams portfolio; and 2) Building wholly owned branded tests which are delivered direct to market across a range of government, educational and corporate sectors. The Aptis test is managed by the global assessments Team which sits within the English and exams strategic business unit (SBU), one of the three business streams within Exams, alongside IELTS (jointly owned with Cambridge English and IDP Australia) and Distribution services (facilitating exams delivery on behalf of 100 plus UK awarding bodies and universities). Global assessments develops and delivers British Council originated assessment products and services with the strategic objectives of: 1) Diversifying the BC exams portfolio; and 2) Building wholly owned branded tests which are delivered direct to market across a range of government, educational and corporate sectors. Global assessments is backed by assessment research and its own advisory board and has gained a global reputation for the integrity and reliability of its English language tests. Aptis is British Council’s flagship English language testing product, going live in August 2012 and now delivered across major markets (Saudi Arabia, China, India, Americas and Europe) and increasingly extending out into new country markets. Aptis is now an established accepted global test of English language proficiency increasingly accepted by schools, colleges, universities and other intuitions as a high quality, cost-effective means of testing large-scale populations including school, college and university entrants, students and teachers and used for a variety of entry, proficiency, exit and accreditation purposes.