Antiplagarism & AI Generated Content Detection

The United Nations is seeking information from potential vendors to understand the capabilities and solutions available in the market for online services or products that can effectively detect plagiarism in employment and other types of assessments. The purpose of this Request for Information (RFI) is to gather details about product offerings and capabilities in this domain. Background and Objectives: 1. The United Nations Secretariat The UN is an International Organization with 193 Member States committed to maintaining international peace and security, developing friendly relations among nations, and promoting human rights, social progress, and better living standards. The work of the UN reaches every corner of the world and covers various areas of activities such as peace and security, climate change, sustainable development, human rights, disarmament, terrorism, humanitarian and health emergencies, gender equality, governance, food production, and more. Over the past years, the mandates of the Organization have become more global and complex as it has grown to a more integrated and field-based Organization. 2. The UN Secretariat is one of the six principal organs of the UN. The United Nations Secretariat carries out the day-to-day work of the UN as mandated by the General Assembly and the Organization's other main organs. The Secretary-General is the head of the Secretariat, which has tens of thousands of UN staff members working at duty stations worldwide. The UN staff members are recruited internationally and locally and work in duty stations and on peacekeeping missions. Serving the cause of peace in a violent world is a dangerous occupation. Since the founding of the UN, hundreds of brave men and women have given their lives in its service. 3. The Secretariat is organized along departmental lines, with each department or office having a distinct area of action and responsibility. Offices and departments coordinate with each other to ensure cohesion in the UN’s programme of work. Much of the UN Secretariat is located in New York City, USA. The UN also has three major Offices outside of its Headquarters and five Regional Economic Commissions. 4. Assessment for employment of staff at the United Nations Secretariat In recruitment of its staff, the UN Secretariat has been guided by Article 101.3 of its Charter, which states, “The paramount consideration in the employment of the staff and the determination of the conditions of service shall be the necessity of securing the highest standards of efficiency, competence, and integrity. Due regard shall be paid to the importance of recruiting the staff on as wide a geographical basis as possible.” In accordance with this mandate, the United Nations has been conducting competitive examinations and other types of assessments to identify the most qualified candidates for employment. 5. Since 2017, the UN Secretariat has been moving from paper-based exams to computer-based online exams to modernize and streamline the delivery and administration of its mandated examinations and tests. The UN Online Examinations and Test System (UNOETS) was developed as part of this effort, using the open-source Moodle learning management system. UNOETS is currently the UN Secretariat’s enterprise technology platform used by several UN entities for their assessment needs and has been integrated with the UN’s talent management system Inspira, allowing candidates shortlisted in Inspira to be automatically invited to the assessment in the testing platform and enabling test results to be automatically sent back to Inspira. UNOETS allows test takers to complete tests online from any web-accessible location. While the platform was initially used for UN’s mandated centrally administered examinations such as the Young Professionals Programme (YPP), competitive examinations for language positions (CELP), and Language Proficiency Examination (LPE), it is also used to deliver assessments for position-specific job openings as well as with generic job openings. The system logs all test responses and user activity for review. The users of the system are broadly categorized into four groups: (1) Test Takers, (2) Test Administrators, (3) Test Graders, and (4) System Administrators.