Food Industry Capacity & Skill Initiative (FICSI) is a Not-for-Profit Organization, registered under the Societies Registration Act, 1860. The Council has been promoted by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) with financial support by National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC).
The key objective of the FICSI is to create a robust and vibrant eco-system for quality education and skill development in the Food Processing Sector in the country.
The mandate for the FICSI is:
➢ Carry out a Functional and Occupational Mapping and develop a Catalogue of Industry Occupations / Job Roles in the Food Processing Sector. ➢ Develop & Set National Occupational Standards for select Job Roles in the Sector. ➢ Develop & Put in place an Assessment & Certification mechanism for the Trainers, Assessors and Trainees. ➢ Develop and put out an Affiliation/Accreditation system for Training Institutes to deliver competency based training as per content and curriculum developed based on the NOS. ➢ Promote academies of Excellence. ➢ Put in Place an Effective Labour Market Information System.
The purpose of establishing FICSI is to ensure that the Food Processing industry is able to grow with skilled manpower, increase productivity and profitability. The FICSI will encourage the industry to employ skilled and certified manpower. In its endeavour to build capacity through Private Sector participation, FICSI is expected to create a dynamic LMIS to keep track of the labour market skill gaps, frame Occupational Standards, facilitate development of practical and high quality training content, ensure adequate availability of faculty through Train The Trainer initiatives, build accreditation and certification mechanisms and encourage capacity building through private sector participation.
Background and Rationale for RFP
As it is evident, Food Processing sector is extremely crucial for the development of the country’s economy as it is considered to be a strategic sector having a multiplier effect and bearing on the growth of primary sector as well. The sector in India presents unique opportunities and challenges with deficit of skilled manpower because of which the productivity and efficiencies in the sector are low. This has serious economic and strategic implications for the country. Out of the few key sectors identified by MSDE ,Food Processing is one of the key sectors where planned skill development with consistent standards of performance is required to increase production, improve productivity as well as quality of jobs and products.
With this context, FICSI invites leading service providers to submit proposal for validation of 27 QP from respective industries on behalf of FICSI. FICSI has developed about 49 job roles in the Sector out of which 27 QPs are nearing its revision date. FICSI would therefore like to validate these QPs to minimum 30 industry endorsements ensuring these are relevant to industry and employment market needs.
FICSI, through this Request for Proposal (RFP), requests reputed consulting firms/consortium with relevant experience and capabilities in various subsectors of Food Processing Sector to validate existing QPs nearing revision date as per NSDC guidelines to undertake the task/job of industry validation for job roles under food processing sector as per the scope given in this RFP document.
Last date for submission: 24 February 2020
For complete information, refer RFP Document (Click Here for Free Download). For questions regarding this RFP, please contact
Mr. Sunil K. Marwah – CEO,
Food Industry Capacity & Skill Initiative New Delhi 110 001
T: +91- 9711260230 Email: ceo@ficsi.in Website: www.ficsi.in
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