Request for Proposals for Empanelment of consultants for profiling the district’s Food processing Industries

Food Industry Capacity & Skill Initiative (FICSI)—widely known as Food Processing Sector Skill Council—is a Not-for-Profit Organization, under aegis of National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) and promoted by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI). Aiming at generating a critical mass of industry-employable-skilled-persons to meet the skill gap in the Food Processing industry, FICSI inter-alia is mandated to:
• Capacity development for Food Processing Industry and maintain skill inventory.
• Determining skills/competency standards and qualifications and getting them aligned with NSQF.
• Standardization and setting up of affiliation, accreditation, assessment, and certification process in accordance with NSQF as determined by NSQC. May also conduct skill-based assessment and certification for QP /NOS aligned training programs.
• Plan and facilitate the execution of Training and certification of Trainers and Assessors along with NSDC and States.
• Promotion of academies of excellence.

Background

Skill ecosystem has been evolving at a fast pace in India unfolding various opportunities and challenges to its stakeholder. Industries are the major stakeholder in this system and FICSI time to time reaches out to them to understand their Human Resource Skill requirements and further undertake the skilling programme in order to scale them according to the industry standards. To enhance this reach and understand the Human Resource skill requirements of these existing/upcoming food processing industries in each district/cluster, FICSI is looking forward to conduct a profiling survey across the 62 identified districts with prominent clusters. In this context, FICSI is looking forward to empanel one or more consultants to conduct the profiling of these clusters. Consultants with prior experience in data collection and market research shall be preferred.

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Scope of Work
The study would cover following the sub-sectors of Food Processing Sector:

1. Bread and Bakery products
2. Cold Chain (incl. logistics)
3. Dairy Products
4. Fish and seafood processing
5. Fruits & Vegetables processing
6. Meat & Poultry processing
7. Milling (Grains & Oilseeds)
8. Beverages
9. Ready-to-eat & Ready-to-cook products
10. Soya processing
11. Spices

The scope of work covers the profiling of the industries from above mentioned subsectors would cover following points:
1. Name of Unit, Address, Contact details. Subsector
2. Employee nos. in each category: Skilled, Semi-Skilled, Unskilled
3. Department wise employee strength: Procurement, Warehouse/Storage, Production, Quality Control, Research & Development etc.
4. No. of employees: Permanent, Contractual
5. Scale: (Cottage/Micro/Small/Medium/Large)
6. Year of establishment:
7. Type of Industry: In-house Manufacturer/ 3rd party Manufacturer/ Supplier/ Exporter
8. New Units that are likely to come up in next 18 months

This should be prepared District wise covering all units employing 25 or more employees (regular or contractual).

For complete details, refer RFP Document (Click Here to view)

Last Date to Submit: 4th January 2020 via Scanned Copy to be mailed at admin@ficsi.in and a Hard Copy on the following address:
FOOD INDUSTRY CAPACITY AND SKILL INITIATIVE (FICSI)
Shriram Bharatiya Kala Kendra, 3rd floor, 1, Copernicus Marg, Mandi House, New Delhi,
Delhi 110001
Landmark: Opposite Doordarshan Bhawan

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