New Delhi : 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 productivities 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 development of Qualification Pack and National Occupational Standards (NOS) for selected job roles/occupations in the Food Processing Industry.
The deliverable of this project would be utilized by FICSI in building strategies to boost the skill levels and professionalism in the Food Processing industry by working closely with the private sector, universities and other institutions of learning so as to design programs to ensure that adequate trained and skilled manpower is available to the industry which can give consistent standards of performance.
FICSI, through this Request for Proposal (RFP), would select an Implementation Partner (referred as Bidder/Proposer in the rest of the document) with relevant experience and capacity to work on the scope of RFP and maintain information thereof.
Request for Proposal
FICSI requests for proposal from reputed consultants in food processing/consulting firms/consortium to undertake the task/job of developing Occupational and Functional Mapping and development of Qualification Pack and National Occupational Standards (NOS) for selected job roles/occupations in the Food Processing Industry as per NSDC guidelines on the development of Qualification Packs and National Occupational Standards on their website www.nsdcindia.org
FICSI through this Request for Proposal (RFP) seeks to select a competent consultant/consulting firm with relevant experience and capabilities in various subsectors of Food Processing Sector to develop Qualification Pack and National Occupational Standards (NOS) for selected job roles/occupations
SCOPE OF WORK
The scope of this project shall include but not necessarily be limited to the following tasks:
A. Identify the skill gap apart from the 49 QP prepared in the food processing sector
B. Occupational Mapping of QP identified
C. Functional Analysis
D. Development of Qualification Packs and National Occupational Standards
E. Industry validation and updation of NOS and assistance in Qualification Registration Committee (QRC) procedure
Scope
The details of the task are mentioned below,
A. Identify the skill gap in food processing apart from the 49 QP prepared
• Jobs available & roles in key sub-sectors and emerging trend including anticipated changes in employment patterns. This should also include growth charts in each sub-sector.
• Identify the existing supply sources (formal & non-formal education, training institutes, public and private) – How is the existing demand being met?
• Learning opportunities and kind of training to enhance qualifications of the workers. Training institutes involved in these trainings.
B. Occupational Mapping
• Identify remaining Occupations & Job Roles across Food Processing Sectors and sub sectors.
• Profiling of Job Roles, including expected out come and competencies required to achieve the expected outcome.
• Career paths/Opportunity for progression, commencing from entry level to the senior positions.
• Identification and Elucidation of skill deficiencies/gaps- soft, generic and domain specific.
• Identify Job roles which could be off loaded to undergraduates.
Who can Apply?
a. Members/Consultants in food processing executing the project having minimum 3 years of relevant experience
b. Members/consultants having got experience of activities in building of QP-NOS and related activities and handled similar projects with NSDC.
Note- The consultant/consulting firm can select all or some of QP depending on their specialisation or interest
Bidder’s inquiries and FICSI responses
I. All enquiries / clarifications from the bidders related to this RFP must be directed in writing exclusively to the contact person notified in this RFP document.
II. The preferred mode of delivering written questions to the aforementioned contact person would be through registered post or email. Telephone calls will not be accepted. In no event will the FICSI be responsible for ensuring that bidders’ inquiries have been received by FICSI.
III. After distribution of the RFP, the contact person notified by FICSI will begin accepting written questions from the bidders. FICSI will endeavor to provide a full, complete, accurate, and timely response to the questions. The responses to the queries from all bidders will be distributed to the interested bidders.
Submission of Responses to FICSI
I. The bidders should submit responses as per details given in RFP in 2 printed copies of each duly initialed on each page and on a non-rewritable CD as a single file in PDF format in a separate sealed envelope.
II. The bids should be in two parts:
i. Technical Proposal
ii. Financial Bid
III. The CD/ DVD must be duly signed using a permanent Pen/Marker and should bear the name of the bidder organization and the reference id of the RFP.
IV. The original proposal shall be prepared/ printed in indelible ink. It shall contain no inter-lineation or overwriting, except as necessary to correct errors made by the bidder itself.
V. Any such corrections must be initialed by the person (or persons) who sign(s) the proposals.
VI. All pages of the proposal must be sequentially numbered and shall be initialed by the Authorized Representative of the bidder.
VII. The technical part of the proposal should not contain any pricing information whatsoever on the services offered. Pricing information shall be separated and only contained in the Financial Bid.
VIII. All references to descriptive material and brochures should be included in the appropriate response paragraph, though material/documents themselves may be provided as annexure to the Proposal.
IX. Information which the Bidder considers proprietary, if any, should be clearly marked “proprietary” next to the relevant part of the text and it will then be treated as such accordingly.
Signing and Proposal Submission Format
I. The entire proposal shall be strictly as per the format specified as per Para 6.2 of this RFP and any deviation from the formats shall be rejected.
II. All the communication to FICSI including the proposal and the bid documents shall be initialed on each page by the authorized representative of the bidder and authority letter/power of attorney should be attached with the bid.
Venue and Deadline for submission
Proposals must be received at the address specified below by 1730 hours on 7th June, 2019 by the authorized representative mentioned in the document.
Contact details for Submission of bids:
Mr. Sunil K. Marwah
CEO
601, 6TH Floor, Mercantile House
Kasturba Gandhi Marg, Connaught Place
New Delhi – 110001
T: +91- 9711260230
For complete information, application formats and other terms, refer RFP Document (Click Here for Free Download)
