Technical Assistance for Vietnam Food JSC.
Trainer on USDA & FDA requirements
Background
Improving Private Sector Competitiveness (IPSC) is a U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) technical assistance project, and the Agency for Enterprise Development (AED) under the Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI) is the project owner. The project is implemented by Deloitte Consulting LLP (“Deloitte”) and runs from 2020 to 2025.
The purpose of the USAID IPSC Activity is to remove constraints and build the competitiveness of small and growing businesses (SGBs) in Vietnam, including those led by vulnerable populations. With this activity, USAID/Vietnam is supporting Vietnam’s competitiveness: vertically at the policy, market and firm level; and horizontally by working along the entire spectrum of enterprise growth models, from household businesses transforming into registered firms to small firms on the cusp of scaling up.
IPSC is made up of four interrelated Objectives:
Summary of Activities
The adoption of Environment, Social, Governance (ESG) practices is rapidly increasing worldwide, fueled both by customer demand, investors’ expectation, and sustainability regulations. The Government of Vietnam has approved the National Green Growth Strategy and Action Plan, followed by the National Program on Support for Private Enterprises in Sustainable Business (Decision 167/QD-TTg 2022). Accelerating corporate sustainability and ESG practices can help companies in Vietnam improve competitiveness, build long-term growth, rise to international operating standards, and facilitate joining and moving up in global value chains.
Within this context, IPSC aims to support the private sector to become more competitive and ready to enter the global market through integrating sustainable business practices and adopting ESG. In 2023, IPSC launched the Vietnam ESG Initiative, a prize competition to support SGBs with circular economy and/or inclusive business approach to receive in-depth technical support for piloting, implementing, or scaling up their sustainable business practices and ESG adoption. The Top 10 finalist SGBs were selected based on their potential to drive impactful ESG practices that can be used as examples for other SGBs to replicate and scale up.
Vietnam Food Joint Stock Company (“VNF”) was founded in Viet Nam in 2013 and is a pioneer enterprise in Vietnam in manufacturing value-added products (e.g. peptide, chitosan, astaxanthin, ...) from shrimp by-products. VNF has applied a biotechnological approach with a zero-waste production mindset to upcycle agricultural by-products into value-added products and applications to meet crucial social & environmental needs.
The goals VNF want to achieve include:
VNF plans to increase the dissemination of sustainable biological materials and solutions in the agricultural industry not only in Vietnam but also overseas, especially in great markets such as the United States. As part of the technical assistance delivery awarded for VNF, IPSC is seeking 01 individual consultant to provide training for VNF’s staff with regards to USDA and FDA requirements.
The consultant is required to support VNF and IPSC to perform the below tasks and responsibilities.
- Work closely with IPSC to develop a training agenda and training materials for VNF staff with regards to USDA and FDA requirements.
- Deliver the training class according to plan.
- Prepare a joint Training report of the training class based on IPSC template, including the following sections in English: 1) Executive summary; 2) Context; 3) Objectives; 4) Activities/Services delivered; 5) Results achieved; 6) Keys challenges/Lesson learnt; 7) Recommendations 8) Appendix, which includes a list of participants and links to relevant documents.
Deliverables and timeline
The consultant must complete and submit the following deliverables for IPSC review and acceptance:
# | Deliverable | Tentative Due Date | Estimated LOE |
1 | Training agenda | 1 Oct, 2024 | 02 days |
2 | Training materials and delivery | 25 Oct, 2024 | 05 days |
3 | A final Training report (in English) | 15 Nov, 2024 | 01 day |
| Total: | 08 days |
Qualifications
Place, Period of Performance and Level of Effort
Estimated level of effort: 08 days during the period of October – November 2024
Location: Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. In the event that travel is required, all related travel expenses will be arranged and self-covered by the consultant.
Mode of application submission
The Offeror is expected to submit a professional CV with financial proposals. The financial proposal must be submitted in USD with PIT inclusive in a separate email to the technical proposal and no PRICE information is mentioned in the technical proposal.
Proposals are requested to be submitted to email: [email protected] before the deadline of Sep 20, 2024, with a specific title:
Name of applicant - Application to TA for Vietnam Food JSC- Trainer on USDA & FDA requirements
USAID Improving Private Sector Competitiveness Key Concepts and Definitions