Quotations are hereby invited for the appointment of a service provider to provide a bakery operator for a period of six (06) months for Ithala Development Finance Corporations. Scope of work: • Adherence to bakery and laboratory procedure manual: The operator will be required to adhere to bakery manufacturing and laboratory procedure manuals in respect of Quality Management, Environmental Health and Safety, Hazardous Material Handling and Storage, Manufacturing, Formulation conversions and Booking management; • Capacitating the bakery incubator with resources and raw material: The service provider is required to capacitate the facility with the resources and raw material. This will be done to assist SMMEs who want to buy small portions as most suppliers only sell in big volumes. This will also include the management of raw materials in the facility; • Recruitment and on boarding of SMME to incubation process: The newly renovated facility will be used by SMMEs. The service provider will need to recruit and on board SMMEs into the incubation programme in coordination with the client and continue with the incubation programme for SMMES already recruited into the programme. - Training of SMMEs: Recruited SMMEs will have to be trained in the following: • Bakery Manufacturing – this is technical training on how to mix raw materials to come up with a finished product. The trainings to be conducted by qualified personnel; • Financial Management – to ensure that they are able to manage their finances of the business; • Pricing – important to know how to price products correct so that the SMME does not make losses; • Packaging and labelling – to ensure that they use the correct packaging for their product as well as using correct labels. This is critical when their products are tested by SABS. The label is one of the determining factors whether the product passes or fails; • Marketing and Sales – It is important for SMMEs to know which platforms to use to market their products effectively. They are also trained on how to sell their products; • Quality Assurance – to teach the SMMEs on the importance of following processes and procedures to ensure that the quality of their products is consistent; - Close Out (end of term report): • At the end of each term, the operator will submit a close out report that details the progress of the project from inception. This report will include the progress on KPIs, activities undertaken as well as interventions given to SMMEs in the programme. Project timeline: The relationship will be managed through a service level agreement based on a monthly fee for a period not exceeding twelve (06) months. (Тендер №98431870ru)