Summary
Date Posted: Friday, August 04 2023, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Purpose of the Consultancy
Tooro Dairy has expressed interest to improve its footprint in dairy products value addition space both locally and regionally. To enable develop a clear road map towards this ambition, SNV ISDAP proposes to conduct a business diagnosis of the TDCL business operations. The business diagnosis exercise shall work backwards to identify reasons for unsatisfactory performance by making the appropriate links between causes and effects to determine the critical intervention areas/points to achieve this ambition.

Tasks and Deliverables
The following tasks are to be executed as part of the overall assignment:
• Make a thorough inventory of the existing organisation (including policies, procedures, and
• organizational structure) and business assets. This should include a review of the following among
• others; ownership structure especially the directors’ backgrounds and their entrepreneurship
• strengths, Tooro dairy business background, the company’s objectives and main services offered,
• current business turnover and average past revenue growth over the past 5-10 years. The
• consultant should analyze and determine the current return on net assets. The findings should be
• able to inform how effectively Tooro Dairies Ltd is putting its assets to work.
• Examine current market opportunities that the organization can take advantage of with its current assets, operational structures, and technical and financial resources to add more value to members and increase its market share. The market share should review the optimal conditions(technical, operational and financial) necessary to have an improved balance between input and outputs.
• Note: The consultant must define the maximum and most effective utilisation mechanism of Tooro Dairy's existing resources and the various support structures required to achieve its full potential.
• This should be based on the forecasted business potential if the current organisational and business assets are used to their fullest extent.
• Examine TD's current active partners to determine how each can strengthen Tooro Dairy while effectively utilizing the available organizational and commercial resources pool. The consultant should specify the required level of technical and financial assistance that is needed.
• Examine a wider range of opportunities that Tooro Dairy can take advantage of with its current or new potential partners (technical and financial) to be able to increase its profitability and contribute more to members and the dairy sub-sector in Uganda.
• Compare the results of options 3.1(a) and 3.1(b) in a scenario analysis, and then give Tooro Dairy specific advice on the best course of action for achieving its short-, medium-, and long-term business development goals. Comparisons ought to be made using anticipated cash flows, earnings, and profitability

This will result in the following deliverables:
• Report: A final approved report by SNV and Tooro Dairy, detailing the findings and providing clear justification for every recommendation reached.
• Presentation: a presentation, capturing the key issues from the report, for Tooro Dairy partners (existing and potential) and the broad dairy sector audience. After the presentation, feedback from the joint review shall inform the next course of action.

Scope of the assignment
The geographical scope of the assignment will cover the entire dairy sub-sector in Uganda.

Timeline and Contracting
The consultancy position is in principle for 60 days distributed across July – September 2023.
It is proposed that the data collection and documentation will take the following timelines:
• Submission proposals: 11th August 2023.
• Submission of a draft report: First week of September 2023.
• Submission final report: Third week of September 2023.

Submission and Payments
The consultants are requested to submit their proposal for the implementation of this assignment, based on the following considerations:
• The fee will be all-inclusive, including all applicable taxes, allowances, and accommodation in Fort Portal (if required). For administrative records, the consultant will submit a plan of activities to the Project Administrator.
• Payment will be in two instalments, i.e., 50% upon signing of the contract and 50% upon approval of the final report.
• The submission should explain how the consultants will go about the assignment, the applicable fees, a detailed cv of the consultant(s) and a brief explanation as to why the consultant(s) is well-placed to carry out the assignment.
• All payments shall be based on an approved report and invoice.

Position
The consultant will work directly with the ISDAP project coordinator and report to the project management committee.

Requisite administrative (documents) Requirements
• Recent tax clearance/Tax compliance certificate issued not earlier than June 2023.
• Certificate of registration including Tin number and certificate of incorporation.
• Valid trading license/ operating permit
• Articles and memorandum of association clearly showing directors.
• Company profile including physical address of the offices

Scoring criteria
The evaluation of proposals received will be on a point based system and will be done progressively
as follows
• Administrative evaluation. This will be based on pass/ fail basis. Only those that pass
• administrative criteria will Progress to technical evaluation.
• Technical evaluation. This will be scored out of 80. Only those that score an average above 40
• will progress to financial evaluation.
• Financial evaluation
• This will be scored out of 20


Education Requirement: No Requirements

Job Experience: No Requirements

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months:

Level of Education:

Job application procedure

Applications should be sent no later than 11th August 2023 at 5 pm East African time.
The technical and financial proposal should be sent separately through email;
ugandatenders@snv.org  Please include consultancy for Tooro dairy business diagnosis in the subject.


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