Seongnam City Announces 'Public Recruitment' for 7 School Meal Ingredient Suppliers

Seongnam City Hall

[Asia Economy (Seongnam) = Reporter Lee Young-gyu] Seongnam City in Gyeonggi Province is publicly recruiting seven school meal supply companies.

Seongnam City announced on the 4th that it plans to hold a public recruitment for seven companies over two days on the 12th and 13th, including four kimchi suppliers and three rice cake suppliers.

All kimchi and rice cake suppliers must possess official certifications such as HACCP, G-Mark certification, and eco-friendly certification to be eligible to apply.

Additionally, they must not use GMO (genetically modified organism) ingredients and must be companies located within the metropolitan area that have registered under the Food Sanitation Act as 'collective meal food sales business' and 'food manufacturing and processing business.'

Interested companies should submit an application form, a school meal supply performance summary, and a unit price proposal by item to the Seongnam School Meal Support Center (11, Seongnam-daero 43beon-gil, Bundang-gu), which is operated by Seongnam City, within the designated period.

The selected companies will supply meal ingredients to elementary, middle, high, and special schools in the district for two years from March 2, 2023, to February 28, 2024.

Currently, among 158 schools in the Seongnam area (73 elementary, 47 middle, 36 high, and 2 special schools), 141 schools use the Seongnam School Meal Support Center.

A city official stated, "In the school meal ingredient sector, including kimchi and rice cakes, 23 companies supply seven categories such as rice, seafood, livestock products, agricultural products, and processed foods," adding, "We aim to select excellent companies capable of stably supplying ingredients to each school to improve the quality of school meals."

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