Tender Advertisement #1002314

Hort Innovation is a not-for-profit, grower-owned Research and Development Corporation (RDC) for Australia’s $9 billion horticulture industry. Hort Innovation invests around $100 million in research and development (R&D) and marketing programs annually to provide benefit to industry and the wider community.

Hort Innovation is seeking a suitably qualified, experienced and capable delivery partner for the project: Processing tomato industry capacity building (TM17000).

The objectives of the services being sought are to:
• Coordinate information delivery to the Australian processing tomato industry
• Increase industry understanding of the latest relevant R&D outcomes and the adoption of R&D by Australian processing tomato businesses
• Increase the reach of the processing tomato industry R&D program by engaging stakeholders in the R&D process, including on-farm trials
• Collect industry benchmark data and statistics to help identify gaps and direct industry development efforts
• Provide accurate representation of the Australian processing tomato industry with stakeholder groups such as Plant Health Australia
• Identify other funding sources to support R&D and extension aimed at industry development.

Hort Innovation has prepared a Request for Proposal (RFP) document that provides background information, outlines the scope of services, the procurement process and the information required from interested parties. The RFP may be downloaded from www.tenders.net (you will need to be a member of tenders.net to access this information).

The closing date for responses is 5.00pm (AEDT), 15 May 2018