Tender Advertisement #1030793

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: Developing a database of bio-markers for compost quality control to maximise mushroom production yield (MU17006).
The objectives of the services being sought are to help Hort Innovation:
• Conduct a global scan for novel and innovative options for mushroom compost quality control for maximised yield, with a focus on microbial biomarkers
• Better understand the optimum concentration of microbes in Australian mushroom Industry composting
• Develop an Australian mushroom industry database of microbial profiles along the composting timeline to enable a correlation between yield/productivity verses microbial load
• Equip Australian mushroom growers to utilise the Industry microbial load database to improve yield.
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), 2nd November, 2018