Tender Advertisement #1279887

Request for Proposal: Feasibility/scoping study: Surveillance and diagnostic framework for detecting soil-borne pathogens in vegetable industries (MT21016)
Hort Innovation is a not-for-profit, grower-owned Research and Development Corporation (RDC) for Australia’s $15.1 billion horticulture industry. Hort Innovation invests around $120 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: Feasibility/scoping study: Surveillance and diagnostic framework for detecting soil-borne pathogens in vegetable industries (MT21016).
The objectives of the services being sought are to:
• Enhance the biosecurity preparedness of, and drive productivity in, the Australian vegetable industries by determining the best methods for sampling soil to look for endemic and exotic plant diseases
• Determine the feasibility and scope of a larger project or series of projects to develop a nationally consistent framework for soil surveillance and diagnostics
• Discover new areas for R&D investment by undertaking a foundational project and gap analysis in current knowledge of soil surveillance and diagnostics.
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 3.00pm (AEST), 20 May 2022.