Tender Advertisement #1318396

Request for Proposal: Opportunities for insecticide resistant honey bees for pollination security (PH22000)
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: Opportunities for insecticide resistant honey bees for pollination security (PH22000).
The objectives of the services being sought are to:
• Compliment and prioritise existing global research into insecticide resistance in honey bees into an Australian context, with additional scope for the Australian stingless bee sector.
• Conduct background work to determine the factors that may impact the success of a large-scale research program undertaking further work in this area.
• Increase understanding of the opportunities to progress research into insecticide resistant honey bees in Australia for the first time.
• Develop engagement plan for a larger scale research program.
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 9 November 2022, 3.00 pm (AEDT).