Tender Advertisement #951683

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: Avocado Export Readiness and Market Access (AV17000).
The objectives of the services being sought are to help Hort Innovation to ensure the export readiness of the avocado industry for export by:
• Providing input into the maintenance of an industry Export Strategy by Hort Innovation detailing market access, improvement and development priorities.
• Provide input into Hort Innovation’s market development programmes in line with priorities identified in the Export Strategy and outcome 3 of the SIP
• Providing input into the development of training materials for a broad multi-industry export training programme aligned to the Export Strategy
• Providing input into the development of Export Quality Standards
• Facilitating the logistics and providing assistance to enable the Department’s registration and audit of export facilities
• Prepare and submit business cases to the Trade Assessment Panel for new market access and market improvement based on priorities identified in the Export Strategy
• Provide a point of expert industry advice to growers, exporters and other stakeholders, including Hort Innovation, the Department of Agriculture and Water Resources, Austrade and state agencies
• Ensure the continuity of knowledge within the industry.
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 18 August 2017, 5.00 pm (AEST).