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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: Characterisation of flavour profiles of new papaya varieties (PP17000).

The objectives of the services being sought are to:
• Determine flavour acceptance and preference for eating newly developed cultivars of yellow and red papaya identified in project PP15000 across the value chain including growers, marketers, retailers and consumers in defined marketplaces
• Identify and characterise volatile compound profiles, based on quantitative chromatography signatures, at a range of ripening stages in current and new papaya cultivars and advanced varieties identified in project PP15000
• Correlate volatile compound signatures with flavour preferences and determine the accuracy of these signatures in selecting varieties with preferred flavour profiles.

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 October 2017, 5.00 pm (AEDT).