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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: An integrated pest management programme for the Australian almond industry (AL16009) to develop knowledge and practices that support best practice in integrated pest management (IPM) on-farm and postharvest.

The overarching objective of the programme is to develop and extend knowledge and practices that support best practice IPM for the almond industry. Specifically, the services are to:

• Extend current knowledge on IPM of arthropod pests in almond orchards and along the supply chain, with an emphasis on Carob Moth, Carpophilus (in collaboration current project AL15004) and storage pests
• Identify and undertake strategic, adaptive and participatory research to support the further development of an IPM programme for almonds, with a focus on Carob Moth, Carpophilus (in collaboration with project AL15004) and storage pests
• Work with the concurrent project being procured on integrated disease management (IDM) (AL16005)
• Collaborate with the almond industry’s communication (AL16000) and innovation and adoption (AL16001) projects to extend information on IPM that will maximise adoption throughout the supply chain.

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).