Tender Advertisement #969471

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: Remote plant performance in urban green space environments (GC16008).

The research project will build on the pool of national and international research by investigating the feasibility of potential new technologies which could be developed to measure and monitor plant performance with a view to reducing the associated costs of plant maintenance.

The key objectives of this program are to:
• Drive the development of new technologies which will lead to a step change in remotely managing plant performance and maintenance requirements
• Promote new industry opportunities for the nursery and garden and turf sectors
• Increase urban greening through the eventual commercialisation and adoption of new technologies that make it easier and more cost efficient to remotely measure plant performance.

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 5.00pm (AEDT), Friday, January 15, 2018.