Tender Advertisement #1143764

Request for Proposal: Biosecurity and sustainability in the banana industry (BA19005)
Hort Innovation is a not-for-profit, grower-owned Research and Development Corporation (RDC) for Australia’s $14.4 billion horticulture industry. Hort Innovation invests around $110 million in research, development, 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: Biosecurity and sustainability in the banana industry (BA19005).
The objectives being sought from this three-year development project are to ensure continual
development of the banana industry and adoption of best-practice through:
• Investigating the means of incentivising adoption of sustainability and biosecurity best practice on-farm.
• Ensuring that Government investment is directed into programs that are practical, relevant and that will deliver long term benefits for growers, the industry, the environment and the community.
• Strategic representation of banana growers in the design and implementation of policy development surrounding biosecurity and sustainability.

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 (AEST), 10 August, 2020