Tender Advertisement #1044843

Horticulture Innovation Australia (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: Alive and thriving - Phase 1 - Indoor plant survival matrix (NY18009)
The objectives of the services are to help Hort Innovation:
• Phase 1: Conduct a desktop study to investigate novel and innovative approaches to guiding indoor plant survival globally and present these in a concise report together with a prioritised matrix to guide survival for assimilation into consumer-facing app
• Phase 2: Engage consumers in a simple to follow regime of plant care, focused on indoor plants (based on metro audience and known industry/consumer trends)
• Phase 2: Develop content for a new consumer-facing app that allows users to input their data and be provided with a scientifically-based watering schedule for each of their indoor plants.
Note: Only Phase 1 is to be delivered by this project. Phase 2 will be procured separately.
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 5.00 pm (AEDT), 15 January 2019.