Tender Advertisement #961681

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: Summerfruit supply chain quality support (SF17004).
The objectives of the services being sought are to:
• Identify activities occurring between receipt of fruit into the retailer DC and the point of sale that are adversely impacting quality, and ultimately consumer satisfaction.
• Determine procedures and quality specifications that best deliver a consistently acceptable product to consumers
• Quantify the commercial impact to retailers and growers of supplying an optimum eating quality product.
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 Friday, September 29, 2017, 5.00 pm (AEDT).