Hort Innovation is seeking a suitably qualified, experienced and capable delivery partner for the project: Macadamia Regional Variety Trials - 2027-2032 (MC26001).

The business objectives of the services being sought are to:

1) Provide trials and assessments across regions of macadamia selections from the breeding program that:

• Use industry standard planting material in trials
• Produce quality comparative performance data and analyses against existing varieties
• Provide information suitable for identifying selections for the potential commercial release of new varieties and for PBR purposes.
• Produce information to assist growers in decision making when selecting new varieties.  

2)    Provide trials and phenotyping methods appropriate to a structured rolling front selection assessment model based on multi-tree plots that provide high quality data at some sites (core-activity trials) and at other sites provide growers with opportunities to trial selections through non-core trials.

3)    Facilitate trials that provide both early adoption of promising selections opportunities and adequate budwood to support the potential commercial release of new varieties, through grower based non-core trials using strip or other large plot single-selection planting methods. Engage with growers in these trials who will provide some data.

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 the 8th of December, 2026 3:00 PM (AEDT).