Hort Innovation is seeking a suitably qualified, experienced and capable delivery partner for the project: Spotting bug workshop: current progress in detection and management and identifying future priorities (MT26011).

The objectives of the services being sought are to provide:
 

• A facilitated workshop that brings together established and emerging research findings, relevant spotting bug biology, practical industry experience and current project activity. Through directed discussion, the workshop will identify opportunities to obtain greater value from existing investments, prioritise promising project activities or research themes for acceleration or extension, identify critical gaps and priorities for new research, and strengthen cross-project and cross-industry collaboration to improve the detection, monitoring and management of spotting bugs.
• A public report summarising workshop findings and providing a prioritised action plan that includes:
  a. detection and monitoring, including:
  i. prioritised opportunities to improve in-field detection and monitoring;
  ii. recommendations on whether relevant components of existing projects should be extended or better connected;
  iii. clearly defined concepts for any proposed new detection research or investment;
  b. spotting bug management and crop-damage reduction, including:
  i. prioritised opportunities to improve the management of spotting bugs and reduce associated crop damage;
  ii. recommendations on whether relevant management activities, components or research themes within existing projects should be extended or supported through supplementary investment; and 
  iii. clearly defined concepts for any proposed new research or investment to improve the effective and sustainable management of spotting bugs

Hort Innovation has prepared a Request for Quotation (RFQ) document that provides background information, outlines the scope of services, the procurement process and the information required from interested parties.

The RFQ 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 16th of December, 2026 at 3:00PM (AEDT).