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Delivery partners Partnership opportunities Enhancing avocado quality by reducing lenticel damage

Enhancing avocado quality by reducing lenticel damage

Closing date: October 29, 2024

Request for Proposal

Hort Innovation is seeking a suitably qualified, experienced and capable delivery partner for the project: Enhancing avocado quality by reducing lenticel damage (AV24005).

The objectives of the services being sought are to:

  • Enhance avocado industry practices by improving knowledge and minimising lenticel damage during harvesting.
  • Update, if appropriate, tools and techniques to minimise lenticel damage based on new knowledge.
  • Enhance industry practices for better fruit quality and market competitiveness.
  • Collaborate with growers and avocado extension programs to implement findings in real-world scenarios and across regions.
  • Understand whether there is a correlation between lenticel damage and rots.

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 October 29, 2024 3:00PM (AEDT).