Managing and Evaluating Banana Diversity for Fusarium Wilt Resistance

Overview Horticulture Innovation Australia (Hort Innovation) is seeking a suitably qualified, experienced and capable delivery partner for the project Managing and evaluating banana diversity for Fusarium wilt resistance (BA26003). Delivery partners are welcome to respond to individual, or all, parts of the scope of work for the project. About Hort Innovation is a not-for-profit, grower-owned Research and Development Corporation (RDC) for Australia's $17 billion horticulture industry. Hort Innovation invests around $170 million in research and development (R&D) and marketing programs annually to provide benefit to industry and the wider community. Scope The scope includes: Evaluating TR4 and R1 resistant varieties and finalising industry fact sheets on variety characteristics to support informed decision making Providing commercialisation support for promising varieties Maintaining high value genetic materials Continuing engagement with domestic banana researchers, international banana breeding programs, and banana scientific forums to identify promising varieties Importing promising varieties, if required, through post-entry quarantine Instructions to Tenderers 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 (membership of tenders.net is required to access this information).