Spotting bug workshop: current progress in detection and management and identifying future priorities

Overview 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). About Horticulture Innovation Australia (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. Objectives 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, with directed discussion to 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 Scope The scope includes: Delivery of a facilitated workshop covering established and emerging research findings, relevant spotting bug biology, practical industry experience and current project activity Production of a public report summarising workshop findings and providing a prioritised action plan addressing detection and monitoring, including prioritised opportunities to improve in-field detection and monitoring, recommendations on whether relevant components of existing projects should be extended or better connected, and clearly defined concepts for any proposed new detection research or investment Production of a public report addressing spotting bug management and crop-damage reduction, including prioritised opportunities to improve the management of spotting bugs and reduce associated crop damage, recommendations on whether relevant management activities, components or research themes within existing projects should be extended or supported through supplementary investment, and clearly defined concepts for any proposed new research or investment to improve the effective and sustainable management of spotting bugs Instructions to Tenderers 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 (membership of tenders.net is required to access this information).