Papaya market supply data capture and analysis

⁠⁠⁠Hort Innovation is a not-for-profit, grower-owned Research and Development Corporation (RDC) for Australia’s $15.1 billion horticulture industry. Hort Innovation invests around $120 million in research and development (R&D) and marketing programs annually to provide benefit to industry and the wider community.

Hort Innovation is seeking a suitably qualified, experienced and capable delivery partner for the project: Papaya market supply data capture and analysis (PP20003).

The objectives of the services being sought are to:
• Collate production volume data from papaya transporters
• Enable oversight of weekly and seasonal product dispatch to support a more informed basis for grower decisions and responses to changing market conditions.

Although papaya is grown and supplied to markets year-round, growers/industry do not have visibility over the total market volumes that are being dispatched to market on a periodical basis throughout the year. Grower knowledge of dispatch volumes throughout the season may support consistent product flow; assist industry quantify the impact of a market shock/correction (for example, an extreme weather or product flush); and enable a more informed basis to market product. This may contribute to increased consistency and quality of papaya in the market. Data would also support industry understanding of impact of volume on a sustainable market supply. To date, industry have expressed difficulty in understanding market fluctuations throughout the season; access to dispatch data could support this understanding.

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