Olive oil quality monitoring program

⁠⁠⁠Hort Innovation is the not-for-profit, grower-owned research and development corporation for Australia’s $16 billion horticulture industry. We invest more than $120M per year in research and development, marketing and trade activities to build a prosperous and sustainable future for growers.

Hort Innovation is seeking a suitably qualified, experienced and capable delivery partner for the project: Olive oil quality monitoring program (OL23002).

The objective of the services being sought is to monitor adherence of the current Australian marketplace with the Australian Standard for olive oils AS5264-2011 by undertaking a 3-year sampling and analysis program. The results of this monitoring will be confidentially reported back to individual producers/distributors/private label and more holistically to retailers/industry.

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.