Horticulture Innovation Australia (Hort Innovation) is a not-for-profit, grower-owned Research and Development Corporation (RDC) for Australia’s close to $16 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: Rubus industry - Barriers to best practice across diverse communities.

The objectives of the services being sought are:

• To identify the scope to be included in the research, such as best practices being sought to adopt, diverse communities, across the Raspberry and Blackberry (Rubus) industries

• To identify barriers to adopting best practices in the Raspberry and Blackberry industry in the agricultural innovation system

• To make and priorities recommendations for 'next steps'

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.