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Pacific Horticultural and Agricultural Market Access (PHAMA) Plus
The Commonwealth of Australia, represented by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (‘Department’), invites Tenders for managing the implementation of Pacific Horticultural and Agricultural Market Access (PHAMA) Plus program, in accordance with this Request for Tender (RFT).
PHAMA Plus aims to contribute to improved economic growth and improved rural livelihoods in 200,000 Pacific households of the six PHAMA economies (PNG, Solomon Islands, Fiji, Samoa, Tonga and Vanuatu) as well as small island state signatories of PACER Plus. PHAMA currently supports short-term activities relating to 12 export pathways. PHAMA Plus will build on the successes of PHAMA to support selected Pacific island countries to increase the quantity and quality of their agricultural, horticultural and cultural exports in ways that benefit producers, exporters and importers.
PHAMA Plus will be commercially focused, export oriented and inclusive. It will have three end-of-program outcomes:
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Producers and exporters use maintained and new export market access for Pacific export products;
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Women and men exporters, processors and producers adopt quality and productivity enhancing innovations for their export products; and
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Women and men staff of Pacific biosecurity authorities perform their market access facilitation functions better.
PHAMA Plus will facilitate changes on the supply side, demand side and business-enabling environment through:
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Export market interventions;
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Enabling the export business environment;
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Supply-side partner co-investments;
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Supply-side intermediate service provider business changes;
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Demand-side changes in producer and processor practices; and
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Changes to the broader business-enabling environment.
(a) The Tenderer must not be named as not complying with the Workplace Gender Equality Act 2012 (Cth);
(b) The Tenderer must not be listed on the World Bank List or any similar List maintained by a development donor or is the subject of an informal investigation or temporary suspension which could lead the Tenderer becoming so listed;
(c) The Tenderer must not be subject to an adverse Court or Tribunal decision (not including decisions under appeal) for a breach of any workplace relations law, work health and safety law, or workers’ compensation law, or if the Tenderer is subject, that the Tenderer has fully complied, or is fully complying with the Court or Tribunal order; and
(d) The Tenderer agrees to contract as a single legal entity.
Initial Term: 3 years and 8.5 months
Option Period: upto 4 years