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Closed ATM View - PROC-9176723

Achieving improved genetic gain for yield in chickpea, faba bean and lentil using genetic diversity

Layne Schutt - Contract Administrator

Phone: 08 8198 8400

Email Address: tenders@grdc.com.au

Document(s) Contact Name:
Layne Schutt - Contract Administrator

Document(s) Contact Phone:
08 8198 8400

Document(s) Contact Email:
tenders@grdc.com.au

ATM ID:

PROC-9176723

Agency:

Grains Research and Development Corporation

Category:

70140000 - Crop production and management and protection

Close Date & Time:

29-Nov-2022 5:00 pm (ACT Local Time)
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Publish Date:

25-Oct-2022

Location:

ACT, NSW, VIC, SA, WA, QLD, NT, TAS
Canberra, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth, Brisbane, Darwin, Hobart

ATM Type:

Request for Tender

Multi Agency Access:

Panel Arrangement:

Multi-stage:

Description:

Maximising realised yield genetic gain in some pulse crops (chickpea, faba bean and lentil) is one of the ongoing and major challenges faced by breeders in variety improvement. This challenge is compounded by abiotic and biotic stresses exacerbated by climate changes. However, the availability of genetic diversity, advances in genomics, rapid generation turn over and data analytics including different Artificial intelligence (AI) approaches presents the opportunity to harness these to identify most favourable parental combinations of yield enhancing traits and facilitate their deployment and validation to achieve a yield genetic gain of 1.5% in diverse Australian target production environments, the focus of this investment.

Other Instructions:

Full details for this Open Tender can be found on the GRDC website located here: https://grdc.com.au/research/partnering-in-rde-investment/tenders/open-tenders

Conditions for Participation:

The following are mandatory conditions with which a Tenderer must comply to participate in this procurement process:

1 The Tenderer must be a single legal entity or recognised firm of partners

2 The Tenderer and any proposed subcontractor must be compliant with the Workplace Gender Equality Act 2012, the Modern Slavery Act 2018 and any other applicable labour laws and standards in the jurisdiction in which they operate.

3 The Tenderer and any subcontractor must not have a judicial decision against it (not including decisions under appeal) relating to employee entitlements and who have not paid the claim.

4 The Tenderer and any subcontractor must not be named on the Consolidated List, being the list of persons and entities who are subject to targeted financial sanctions or travel bans under Australian sanction laws, as maintained by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

5 In accordance with the Black Economy Procurement Connected Policy, a Tenderer must include a satisfactory and valid Statement of Tax Records (STR). If the total value of all work under any proposed subcontract is expected to be equal to or above $4 million (inclusive of GST), also include a separate satisfactory and valid STR of that proposed subcontractor.

Timeframe for Delivery:

Five years

Address for Lodgement:

All Tender responses should be submitted directly with GRDC electronically through the Grains Investment Portal located at: https://access.grdc.com.au