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National Risk Management Initiative – Project Lead and Team
The National Risk Management Initiative (NRMI) is a GRDC project extending over five years that aims to understand and improve risk-reward outcomes for Australian grain growers through participatory action research (PAR).
Explicitly the NRMI aims to:
1. develop an improved understanding of the risk-reward relationships for important on-farm management practices and decisions,
2. inform growers and their advisers of new insights into managing risks and maximising rewards, and
3. challenge grower decision-making so future management decisions are thought of in terms of probability of upside returns offset against the associated downside risks.
In PAR, growers and their advisors will quantify the probabilities of uncertainty of outcomes and assess the risk-reward payoffs for given management decisions in the context of their own farming operations. At the conclusion of NRMI, a suite of extension packages and artefacts (decision support tools) will continue to inform and chnallenge grain growers, their consultants and advisers to consider farm management decisions as informed by probable rewards (profit $/ha) and associated probable risks (loss $/ha).
GRDC is seeking to engage a NRMI Project Lead (PL) and team to undertake national project leadership, to coordinate reporting to GRDC and to support up to twelve (12) Action Research Groups (ARGs) nationally. In addition, the PL is expected to:
(i) form an analytics team for biological, economic and risk-reward analysis,
(ii) form a behavioural science team to advise learning and practise change behaviours as well as investment impact, and
(iii) implement a national Theme on ‘Nitrogen Management Strategies’ that compares rewards and risks for approaches to managing Nitrogen supply for cereal, canola or other crops.
Submit your Tender through the Grains Investment Portal (https://access.grdc.com.au) by 5pm Canberra local time on 22 September 2022.
For information on "Applying" and how to register refer to these guides in the GRDC help centre (https://help.grdc.com.au):
· Guide: Registering for the portal
· Guide: Submitting a Tender through the Grains Investment Portal
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 except where the Tender is submitted by a consortium and the Tender specifies that each member of the proposed consortium will be party to the contract.
2 The Tenderer and any proposed subcontractor must be compliant with the Workplace Gender Equality Act 2012.
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.
November 2022 to December 2027
Tenderers must submit their responses electronically through the Grains Investment Portal at: https://access.grdc.com.au
For information on 'Applying' and how to register refer to the ATM details on the GRDC's Website