Sponsorship - Events (round two 2025)

Reference number: PROC-9177226

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Release date:: Friday 14 March 2025
Closing time:: Tuesday 27 May 2025, at 05:00 PM ACT local time
Enquiry deadline:: Tuesday 20 May 2025, at 05:00 PM ACT local time

Summary

We are passionate about the Australian grains industry and value opportunities to engage with growers, researchers and other stakeholders, promote innovative and impactful RD&E, and develop industry capacity.

If you share our commitment to the Australian grains industry and want to apply for GRDC sponsorship, in your application please demonstrate how GRDC sponsorship will:

deliver value for GRDC and the broader Australian grains industry and community
promote innovation in grains RD&E
value-add or complement existing GRDC activities.

Document contact and enquiries

Attention: Linda McDougall
Grains Research and Development Corporation
Email: linda.mcdougall@grdc.com.au

Make all requests for further information or clarification in relation to this procurement in writing (email) prior to 13 May 2025

GRDC will publish all requests and responses to requests on the GRDC website under Questions and Answers at the bottom of this webpage.

Lodgement of Tender

Submit your Tender response electronically through the Grains Investment Portal.

Description

If you share our commitment to the Australian grains industry and want to apply for GRDC sponsorship, in your application please demonstrate how GRDC sponsorship will:

deliver value for GRDC and the broader Australian grains industry and community
promote innovation in grains RD&E
value-add or complement existing GRDC activities.

Proposed budget

Proposed Contract & Term

GRDC will contract under the terms of the sponsorship agreement.

The schedule(s) attached to the contract will detail the project details: the outcomes, outputs, milestones, budget, participating personnel and required intellectual property.

The template Contract containing the proposed terms and conditions is available from the GRDC website on the Application resources page.

Conditions for participation

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

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

Minimum Form and Content Requirements

Evaluation Criteria

In the table below are the Evaluation Criteria that the Tender Evaluation Team will use to assess the value for money of all Tenders.

No	Type	Weighting
1	Purpose of the event and how the proposed program will support the purpose e.g. speakers, topics, field tours.	25%
2	Alignment to GRDC strategy and priorities. Our strategy is informed by the priorities of growers and industry, we need to understand where the tour fits in with the strategy, and if not what the reasons are for this. More information can be found on our website or RD&E Plan. Consideration will also be given to: Risk e.g. likelihood event will proceed as planned or mitigation measures, and the balance of investment across regions or investment areas.	25%
3	Scope and benefit of impact. How will the event impact research and development, promote knowledge sharing and innovation, build industry capacity or increase on-farm adoption of R&D.	25%
4	Entitlements to be offered in return for sponsorship. Please include how much you are requesting from GRDC and what the benefits to GRDC will be. For example, there may be opportunities to talk to audiences, share R&D through speakers, trade stands, email campaigns or publications in event satchels, complimentary registrations or brand/logo placement. A sponsorship prospectus can be attached before submission.	25%