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department of employment, skills, small and family business the department works to provide people access to services and support to help them overcome barriers and develop skills to gain employment and participate in society. in the 2019 - 20 budget, the government announced significant reforms to harvest labour services, as existing harvest labour services contracts are due to conclude on 26 june 2020. this measure aims to increase the number of australian job seekers working in the horticulture industry and ensure employers can access seasonal workers at the right time. this is a pre-release notice only to provide advance notice that the department intends to undertake an open tender to identify suitable organisations to deliver harvest labour services / national harvest labour information services for 3 years from 2020.

expression of interest eoi to seek responses from the market from suitably qualified, capable and experienced contractors to provide a full range of national cleaning services services for abc premises in australia.

supply of abc has conducted a review of its current radio operations and has identified issues and limitations in the following broad areas; core studio audio infrastructure, audio distribution networks, studio consoles, localisation of networked programs. the abc is seeking to engage with vendors who have the products and capability to work collaboratively with the abc to transform its radio and broader audio operations into a modern, flexible and efficient system capable of meeting its emerging future needs. this rfi seeks information from the market on solutions for audio network transformation over two phases in queensland: phase one; an operational pilot phase used to test the transformation design and implementation; and phase two; assuming successful completion of phase one, the abc may then fully implement the transformation solutions across its queensland operational environment.

office of national intelligence oni, on behalf of the national intelligence community nic, is seeking consultancy and technical services to undertake the detailed design of a common network and interoperable access card system to enable badge holders to enter facilities across the nic. this concept of allowing access to multiple nic agencies with a single badge is known as ‘ one pass’. the scope of the design includes the main canberra-based headquarters of the ten intelligence agencies that form the nic.

crg program is administered by the australian institute of criminology aic on the basis of recommendations from the criminology research advisory council crac, or the advisory council. the advisory council, which includes representatives from each of the contributing governments, provides recommendations to the director of the aic on research priorities and an assessment of research grants applications made under the annual crg program. the crac bases its assessment on the recommendations of an academic panel chaired by the academic advisor an aic research staff member. the aic will award contracts in varying values.

provision of private hospital services for entitled persons by publishing this invitation to provide private hospital services to the veteran community. dva serves australia’s veteran community, through the provision of programmes of care, compensation and commemoration. dva’s aim is to secure high quality private hospital care for entitled persons delivered for a fair price, at the most convenient locations for entitled persons. as the veteran community ages, their capacity to access a wider range of care appropriate to their needs is increasingly important. managing emerging and different needs of contemporary veterans is also a priority. dva also aims to continually improve the quality and safety of services, and the health outcomes for dva clients, through the purchase of evidence-based treatment services. dva’s new approach to contracting for private hospital services in the past dva contracted with private hospitals for services to entitled persons through a request for tenders rft. the current process that dva is engaging in with private hospital providers is not an rft. dva has introduced new arrangements for providers to contract with dva. this is a simplified contracting model that dva is using to facilitate engagement with suitably qualified providers. a summary of the key features of the new arrangements are: maximising the numbers of participating providers to achieve wide access to private hospitals services for the veteran community; there is no competition, all qualified providers can participate; while providers are required to submit the fee tables, there is no requirement for tender submission or evaluation of tenders; providers self-certify their compliance with dva’s terms and conditions of the hospital services agreement; providers can enter into the hospital services agreement at any time and the hospital services agreement will continue until dva ends the arrangements or the contracting entity exits the arrangements with dva; and negotiation only on fees to ensure value for money.

emergency management, training and documentation services in the form of the following: advice in relation to compliance requirements, standards and practices; development and delivery of emergency management and response training; review and maintenance of current emergency management arrangements, plans and procedures; development and maintenance of emergency management arrangements, plans and procedures; provision of the emergency plan, including emergency response procedures, evacuation diagrams and training schedule for each nominated site; and provision of other services required as per any relevant statutory or legislative state or territory requirements.

cdic wishes to invite suitably qualified consultants/contractors to submit a tender for the development and delivery of a training program for itar and ear to be developed and delivered in melbourne, sydney, brisbane, adelaide, perth, and canberra to end june 2020. the training should provide defence smes with practical expertise and an understanding of current best practice for handling technologies controlled under itar or ear. the delivery and course material should be focused on an australian sme managing us export controlled items from a practical industry perspective, including examples of current best practice. at the completion of the training, sme participants should have developed a thorough understanding of the regulations and what is needed to ensure their companies handle controlled technologies appropriately. initiatives such as the us government’s ongoing export control reform and the australia – us defence trade controls treaty are to be addressed. additionally, there has been a shift in the jurisdiction of control from the itar to the ear following the us government’s export control reform agenda. given this, many australian defence smes need to revise and implement new processes to manage items under both jurisdictions. the training should address this issue. beyond the initial delivery of six workshops, there are three additional extension options, each comprising a minimum of 4 workshops and delivered in subsequent financial years.

provision of nsw and vic road worthy certificates for light, medium and heavy military vehicles

supply of production of high value, human consumption pulses in australia is dominated by lentil and chickpea, and is concentrated on the more fertile soils in the medium rainfall areas of the southern and northern regions. due to the farming system benefits of imposing a double break and the high prices in recent years, there is much interest in expanding lentil and chickpea production onto soils with a number of constraints acidity, nutrient toxicities and deficiencies, poor structure and into other rainfall zones. it is critical that new pulses be developed and managed such that the crop life-cycle fits within the constraints of availability of soil water, frost and heat stresses and flowering and pod-set occur in the optimum window for different agroecological zones. as time to flowering and pod-set are so critical in these crops, understanding and improving them in existing production regions and where they have not been optimised yet is one of the most critical elements that can contribute to their adoption and deliver potential step changes in yield and profit. the national pulse phenology investment proposed will utilise common genetic resources across existing and potential pulse expansion regions of australia to expedite delivery of data, tools and knowledge which can inform crop breeding. it will leverage international r&d activities, and new synergies provided by recent developments in understanding of genome synteny and conserved pathways in this group of crops to deliver on investment outputs. what is new there is a gap in understanding of the genetic control underlying phenology in pulse crops chickpea and lentil which underpins ‘fitting’ crop growth into the best timeframe for target production environments. the genes/ quantitative trait loci qtl identified will present the opportunity to: idetermine the genetic basis of contrasting adaptation characteristics of chickpea and lentil, iimatch critical phenological stages to the constraints and opportunities of the target environment, iiiidentify genetic and environmental factors controlling the rate of phasic development and reproductive survival across a range of target environments to inform breeding decisions and growers choice of varieties. knowledge of the effect of different phenology gene/allele combinations of pulse crops across diverse environments will facilitate the development of new varieties with higher yield potential and better yield stability than currently available in existing production zones and potential expansion areas. this will not only maintain the sustainability of the pulses in their traditional areas but facilitate growth and expansion into new target production environments. this is of particular relevance to the western region where the current production area of both crops is low <5, 000 ha but the potential is high, particularly for chickpeas as an alternative to lupin. access to improved varieties and knowledge will help growers match the life-cycle of pulse crops to australian growing conditions and close the gap between achieved versus potential yield, increasing farm productivity and profitability. investment description this investment aims at comprehensive characterisation of major genes and loci controlling phenology/flowering time, a key adaptation trait, in cultivated chickpea and lentil and their wild relatives. the investment will generate a comprehensive, high-quality dataset of chickpea and lentil phenology flowering, beginning and end of pod-set, maturity from field trials with locations in the three growing regions, controlled environment facilities, and large samples of diverse genetic material. this data set will be a critical input to the: agenetic analyses, the focus of this investment bgenerating critical datasets for potential modelling r&d to support risk analysis cfarming systems agronomy research. expected outcome profitable pulse crops as part of the farming system that contributes to enduring profitability for australian grain growers. by 2023, australian chickpea and lentil breeders have access to genetic and phenotyping tools to improve the matching of variety and environment for established and emerging production environments. expected outputs by 2022, 1.knowledge of genetic and environmental control of chickpea and lentil phenology including identification of qtls/genes controlling flowering, beginning and end of pod-set and maturity delivered to australian breeders. 2.a genetic database that accounts for the variation in phenology of existing australian chickpea and lentil varieties, and key pre-breeding and breeding lines. this database will be available for breeders to select parents for breeding crosses and for informing predictive models. 3.comprehensive, high-quality datasets of grain yield, linked to phenology, for a targeted set of latitudes and thermal environments. these data will be used in two ways. first, to develop tools that will guide breeders in the choice of parents to be used in crossing for developing varieties with potential to match phenological development of high yielding chickpea and lentil varieties to their target production environment. second, generate data that will contribute in further r&d efforts towards developing crop simulation models which will assist growers in risk analysis in decisions around chickpea and lentil production. 4.knowledge of the optimal phase development patterns of high yielding chickpea and lentil germplasm, within a defined set of relevant australian target production environment types.