2019 Major Review of APIQ✓® Program – Call for Tender

The APIQ✓^® Certification Policies require a major review of the APIQ✓^® standards be conducted every four years. The 2019 major review involves a review of standards, policies, systems, documentation and administration. It plays an important role in ensuring APIQ✓^®’s overall integrity, credibility and preparedness, ensuring that the APIQ✓^® Program delivers the future that the Australian pork producers and the supply chain need.

To facilitate the major review, a suitably experienced and qualified consultant/mediator is required to work with APIQ✓^® Management (APIQM) to:

• identify, engage, coordinate and facilitate stakeholder working groups and committees to review specific aspects of APIQ✓^®.
• conduct desk top reviews of APIQ✓^® documents, templates and records.
• review opportunities for improvement identified in existing reports and stakeholder feedback and make recommendations to APIQM for implementation.
• provide reports of findings, opportunities for improvement and recommendations from all review activities as listed below.

Interested parties are invited to contact APIQM for more information prior to submitting their written tender before 1 March 2019. All tenders must include:

• an overview of previous experience in reviewing of agricultural quality assurance programs.
• a detailed plan of how the major review would be coordinated including an explanation as to how stakeholders would be engaged (meetings etc.)
• a written quote for conducting the review.

For more information please contact Steven Miller, APIQ✓^® Operations Manager on 02 6270 8808 or 0439 261 168 or email steven.miller@australianpork.com.au