Deadline: 17-Jan-22
The Australian Government has launched a funding call for 2nd round of Supply Chain Resilience Initiative (SCRI) to strengthen Australia’s ability to access critical products and inputs, better positioning them to respond to future supply chain disruptions.
The Supply Chain Resilience Initiative provides businesses up to $2 million to establish or scale a manufacturing capability or a related activity to address supply chain vulnerabilities for a critical product or input identified in the Sovereign Manufacturing Capability Plan.
The objectives of the program are to:
- work with industry to identify supply options to address vulnerabilities
- address vulnerabilities identified in the Sovereign Manufacturing Capability Plan by incentivising Australian businesses to invest in capabilities through new equipment, technology, skills and processes.
Funding Information
- Grants from $50,000 to $2 million.
- The maximum project period is two years.
- You must complete your project by 31 March 2024.
Eligible Projects
For your project to be eligible, your application must show:
- a minimum of $100,000 in eligible project expenditure
- that you are a manufacturing business or a business within the manufacturing supply chain
- that your project addresses supply chain vulnerabilities associated with critical product categories identified in the Sovereign Manufacturing Capability Plan- external site
- evidence from your board (or chief executive officer or equivalent if there is no board) that the project is supported
- that you can complete the project and meet the costs of the project not covered by grant funding
- how you will provide your share of project costs.
Eligibility Criteria
- To be eligible you must:
- have an Australian Business Number (ABN)
- be non-income tax-exempt
- be registered for the Goods and Services Tax (GST)
- be an entity incorporated in Australia and a trading corporation.
- If you are a trading corporation, your trading activities must:
- form a sufficiently significant proportion of the corporation’s overall activities as to merit it being described as a trading corporation; or
- form a substantial and not merely peripheral activity of the corporation.
For more information, visit https://business.gov.au/grants-and-programs/supply-chain-resilience-initiative-round-2