Initial stimulus funding to enhance and improve clinical trial infrastructure in rural, regional and remote areas of Australia

You are not eligible to apply if you are:

• an individual
• a partnership
• an unincorporated association
• any organisation not included in section 3.1 of the grant opportunity guidelines
• a trust (however, an incorporated trustee may apply on behalf of a trust)
• a non-corporate Commonwealth entity

To be eligible your project must:

• be aimed at the objectives and outcomes in section 1.3 of the grant opportunity guidelines
• have at least $5 million in eligible expenditure
• include one or more of the following eligible activities
  • minor capital works
  • development/installation of research equipment
  • employment of personnel

We may also approve other activities.

We will consider activities based outside of rural, regional and remote areas, provided the proposal can demonstrate the benefit to patients in rural, regional and remote areas. However, preference will be given to trial activities provided in rural, regional and remote areas.

Unless otherwise formally agreed with the department, the definition of Rural, Regional and Remote areas for this grant opportunity are locations in the MMM (Modifed Monash Model) Classification 3-7 (use the MMM Locator on the Health Workforce Locator tool to determine Classification).

We assess your application against the eligibility criteria and then against the assessment criteria. Only eligible applications will proceed to the assessment stage.

We refer your application to an independent committee of experts (the Committee). The Committee will consider your application on its merits. The Committee will recommend which projects to fund. For more on the grant selection process, refer to section 7 of the grant opportunity guidelines.

The Program Delegate (who is an Australian Government official who has been authorised to make decisions) will make the final decision.

To be competitive you must score satisfactorily against all of the assessment criteria.

• Assessment criterion 1: Project impact (40% weighting)
• Assessment criterion 2: Project methodology (30% weighting)
• Assessment criterion 3: Capacity, capability and resources to deliver the project (30% weighting)
• Assessment criterion 4: Overall value and risk of the project (non-weighted: a rating scale for assessment criterion 4 is at Appendix D of the grant opportunity guidelines)

If your application is successful, you will receive a written offer. If you are unsuccessful, we will notify you in writing and give you the chance to discuss the outcome with us.

Successful applicants must enter into a grant agreement with the Commonwealth. The grant agreement will specify the reporting requirements, payment schedule and milestones necessary to receive payments.

We will make payments according to an agreed schedule set out in the grant agreement. Payments are subject to satisfactory progress on the project.

Payments will be made by direct credit into a nominated bank account.