Funding to invest in capabilities to address supply chain vulnerabilities
Supply Chain Resilience Initiative Round 2Last Updated: 11 April 2022
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Supply Chain Resilience Initiative Round 2
What you get?
Grants from $50,000 to $2 million.
Who is this for?
A manufacturing business or a business within the manufacturing supply chain for critical products identified in the Sovereign Manufacturing Capability Plan.
Overview
Applicants should demonstrate how their project addresses vulnerabilities identified in the Sovereign Manufacturing Capability Plan, including through investment in new equipment, technology, skills and processes.
Successful applicants and projects will contribute to the program’s goals. The program aims to:
- improve Australia’s resilience to future supply chain shocks
- facilitate diversification of supply options and increase investment in the economy
- enable diversification into export markets and reduce reliance on domestic markets
- improve collaboration between domestic and international manufacturers and suppliers
- mitigate supply chain risks for critical products
- enhance visibility and transparency of the supply chain for critical products
- accelerate digitalisation and deeper integration of technology
- optimise supply chain performance.
Eligibility
Eligibile entities
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.
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
- 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.
We provide an accountant declaration template to help you confirm you can fund your share of the project costs, including any ineligible expenditure.
Critical product categories
There are two eligible critical product categories for this grant opportunity:
- Semiconductors
- Water Treatment Chemicals.
The Sovereign Manufacturing Capability Plan includes detail about each of these categories.
Who is not eligible
Applying
The Supply Chain Resilience Initiative is closed to applications.
Further guidance
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How we assess applications
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