Small Business Cyber Resilience Service Grant Opportunity | business.gov.au (2024)

You can apply if you:

• have an Australian business number (ABN)
• are registered for Goods and Services Tax (GST)

and are one of the following entities:

• an entity, incorporated in Australia
• an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Corporation registered under the Corporations (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) Act 2006 (Cth)
• a company limited by guarantee
• an incorporated trustee on behalf of a trust, where your trading activities:
  • form a sufficiently significant proportion of the corporation’s overall activities as to merit it being described as a trading corporation; or
  • are a substantial and not merely peripheral activity of the corporation
• an incorporated association
• an incorporated not for profit organisation or registered charity
• a publicly funded research organisation as defined in section 14 of the grant opportunity guidelines.

You can’t apply if you are:

• an organisation, or your project partner is an organisation, included on the National Redress Scheme’s list of Institutions that have not joined or signified their intent to join the Scheme
• an employer of 100 or more employees that has not complied with the Workplace Gender Equality Act (2012)
• an individual
• a Regional Development Australia Committee
• a co-operative
• a partnership
• an unincorporated association
• any organisation not included in section 4.1 of the grant opportunity guidelines
• a trust (however, an incorporated trustee may apply on behalf of a trust)
• a Commonwealth, state, territory or local government body (including government business enterprises
• a non-corporate Commonwealth entity.

Partner with other organisations

Joint applications are acceptable, provided you have a lead organisation who is the main driver of the project and is eligible to apply. But you must decide who the lead organisation is.

The lead organisation must fill out the application form.

If we give your group the grant, the lead organisation:

• signs the grant agreement
• is responsible for making sure your group follows the rules in the grant agreement.

You must complete your project by 31 March 2027.

Your project must be located in Australia.

You can apply for a grant up to $8.1 million.

You can use this grant funding for:

• labour, labour on-costs and contract expenditure
• domestic travel
• staff training
• ICT costs directly relevant to the project
• job advertising and recruiting, and recruitment contract negotiations.

Please see the grant opportunity guidelines for more information.

We may update the guidance on eligible and ineligible expenditure from time to time. If your application is successful, the version in place when you submitted your application applies to your project.

To be eligible, expenditure must:

• be a direct cost to the project
• be incurred by you within the project period
• be incurred by you for required project audit activities
• meet the eligible expenditure guidelines.

First we check that you meet the eligibility criteria. Then we assess your application against the assessment criteria.

The assessment criteria are a set of rules that describe how we must assess each application.

We give each criterion a certain number of points.

We’ll decide whether to award you the grant based on the total number of points we give your application.

• Assessment criterion 1: Extent to which your proposed service will improve the cyber security of small business and support impacted small businesses following a cyber incident (40 points)
• Assessment criterion 2: Capability to deliver the service (40 points)
• Assessment criterion 3: Financial capacity and governance (20 points)

The amount of detail and supporting evidence you provide should be relative to the project size, complexity and grant amount requested.

The Minister makes the final decision.

Sample applications

The best way to understand what information you need to provide is to start an application. We have also provided a version to download at the bottom of this page.

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