Funding to support advisory services to lift small businesses’ digital adoption

Provides funding to service providers to deliver low cost, high quality digital advisory services (workshops, webinars, online training and one-to-one mentoring) to help small businesses adopt digital tools across five priority capabilities over a five-year period.

Explicit eligibility requirements: Applicants must have an Australian Business Number (ABN) or an Indigenous Corporation Number (ICN), be registered for the Goods and Services Tax (GST) (extensions of time for GST registration will be considered), and be a trading corporation where trading activities form a sufficiently significant proportion of the corporation's overall activities.

Applicants must address all assessment criteria (including sub-criteria).

Eligible entity types: an entity incorporated in Australia (this includes incorporated not-for-profit organisations, registered charities and companies limited by guarantee), an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Corporation registered under the Corporations (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) Act 2006, or an incorporated trustee on behalf of a trust.

Applicants may apply independently or as part of a consortium but must appoint a lead applicant; only the lead applicant can submit the application and enter into the agreement with the Commonwealth.

If the application involves partners, the application must identify all members of the proposed group and, if deemed meritorious, letters of support will be required from each project partner.

Formal arrangements with all parties must be in place prior to 2026-07-01.

Required attachments with the application: project plan (including a risk management plan), detailed project budget broken down by financial year, marketing strategy for the service area, a letter of reference with referee contact details from at least one organisation you have provided services for, and, where applicable, a trust deed.

File size limits: individual files must be <= 2 MB and total attachments <= 20 MB.

Applications will first be reviewed against eligibility criteria; only eligible applications proceed to assessment against the assessment criteria.

Applicants must submit a separate application for each service area they wish to service.