Grants

- Productivity Solutions Grant (PSG)

Up to 80% funding support

Eligibility Criteria

● Registered and operating in Singapore.

● Purchase/lease/subscription of the IT solutions or equipment must be used in Singapore.

● An SME with minimum 30% local shareholding; AND Company's Group annual sales turnover less than S$100 million, OR less than 200 employees.

- Skillsfuture Enterprise Credit (SFEC)

Eligible employers will receive a one-off S$10,000 credit to cover up to 90% of out-of-pocket expenses on qualifying costs for supportable initiatives, over and above the support levels of existing schemes.

SFEC-supportable programmes

● Enterprise Development Grant (EDG).

● Enterprise Leadership for Transformation Programme (ELT).

● Market Readiness Assistance (MRA).

● Productivity Solutions Grants (PSG).

● Business Improvement Fund (BIF).

● Aviation Development Fund (ADF).

● Skills Framework-aligned courses (in support of the Industry Transformation Maps).

● Professional Conversion Programme (course fee expenses only).

● Rank-and File Place-and Train Programmes (course fee expenses only).

● Support for Job Redesign consultancy under Productivity Solutions Grant (PSG-JR).

● Job Redesign initiatives.

● Training Industry Professionals in Tourism (TIP-iT).

Eligible Criteria

● Have contributed at least $750 Skills Development Levy (SDL) over a qualifying period.

● Have employed at least three Singapore Citizens (SCs) or Permanent Residents (PRs) every month over the same period.

● Have not been qualified at any of the earlier periods.

- Enterprise Development Grant (EDG)

Automation

To support company's usage of automation and technology which can result in tangible benefits and significant growth.

Scope of work can cover:

● Adoption/development of sophisticated hardware and/or software solutions.

● Development of solutions that involve purchase of machinery and integration of systems.

● Training of staff to deploy solutions.

What is not supported:

● Set-up costs that are essential to starting a business.

● Cost of equipment and gadgets, such as copiers, laptops, tablets and mobile phones.

Support Level:

SMEs up to 80%; non-SMEs up to 60% of qualified costs from 1 April 2020 to 31 December 2020.

Eligibility criteria

● Be regitered and operating in Singapore.

● Be in a financially viable position to start and complete the project.

- Digital Resilience Bonus (DRB)

This is given on top of enhanced digitalisation assistance provided under the SMEs Go Digital programme. Food Services and Retail enterprises that have PayNow Corporate, e-invoicing, and use predefined categories of digital solutions for Business Processes, Digital Presence and Data Mining and Analystics can receive bous payouts of up to $10,000.

Eligibility criteria

Mandatory baseline

● UEN fall undler the Food Services or Retail sectors

● UEN incorporated on or before 26 May 2020

● UEN have an active PayNow Corporate account

● UEN is on Peppol e-invoicing network

- VCF Info‐Communications Technology (ICT) Grant

VCF ICT Grant Applications

Charities may submit their VCF ICT Grant applications https://www.app.ncss.gov.sg/ with their preferred vendor’s quotation. For registered/exempt charities that are NCSS members and are applying for ICT Grant portion (E), please submit your application under the Funding@Tech-and-GO!. For more information, please contact NCSS Pumpkin Squad at Tech-and-GO@ncss.gov.sg. For project costs exceeding $6,000, charities should also submit 3 quotations of comparable scope or specifications.

- Tech-and Go!

Social Service Agencies can get funding from National Council of Social Service (NCSS) when adopt pre-scoped solutions.

Eligibility criteria

Agency must be NCSS member or an SSA funded by MSF

Note: SSAs running MOH-funded programmes should tap on Healthcare Productivity Fund (HPF) and Community Silver Trust (CST) instead.

Funding option

● Start Digital (Pre-scoped IT Solutions)

Up to 80%, capped at $30,000 per SSA

Each SSA can only purchase up to $8,000 worth of laptops. To benefit as many SSAs as possible, the sum of laptop funding received across VCF and TNG cannot exceed $8,000.

● Go Digital ( Large scale/specialised IT solutions)

Up to 80%, capped at $300,000 per project.

Pls get customer to email to enquire 1st elaine_chung@ncss.gov.sg or ho_shiting@ncss.gov.sg

● Project Consultancy

Up to 80%, capped at $40,000 for pre-qualified consultancy from Jan 2021 onwards.

- Matching Grant (Malaysia)

To Small & Medium Enterprises (SME) to adopt Digitalisation in daily operations.

Features of Grant

● Grant amounting up to 50% or a maximum of RM 5,000 from total invoice amount.

● Great deals on digital solutions from a wide list of panels listed by MDEC.

● Wide range of digitalisation areas:

i. Electronic Point of Sale System (e-POS)

ii. Human Resource Payroll System (HR) / Customer Relationship

● Management (CRM)

iii. Digital Marketing / Sales

iv. Procurement

v. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) / Accounting & Taxation