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End-to-End Grants Facilitation

At RIC, we are not just proposal writers or paper pushers. We partner with clients through every stage of the grant journey - from shaping strategy and building government relationships, to navigating submissions, evaluations, and claims.

Pure-play End-to-End Grant Management 

Real Inbound Consulting focuses purely in helping businesses navigate the complexities of applying and claiming for strategic business grants. While we support mainstream grants such as the Enterprise Development Grant (EDG) by Enterprise Singapore (previously known as CDG grant from Spring Singapore and GCP grant from IE Singapore), MRA by Enterprise Singapore and the CTC grant by NTUC e2i ​- we also have success with niche ones from sectorial agencies like MAS, NEA, STB, MPA, and IMDA. We can help with most of the grants listed on Singapore's national grant listing portal GovAssist, which serves as the most updated reference source for grants available.​

We Take Ownership of The Full Spectrum

Phase 1: Discovery & Grant Matching

One to two weeks

  • Grant Discovery & Matching: Understand the client's project and growth plans, then identify and shortlist the grant schemes best aligned to their needs.

  • Grant Roadmapping: Plan a forward roadmap of grants beyond the first application, aligned with each stage of the client's growth.

  • Agency Touchpoint Identification: Identify the appropriate agency contact or channel for the project, so the application is directed correctly from the outset.

  • Pre-Submission Alignment: Engage the relevant agency early to confirm scheme fit and requirements, ensuring the full application is well scoped and complete before submission.

Phase 2: Application Preparation

One to two weeks

  • Application Planning: Advise on the key components of the application to ensure the project is presented clearly and in line with scheme requirements.

  • Application Preparation: Build all application assets, including project proposals, costing tables, financial forecasts, and other materials required by the agency. Check and organize documents provided by the client to ensure completeness and suitability for submission.

  • Proposal Development: Present the project's merits and expected impact clearly, mapped against each scheme's stated evaluation criteria.

  • Application Submission: Guide clients step by step through the relevant online portal, such as the Business Grants Portal (BGP), in line with the agency's defined channels and procedures..

Phase 3: Application Evaluation

Two to twelve weeks

  • Evaluation Support: Help clients navigate the assessment process with grant agencies, ensuring queries are addressed promptly and clearly.

  • Strategic Responses: Support clients in preparing factually accurate and appropriate responses to every round of enquiry from the grant evaluators.

  • Project Coordination: Support clients with timely follow ups on application revisions, as requested by grant evaluators.

Phase 4: Offer Letter Award & Review

One week

  • Offer Analysis: Review the offer, highlighting key terms, deliverables, and potential pitfalls for the client to be aware of.

  • Documentation Framework: Set up a tracking framework for project related documents from the outset, so clients have everything organized and ready when it comes time to claim.

  • Claims Preparation: Provide clients with a claims strategy and documentation blueprint, aligned with the offer letter's requirements.

  • Deliverable Feasibility Review: Where a deliverable appears difficult to achieve as scoped, work with the client and the agency to confirm a realistic path forward, supporting smoother claims and disbursement outcomes.

  • Acceptance: Coordinate offer acceptance procedures.

Phase 5: Project Execution 

Duration depends on Project

  • Project Monitoring: Track progress against the grant offer timeline and stipulations, flagging deviations early so they can be addressed before they affect claims.

  • Milestone Claims: Prepare and submit milestone based claims as each stage is completed, keeping disbursements on track where the scheme allows for it.

  • Interim Claims Handling: Manage claims disbursed across earlier milestones ahead of project completion, keeping each submission accurate and properly documented as the project progresses.

  • Documentation Compliance: Maintain records, such as signed quotations, invoices, payslips, and delivery orders, in line with the offer letter's qualifying period, expenditure, and deliverable conditions, so nothing is scrambled together at claim time.

  • Variation Handling: Manage timeline extensions and scope amendments through the formal process, preparing complete requests to support a smooth agency review.

Phase 6: Final Claims Preparation

One to two weeks

  • Claims Management: Manage the end to end claims process, helping clients avoid common pitfalls that could delay or affect disbursement.

  • Claims Preparation: On project completion, assist the client in preparing for claims, including checking vendor invoices and bank statements against expenses paid, completing final project reports, and engaging claims auditors.

  • Documentation Consolidation: Consolidate and prepare all other paperwork required for claims submission.

  • Submission Support: Support the submission of claims on the grant agency's dedicated portal, in accordance with their process.

Phase 7: Final Claims Evaluation

 One to eight weeks

  • Audit Support: Provide guidance in drafting accurate, complete responses to every round of enquiry from the claims auditors, and facilitate engagement with external grant auditors where required.

  • Query Resolution: Work through auditor questions thoroughly, aiming for a clean and efficient close to the audit process.

Phase 8: Claims Disbursements

 One to two weeks

  • Disbursement Administration: Once claims are approved, help the client manage the administrative steps for disbursement of claims monies into their bank account.

Why Choose RIC for Grants Facilitation

Our expertise enables us to handle grants much faster than clients could if they were to do these themselves, leading to significantly quicker approvals, optimal support levels and smooth reimbursements.​

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Specialist Grant Advisory Focus

RIC is focused on structuring and facilitating grant-supportable projects. Our team brings experience across grant advisory, government-related work, accounting, technology consulting and project execution.

Consultants reviewing documents for grant application and project planning

End-to-End Grant Lifecycle Support

RIC supports the full grant journey, from eligibility assessment, project scoping and proposal preparation to evaluator clarifications, offer-letter review, claims submission, audit support and reimbursement follow-through.

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Certified Professional Expertise

RIC’s consultants include Professional Singapore Certified Management Consultants certified by TUV SUD and recognised under Enterprise Singapore’s Consultant Quality Initiative, strengthening the professionalism behind our advisory work.

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Stronger Applications, Smoother Claims

We help clients prepare clearer proposals, stronger project impact calculations and more complete supporting evidence, while managing the claims process where documentation gaps and compliance issues often arise.

Innovation and technology planning representing R&D and transformation grants

Track Record Across Project Sizes

We have supported 500+ grant-backed projects ranging from smaller growth initiatives to multi-million-dollar transformation projects, serving startups, SMEs, scale-ups, MNCs and listed companies across industries.

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Success-Aligned Engagement

Where suitable, RIC works on a success-aligned fee model, meaning our commercial interest is tied to successful grant outcomes rather than paperwork alone.

Grant Pathways We Commonly Support

RIC supports companies across a range of Singapore grant and incentive pathways. The right pathway depends on company profile, project objective, budget, timing, eligibility and readiness to execute.

RIS(C)

Research and Innovation Scheme for Companies

Supports companies building R&D and innovation capabilities in Singapore through new or improved products, services, applications or processes.

Up to 60% for local manpower; up to 30% for foreign manpower and equipment.

Funding quantum varies by project. Cost-category caps and milestone commitments may apply.

EDGE OBD Staff Deployment

EDGE - Internationalisation - Overseas Business Development Staff Deployment

Support for overseas deployment of a permanent BD employee to drive in-market business development and marketing for up to 12 months.

Up to 70% for SMEs; up to 50% for non-SMEs

Up to S$100,000 total EDGE grant support per company per year

GIA Co-Innovation Programmes (CIP)

Global Innovation Alliance Co-Innovation Programmes

Supports Singapore companies collaborating with overseas partners on joint R&D projects to develop new products or solutions with strong market potential.

Up to 70%

No fixed programme-wide funding cap stated; grant quantum depends on the approved project.

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Refundable Investment Credit

Supports significant new or expanded investments in Singapore across areas such as headquarters activities, centres of excellence, R&D, innovation, decarbonisation and strategic economic activities.

10%, 30% or 50% of qualifying expenditures, depending on project profile.

Funding quantum varies by project and approved qualifying expenditures.

EDGE Large-scale Automation

EDGE - Automation - Large-scale Automation

Supports advanced technologies for enterprise-wide automation and integration across production and operational systems.

Up to 50% for SMEs; up to 30% for non-SMEs

Large-scale project: not subject to the S$100,000 annual EDGE cap; support amount assessed by EnterpriseSG

CCP New Hire

Career Conversion Programme — New Hire

Supports employers hiring mid-career Singapore Citizens or PRs into growth roles through structured on-the-job training and salary support.

Up to 70% salary support, or up to 90% for eligible mature or long-term unemployed trainees.

Salary support capped at S$5,000 or S$7,500 per month.

EDGE Product Development

EDGE - Innovation - Product Development

Supports development of new products, services and solutions through technological innovation with the end goal of bringing them to market.

Up to 50% for SMEs; up to 30% for non-SMEs

Large-scale project: not subject to the S$100,000 annual EDGE cap; support amount assessed by EnterpriseSG

EDGE Large-scale Digital Transformation

EDGE - Digitalisation - Large-scale Digital Transformation

Supports enterprise-wide digital initiatives integrating modern technologies to improve workflows, digital capabilities and sustainable growth.

Up to 50% for SMEs; up to 30% for non-SMEs

Large-scale project: not subject to the S$100,000 annual EDGE cap; support amount assessed by EnterpriseSG

How We Bring Value To All Stakeholders in A Grant Project

We operate on a success-based model that de-risks client engagements, while taking full ownership of the grant process end-to-end. We eliminate administrative burden, structure and justify funding requests to achieve optimal support levels, manage grant authority queries, and ensure smooth claims, audit, and reimbursement execution to protect timelines and cash flow.​

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