PSG & EDG Grant Advisory in Singapore

No, and be wary of anyone who implies otherwise. PSG funds pre-approved solutions from vendors on the official listing, so it pays for a listed vendor's product, not a custom build by a firm that is not listed. GDI is not a PSG pre-approved vendor. If an off-the-shelf listed solution genuinely suits you, we will point you to it. If you need something custom, EDG is the scheme to look at instead.

EDG. It supports up to 50% of qualifying project cost for SMEs and does not require the vendor to be pre-approved. Enterprise Singapore requires SAC-accredited TR 43 or SS 680 certification only for management consultants, and states that consultants providing technical expertise in developing new technology do not need it — so a software developer can deliver an EDG-funded project without accreditation. Approval always rests with Enterprise Singapore.

You must apply and be approved before the project starts — and a project counts as started if you have begun work, made a payment, or signed a contract with your vendor. There are no retrospective claims. This is the single most common way SMEs lose funding they would otherwise have received: they sign with a supplier first and apply afterwards. Budget for the wait; EDG applications take roughly 8 to 12 weeks to process.

From 1 April 2026 MRA supports up to 70% of eligible third-party costs, capped at S$100,000 per company per new market, with sub-caps of S$20,000 for overseas market promotion, S$50,000 for business development and S$30,000 for market set-up. Your annual sales in that market must not have exceeded S$100,000 in any of the preceding three years, and there is no pre-approved vendor list — you choose your own vendor. MRA and EDG are expected to fold into EDGE in the second half of 2026.

No. Enterprise Singapore does not permit third-party companies to apply for or manage a grant on an applicant company's behalf. We help you prepare quotations, write-ups and supporting documents and walk you through the portal, but the application is submitted from your own account by your own people. Any consultant who offers to run it for you is describing something the rules do not allow.

No honest partner can. Approval rests entirely with the administering agency, and eligibility, support levels and caps change. What we can do is make sure you apply for the right scheme, scope it the way assessors expect, and submit a complete application — and tell you early if we think it will not qualify, rather than after you have paid for the paperwork.

No. The advisory is genuinely useful on its own, and sometimes the honest recommendation is a listed PSG product we do not supply. It does work better when the build and the application are aligned, because the scope, milestones and claim evidence then match — but that is a benefit, not a condition.