Construction Business Advancement Grant Program

What you should know

The grant will help you:

improve your business’s capability, skills, productivity and efficiency

support compliance and regulatory requirements

reduce operating costs

adopt digital tools to strengthen your business operations and competitiveness.

You must use the grant to buy items listed in our catalogue of eligible products. Items fall into 2 areas – business management software and training.

Business management software – including software upgrades

Software products include:

general business productivity (e.g. project management tools)

accounting and financial management (e.g. payroll, invoicing)

compliance (e.g. tools for regulatory or safety compliance)

construction-specific software.

If you buy a product through a Software as a Service (SaaS) subscription model, grant funding will support your subscription for up to 24 months.

You can use the grant to upgrade software you already use to a more productivity-enabling level or tier option. The software must meet all eligibility criteria.

If you would like to buy a software product that is not included in the catalogue, you can complete a request for us to review the item. You must provide detailed information about the product, including costs and other requested information. We will review the product and may list it in the catalogue for selection.

Training

You can use the grant to pay for training and support to use eligible business management software. This includes customised training content.

Who can apply

Your business must:

have 19 employees or less (by headcount)

have a turnover in the last financial year (2025-26) of $10 million or less

be actively operating a business whose main activity is providing goods or services to customers

be operating, and have an active Australian Business Number (ABN)

have a minimum trading history of 1 year

be registered for GST (as per your Australian Business Register (ABR) record)

be registered under an ATO business industry code related to construction, and focused on residential and non-residential building and related trades

use the business industry code search to help you identify your business industry code

have a registered Queensland headquarters location (as per your ABR record).

You must meet these criteria at the time you apply, and for the duration of the grant funded project submission.

You can receive up to $5,000 (excluding GST) and use the grant to pay for:

business management software

training for related software.

You will receive your payment via rebate. Do not buy your software or related training until you have been advised your application has been successful.