EDGE Grant 2026: scope your project before you apply

If your business was preparing a Productivity Solutions Grant application for new software, the scheme is changing under you. Enterprise Singapore says the Enterprise Development Grant (EDG), Market Readiness Assistance (MRA) grant and Productivity Solutions Grant (PSG) cease on 29 September 2026. From 30 September, business grant support is applied for under a single EDGE Grant.

The headline terms are simple. EnterpriseSG’s EDGE Grant page lists support of up to 70% for SMEs and up to 50% for non-SMEs, varying by activity, and a cap of $100,000 in total grant support a year, shared across all activities. What the numbers cannot tell you is whether your project qualifies. That depends on the activity, the costs and the conditions the agency sets.

So this is a scoping method, not an eligibility guide. Work out what you are trying to change, and what evidence you have, before a vendor tells you what the grant will pay for.

At a glance

• Replaces: EDG, MRA and PSG, which cease on 29 September 2026. Submissions and projects already under way continue to be processed.
• Opens: 30 September 2026, with the new BizSG portal set to go live the same day, according to a speech by Senior Minister of State Low Yen Ling.
• Scope: eight business areas, including automation and digitalisation, business strategy, financial management, innovation, internationalisation, standards and sustainability.
• Support level: up to 70% for SMEs and up to 50% for non-SMEs, depending on the activity.
• Cap: up to $100,000 in total grant support per year across all activities, refreshed on 1 April.
• Payment: by reimbursement, after the activity is completed and fully paid for.

What changes if you were planning PSG, EDG or MRA?

The schemes that supported digital solutions, business upgrading projects and overseas market activities now sit under one grant. EnterpriseSG’s March 2026 Business Refresh Package release describes EDGE as a single scheme that will be available to all Singapore businesses, including non-SMEs.

Two features matter for planning. First, the $100,000 annual cap is shared: a firm that wants new software and an overseas trade fair in the same year has to decide which comes first. Second, reimbursement means you pay in full before you claim, so cash flow needs a plan of its own.

EnterpriseSG points businesses to the BizSG grant recommender to find relevant support. A recommendation is a starting point, not confirmation that a project will be supported.

Scope the project before you open BizSG

Write one page that answers these questions. It is useful whether or not you apply.

1. Problem: what is slow, costly or blocked today, and how do you know? Include a current measurement.
2. Change: what will be different when the project is done, and which business area it falls under.
3. Options: at least two ways to solve it, including one that needs no grant.
4. Costs: quotes that separate one-off costs from recurring ones, and what continues after the project.
5. People: who owns the project, and who will use the result every week.
6. Timing: when you would sign, pay and finish, and what the project depends on.
7. Evidence: the measure you will record before and after.
8. Cash: whether you can pay in full before any reimbursement arrives.

Worked example: a food manufacturer with two ideas

Consider a fictional 15-person food manufacturer in Tai Seng. Orders arrive by phone and messaging apps, are copied into a spreadsheet and then re-keyed into the accounting software. The owner also wants to exhibit at a first overseas trade fair.

Scoping the first idea, the operations lead times the re-keying for two weeks and finds it takes about six hours a week. Our time-saving calculator turns an assumed saving into an annual figure, which is a planning estimate, not a promised result. Two vendors quote for an order-management system; one quote bundles three years of subscription, so the lead asks for one-off and recurring costs separately.

The trade fair scope is thinner: no target buyers, no budget beyond the booth. The owner decides to pursue the software first and spend the next quarter researching the market. Because the annual cap is shared, that ordering matters. The company, its numbers and its choices are invented to show the method.

Questions to settle before you sign anything

• Must the application be approved before you sign a contract or pay a deposit? Check the official EDGE conditions before committing.
• Is the solution or service supportable under EDGE, as shown on BizSG or EnterpriseSG’s own pages, not only in a vendor’s brochure?
• Which costs are one-off, which are recurring, and what happens to recurring costs after the supported period?
• Who keeps the data and configuration if you later change vendor?
• Does the project touch invoicing? If so, check how it fits your GST InvoiceNow date.

Treat any promise of guaranteed approval with caution: only the agency decides. If the project involves AI tools, our first AI pilot guide shows how to test whether the time saved survives the checking.

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