Productivity Solutions Grant closed: what to do with a quote

The Productivity Solutions Grant (PSG) ceased on 29 September 2026. Enterprise Singapore says business grant support is now applied for under the EDGE Grant from 30 September, and its EDGE FAQ says no new application will be accepted under the old schemes after 30 September 2026. A vendor quote on its own can therefore no longer become a PSG application.

If you submitted a PSG application before 30 September, or your PSG project is already under way, Enterprise Singapore says it continues under the requirements of the relevant scheme. So work out which of three positions you are in: quote only, application pending, or project approved (our own sorting rule, not agency categories). This guide sets out what Enterprise Singapore’s pages say for each, and marks where we are inferring. It cannot say whether your project qualifies; only the agency decides. For EDGE’s scope, read our EDGE Grant guide; for every scheme side by side, see our SME grants tracker.

Which of the three positions are you in?

Ask three questions in order.

1. Did you submit an application on the Business Grants Portal (BGP) before 30 September 2026? If not, you are in the quote-only position.
2. Has it been approved? If not, you are in the pending position.
3. If it has, have you bought or subscribed to the solution, used it and paid for it in full? If yes, you are ready to claim; if not, the project is under way.

I only have a quote. What now?

Treat the quote as a draft scope, not a plan. The EDGE FAQ says an application is deemed retrospective if the applicant has started work or made any payment or deposit to a supplier, vendor or third party before submission, and retrospective applications will not be supported. Payment made after submission may be supported if the application is later approved, but submission does not guarantee approval and the company bears the risk of any commitment made before approval. The EDGE FAQ does not say whether signing a contract counts as starting work. PSG’s own FAQ was stricter: it said a company should not have signed any contract or made any payment before submitting. Our suggestion is to treat signing as starting until Enterprise Singapore says otherwise, and to ask it or an SME Centre before you sign.

Points to check against the quote:

• Vendor lists: for integrated enterprise systems the FAQ says you may choose a package from the pre-approved vendors (one week’s processing, against ten weeks for another vendor). For single-function digital solutions it points to the IMDA SMEs Go Digital platform, which it also names for supportable cost components. We could not open those lists, so we cannot say whether a package quoted under PSG’s list is on EDGE’s. IMDA’s SMEs Go Digital page, updated 7 August 2026, mentions pre-approved solutions with “up to 50% grant support” but not PSG or EDGE; it predates the change, so do not read it as EDGE terms.
• Support level: the EDGE Grant page says up to 70% for SMEs and up to 50% for non-SMEs. The FAQ breaks this down by activity: up to 50% for SMEs and 30% for non-SMEs, rising to up to 70% and 50% for internationalisation and sustainability.
• Cap: up to S$100,000 a year across activities, refreshed on 1 April each year, and within it up to S$30,000 on single-function digital solutions, integrated enterprise systems and pre-scoped equipment (one FAQ answer says selected automation instead). Earlier EDG, MRA and PSG grants do not count against these caps, says the FAQ.
• Payment: reimbursement once the activity is complete and fully paid for, in a single, final claim.

Worked example: splitting a quote into lines

Take an illustrative quote of S$18,000 from a software vendor to a 20-person trading firm: S$12,000 for a year’s subscription, S$3,000 for setup and S$3,000 for staff training. PSG’s own FAQ supported only the actual purchase, lease or hire cost of the pre-approved solution, excluding other related administrative fees such as delivery and installation. We found no EDGE page that says how setup and training are treated, so the firm plans for both outcomes. For the arithmetic only, assume the FAQ’s general ceiling of 50% for SMEs.

• If only the S$12,000 subscription is supportable, 50% would be at most S$6,000.
• If setup is also supportable, 50% of S$15,000 would be at most S$7,500.
• Because EDGE reimburses after full payment, our reading is that the firm should expect to fund the whole S$18,000 first. If the grant paid the maximum, its net cost would be S$12,000 or S$10,500.
• The S$30,000 sub-cap is not the constraint: a project would need to cost S$60,000 for 50% to reach it.

These figures show the arithmetic, not a forecast: the firm and numbers are invented, and Enterprise Singapore decides what is supported and at what rate. Our suggestion: ask the vendor to itemise the quote, extend its validity and confirm in writing that nothing is payable before you apply.

I submitted before 30 September. Is my application still being assessed?

Enterprise Singapore says so: the EDGE FAQ says applications submitted for EDG, MRA and PSG before 30 September 2026 continue to be assessed on the requirements of the relevant scheme. That is not approval. The PSG FAQ says processing takes about six weeks from submission of all required information, which for an application submitted on 29 September 2026 is 10 November 2026 (our arithmetic).

While you wait, watch BGP for a request for updates. If an application is reworked to you, the PSG FAQ says you may withdraw it on BGP; for one still being processed, contact Enterprise Singapore. You can cancel or terminate in BGP if you no longer wish to continue. The PSG FAQ says companies can commence the project after submitting, but that a company which buys before the outcome cannot claim if the application is unsuccessful.

The point most likely to catch people is the vendor. The PSG FAQ says no change of vendor or solution package is allowed after approval: terminate the application and resubmit a new one before proceeding and paying the new vendor. With PSG closed to new applications, our inference is that a resubmission would be a new application under EDGE’s conditions. The EDGE FAQ says businesses that previously applied under PSG can apply for EDGE, but neither FAQ says which scheme’s rules a vendor-change resubmission follows, so confirm with Enterprise Singapore before terminating anything.

My PSG project is approved. What are the claim rules?

The PSG page says to accept the Letter of Offer within the specified timeline and to submit claims through BGP when the project is complete, by the claim due date in the Letter of Offer. The PSG FAQ adds:

• Conditions: you have bought or subscribed to the solution as approved, used it and paid in full. The PSG page adds that it must have been deployed and installed for at least 30 days, and that an IT solution’s usage report should show at least one month of use. Only one claim is allowed per approved application. If you no longer meet the eligibility criteria after approval, the claim will not be supported.
• Claim due date: the last date for PSG claims in BGP; if you miss it, you cannot submit a claim. You may extend once, before it expires; only one extension is allowed, “after which your grant will automatically expire”. The FAQ does not say how long it runs.
• Payout: PayNow Corporate within 14 working days of claim approval, according to the PSG page; GIRO may take up to eight weeks.
• Holding period: one year from the date of approval of the final claim.

If SFEC credit is involved, put the claim due date beside 30 November 2026, the final-claims date the EDGE FAQ gives for SFEC-supported programmes. Our SkillsFuture Enterprise Credit guide explains the credit and its expiry.

What to check this week

• Find your application or quote reference, and which position you are in.
• Quote: confirm no deposit has been paid and no work has started; ask the vendor to itemise and extend it.
• Pending: note your submission date and open BGP for any request for updates.
• Approved: write down the claim due date, and check the solution is in use and paid for before you claim.
• Before changing vendor, ask which scheme’s rules the new application would follow.

For wider context see our productivity topic page. If the software touches invoicing, check how it fits your GST InvoiceNow date.

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