Local Capability Fund: 2025-26 Rounds are now open for WA SMEs

Provided by the Department of Energy and Economic Diversification, the Local Capability Fund (LCF) provides small to medium-sized enterprises in Western Australia with access to funding to improve capacity and competitiveness.
​IPS Management Consultants can be engaged to provide consulting support for your organisation, with access to partial funding through the Local Capability Fund where applicable.

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Creating Better Futures Through Increased Capability.
​The Local Capability Fund (LCF) helps small and medium-sized enterprises in Western Australia to increase their capability, capacity and competitiveness as suppliers of products, services and works to the Western Australian Government, major projects and other important markets.

The fund can be used for expenses such as:

• Making improvements to internal infrastructure, plant and equipment
  training
• Meeting pre-qualification requirements for supply-chain entry
  buying and upgrading essential equipment
• Engaging consultants to advise on matters including occupational health and safety, marketing, finance and cybersecurity
• Planning improvements to internal infrastructure, plant and equipment and training.

​Closing Date 4th September or when fully exhausted. Rounds available:

• Aboriginal Business
• Digital Transformation
• Standards Compliance
• Supplying Key Projects
• Regional Supplier

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Unlocking innovation. Amplifying power. Creating agency.
The IPS Power & Innovation team are creative thinkers and strategists, working alongside organisations, businesses, and communities to unlock power and innovation. Economic equity grows from sovereignty, readiness and agency. We understand that power can be hard and soft and that complex systems require emergent, adaptive thinking. Relationships, trust, and deep listening are at the heart of how we engage - honouring First Nations ways of knowing, doing and being. By building on existing strengths, amplifying knowledge systems and strengthening governance, we can support individuals and organisations in cultivating readiness and increasing agency.
Strategy & Planning

• Strategic and business plans
• Economic and sector development strategies
• Values-led planning and facilitation

Feasibility and Investment Readiness

• Feasibility studies and option analysis
• Business cases and cost–benefit analysis
• Investment logic and funding readiness

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