Supply Chain Sales Accelerator Programme: Eligibility Criteria

Are You Eligible?

To be eligible, participating businesses must:

Be an SME with over 5 but less than 250 employees.
Have a minimum annual turnover of £100,000 and not exceeding £40 million per annum (or Euro Equivalent).
Be an indigenous business registered in Ireland or Northern Ireland.
Be active in the Manufacturing/Engineering or Pharmaceutical/Life Sciences sectors.
Have a minimum 12 months trading history.

Please note spaces are limited and securing a place on the Supply Chain Accelerator Programme is a competitive process, which includes an online interview.

Applicants must demonstrate that they have a product or service with a high likelihood of success in the cross-border market and the operational capacity and ambition to scale. Only those applicants that can clearly demonstrate their capacity for growth and readiness to engage with larger buyers will advance to the online interview stage of the selection process.

Meeting the eligibility criteria does not guarantee acceptance into the programme.

Ineligible Sectors

Businesses involved in the following sectors are generally not considered eligible for Trade support: Wholesale, retail, distribution, tourism, hospitality, primary agriculture, personal services and professional business services (professional business services are not excluded from Go-2-Tender).

Applications from the sectors above may be considered if the business has developed a unique product, system or process that provides additional value to the core business activity.

Businesses involved in practices associated with gambling, health risks or immoral activity or any other activity that may be negatively perceived and bring the reputation of InterTradeIreland into disrepute will not be supported.

Please Note: The funding for this programme is provided under the European Commission Regulation on De Minimis Aid or if applicable in accordance with Minimal Financial Assistance as detailed in the UK Subsidy Control Bill. The business must provide InterTradeIreland with details of all other De Minimis aid received in the last 3 years and if applicable the amounts of any subsidies received under Article 364(4) Minimal Financial Assistance of the subsidy control chapter of the TCA in the current and last 2 fiscal years. It should be noted that a false declaration by a business resulting in the De Minimis threshold of €300,000 being exceeded (or £315,000 in the case of Minimal Financial Assistance) could later give rise to the aid being recovered with interest. Please note, reduced De Minimis thresholds are in place for certain sectors. Companies are responsible for checking the De Minimis threshold for their sector and ensuring same is not exceeded.

Eligibility Criteria

Are You Eligible?

Ineligible Sectors

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