Quality Systems Toolbox receives COMET grant

We're very pleased to announce that Quality Systems Toolbox was one of two Queensland based businesses awarded a Federal Government COMET grant (Commercialising Emerging Technologies).

The latest round of Commercialising Emerging Technologies (COMET) grants has been announced by Senator Kim Carr, Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research. The grants total $774,400 in national funding to help bring 11 innovative Australian projects to market.

Quality Systems Toolbox^TM, a web based ISO 9001 Toolbox for SMEs, was one of two winners based in Queensland.

Quality Systems Network company director Ian Clark said a well functioning quality management system meant that a business can consistently deliver the product or service they promise. “That is important to potential customers and, for larger contracts, supplier certification to ISO 9001 is often mandatory,” he said.

“ISO9001 is often a requirement to service government or larger company contracts, hence there are over 9,000 Australian certified ISO9001 companies. We find that many small to medium enterprises (SMEs) struggle to meet the requirements of the standard with traditionally paper‐based systems, often resulting in poor maintenance and difficult audits. Quality Systems Toolbox makes the process much easier to manage, saving companies time in management, the platform more accessible to employees and audits far easier to pass.”

“We’ve been working with the Innovation Centre Sunshine Coast in their business Incubator program to access expertise we don’t have in‐house. The COMET grant will help us engage other specialist providers to assist in market research and marketing, while executing on the strategic business planning work done with the Innovation Centre to take Quality Systems Toolbox to a wider market.”

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