Helping small and growing businesses win contracts and deliver them well.
Owners and senior managers of small and growing businesses
Certificate of completion and readiness profile
12 weeks
15 businesses
Live online workshops with one-to-one mentoring
AISCR Supplier Execution Readiness Instrument (SERI)
The Supplier Development Accelerator is a twelve-week programme for
small and growing businesses that want to compete for contracts with
governments, institutions and large companies, and then perform those
contracts successfully.
It is built on AISCR’s research into the supplier readiness gap: many
businesses can win work but are not yet ready to deliver it. Each business
starts with a diagnostic assessment and follows learning matched to its
gaps. Mentors then help it put an improvement plan into action
SERI readiness assessment and an improvement plan agreed with your mentor.
Targeted modules on buyers, bids, finance, contracts, capacity and compliance.
Re-assessment, a buyer-reviewed mock bid and a capability statement.
By the end of the programme, participants will be able to:
| Weeks | Phase | Content |
|---|---|---|
| 1–2 | Diagnose | SERI readiness assessment; individual readiness profile; improvement plan agreed with a mentor |
| 3 | Build: Know your buyer | How public and corporate buyers plan, procure and evaluate |
| 4 | Build: Winning bids | Reading tenders, compliance, pricing and writing to evaluation criteria |
| 5 | Build: Financial readiness | Cash flow, working capital, bonding, insurance and access to finance |
| 6 | Build: Contract management | Obligations, compliance, variations, reporting and disputes |
| 7 | Build: Capacity and quality | Delivery capacity, quality systems, subcontracting and teaming |
| 8 | Build: Digital and documentation | Registrations, e-procurement platforms and record keeping |
| 9 | Build: Sustainability and ESG | What buyers now ask about responsible business practice |
| 10–12 | Demonstrate | SERI re-assessment; mock bid review with a buyer; capability statement; cohort showcase |
Each business is paired with a mentor who meets the owner or a senior manager every two weeks to put the improvement plan into action and work through live opportunities.
Peer learning sessions let businesses share experience, partner on bids and build lasting supplier networks.
Corporations, public bodies and development partners can sponsor a cohort, either shared with up to three partners or as the exclusive sponsor, to strengthen their supplier base.
Download the 2027 Sponsorship Prospectus