SURAT BASIN NEWS: GeoExchange, tee off at our Golf Day, member services and Government grants ahead

For your procurement team:

Congratulations to member GeoExchange for recent wins in the Health sector. You may remember our Queens Wharf event last year, with Probuild recently awarded site establishment work. And in rail infrastructure, BMD have had a recent win. Also, a number of significant renewable solar and wind projects were showcased in Dalby back in November and are set for commencement. If of interest, RCR Tomlinson have been announced as preferred contractor for the Oakey Solar project.

It’s not all work !! TSBE’s Annual Golf Day for members 24 February 

Again we have had wonderful support from significant members for sponsorship of the Golf day. Platinum Sponsor is Southern Cross Austereo who will lead the way. Tony and the crew from Apricity Finance are Gold Sponsors. The drinks cart belongs to new bronze members J&P Richardson.

If you would like to jump in and nominate a team of 4 players for the day, contact Erin to find out costs and availability.

For members:

TSBE’s annual member survey is just about to land in your email. Please take 5 minutes to answer the questions and provide feedback to the team, as we plan the next 12 months with you.

For business owners:

For 2017 a large number of Government grants have been released for the business sector. Most focus is around innovation, commercialisation, export. IT and business development. The grants are competitive and by application, and for amounts $10k to $250k. Most require co-funding of the grant amount. For a list of grants please email me for information.

Help us help you

At TSBE, we are currently undergoing trials of a new IT marketplace portal to exchange information between members.  We are looking for 10 members who could spare 3 hours to upload their information onto the system and test it with others. Please contact me if you are interested to participate.