SMEs
Australian Defence Industry Portal: Connecting Businesses to Defence Industry Opportunities
The Australian Defence Industry Portal (AusDIP) is helping businesses connect with defence industry opportunities by improving visibility across the national defence ecosystem. As projects grow in complexity, organisations need clearer insight into where capabilities exist and how they can collaborate across the supply chain. This article explores how AusDIP helps businesses supply and source people, products and materials, gain industry insights, and engage more effectively with opportunities across Australia’s defence industry.
Part 2: Local participation targets are failing – tender overload is breaking local content procurement
Part 2 of our 4-part 2026 supply chain series looks at why tender overload is breaking local participation outcomes. When local content procurement relies on wide-open tenders and filters too late, buyers get buried in evaluation and suppliers waste time chasing poor-fit work. This article explains how pre-qualification and capability-based filtering can reduce noise, speed decisions, and make outcomes clearer for suppliers.
South Australia labour hire licensing changes: what the expanded scope means for your business
South Australia is significantly expanding the reach of its labour hire licensing scheme, and these South Australia labour hire licensing changes are set to reshape how businesses engage talent.
Why Making Suppliers Register for Every Project Is Slowing Industry Down
Across Australia, governments and major projects are working hard to improve supplier engagement, strengthen local industry capability, and streamline procurement. Yet despite these ambitions, an outdated sourcing practice persists in the industry, a manual supplier registration process that requires suppliers to re-register for every single project.
Indo Pacific International Maritime Conference 2025: What you need to know
Indo Pacific 2025 is more than a defence event. It reveals how supply chains are shifting. Find out what SMEs need to prepare for and why it matters.
Registrations open for Meet the Primes
This year at the Indo Pacific Conference 23, in conjunction with our friends at Hays and Michael Fairweather & Associates, BenchOn is running events to…
‘Meet the Defence Primes’ Program at Land Forces 22
BenchOn will be run a free ‘Meet the Primes’ program at LAND FORCES 2022, to link Australian small businesses with Defence Primes and kickstart mutually beneficial relationships to strengthen sovereign capability.