Indigenous firm IPS Management Consultants is the big winner from the latest round of state government contracts to provide small business advisory services across WA.
Accounting firm RSM and Bunbury-based consultancy IPS have won the lion's share of work under a new round of state government contracts to deliver the Business Local support program across regional Western Australia.
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Helping small business is turning into a bigger business for a handful of service providers selected to run the state government's SME advisory network, which is about to go through a large and, in places, contentious restructure.
NOT-for-profit business advisory group Business Foundations has been selected to run the Innovation Centre WA, which is designed to assist the commercial potential of small to medium enterprises.&n
Not-for-profit business advisory group, Business Foundations, headed by Phil Kemp, has been appointed to operate the Innovation Centre WA at Bentley's Technology Park.
