Sandfire delivers and manages research and development programs in Australia for companies bringing technology to market here. We act as the Australian R&D vehicle and project manager, standing up the entity, structuring the experimental program, mobilising trials and contractors, and maintaining audit-ready records. Project management is kept separate from R&D tax advisory and lodgement.
The engagements below are de-identified. We describe the sector and our role, not the client.
Every engagement draws on the same capabilities. We size them to the program and keep project management separate from advisory and lodgement.
Stand up the Australian entity, with governance and contracting infrastructure in place.
Translate the product roadmap into a structured experimental program aligned to the statutory R&D definitions.
On-the-ground project management and coordination of trial execution.
Contractors, equipment and trial partners, organised and under agreement.
Contemporaneous record-keeping and evidence frameworks, kept audit-ready.
Project management kept distinct from R&D tax advisory and lodgement.
Three de-identified engagements. Select one to see the sector and the role we played.
A venture adapting an internationally proven detection platform to Australian field conditions, building a compliant R&D program from incorporation.
A heavy-vehicle engineering business developing a drivetrain efficiency system for field trial in Western Australia.
An industrial processing group running two parallel R&D programs.
If you are bringing technology to market in Australia and need the R&D program delivered and managed properly, we should talk.