Core Focus Areas
Business Case Development
Business case development, feasibility studies and grant writing.
Water
Water and wastewater infrastructure, governance, efficiency and reuse.
Social & Environmental
Social and environmental sustainability assignments.
Granting you success
Grantus (Simon Coutts) is an independent contractor with 20 years’ experience working across operational, technical, corporate and project management fields. Available on short notice, for short term project or organisational assignments, I can help get things moving.
Featured Articles
The difference between a $10,000 funding submission and $1,000,000 business case
It doesn’t matter if you are asking for a little or a lot. The approach successful business case…
Buyers and suppliers guide to Victoria’s Social Procurement Framework
A first for Australia, this is the first of five articles celebrating social and environmental advances for Victoria. …
Can the Victorian Government buy their way out of social and environmental problems?
In an Australians first, the Victorian Government has laid down the gauntlet in a fresh attempt to solve…
Supply to Government? Price is not everything
Suppliers of goods and services to Victorian Government agencies need to think more than just price in their…
A social enterprise’s guide to tenders, social procurement, scalability and financial sustainability
This is an incredible time for Victoria. Victoria’s social procurement framework is groundbreaking for Australia and the world….
Five qualities a Risk Manager and Runner share
No one cares about either. The only people interested in running are runners. The only people interested in…
Commuter fatigue – inevitable or manageable?
How do we rebuild Australia’s transport infrastructure without totally pissing off commuters? Victoria’s Big Build is only getting…