Supply Chain Stability and Adaptability Program – Food Security and Supply Chain Fund │ Agricultural Adaptation Council (AAC):

Agri-Food Supply Chain Resiliency Analysis Stream:

• Cost of third-party service providers for consulting and technical assistance including
  market research and feasibility studies, or to conduct communications, translation, or
  other services for the project.

Agri-Food Supply Chain Infrastructure Investment Stream

•  Capital improvements to expand capacity (including expansion and modifications to
  existing buildings and/or mobile facilities and/or construction of new buildings at existing
  or newly acquired sites and/or mobile facilities), for the purpose of processing,
  aggregating, storing and value-adding Ontario agricultural products;
• Upgrades to utilities (including water, electric, heat, refrigeration, freezing, and waste
  facilities);
• Livestock intake and storage equipment;
• Growing, processing, and manufacturing and storage equipment and construction;
• Packaging and handling equipment (including sealing, bagging, boxing, labeling, conveying, and product moving equipment);
• Additional warehouse equipment (including storage and drying/curing racks);
• Purchase of waste treatment/management equipment (including tanks, blowers, separators, dryers, digesters, and equipment that uses waste to produce energy, fuel, or industrial products);
• Facility reconfiguration (including contract labor and materials for changes necessary to meet social distancing guidelines);
• Technology that allows increased capacity (to meet unanticipated demand) or business resilience (including software and hardware related to business functions, robotics, logistics, inventory management, plant production controls, temperature monitoring controls);
• Consulting and technical assistance, including engineering and construction planning, land use planning, facility design and configuration planning, and other services that directly supports the implementation of the project;
• Leasehold improvements to rented buildings or facilities;
• Cost of purchase of goods including supplies, and shipping costs to deliver same;
• The following are considered eligible costs, but will be assessed for eligibility by AAC based on a reasonable rationale that the cost will be necessary to support the success of the Applicant’s project:
• Equipment leases and rentals, including principal costs (less any fees, interest, or charges);
• Costs to commission new equipment or to modify/relocate existing equipment (infrastructure and commissioning); and,
• Other costs that are, in the AAC’s sole and absolute discretion, direct, incremental and necessary for the successful completion of the Applicant’s project.