July 2026, Acquisition International | 15 IQMS Australasia: Building Systems That Win Work ased in Adelaide, South Australia, IQMS Australasia has worked in the integrated management systems and compliance business for over 25 years. It works with organisations across Australia, spanning the mining and resources, oil and gas, engineering, and medical sectors, from owner-operators to established players in mining, defence, civil manufacturing, and beyond. IQMS Australasia is responsible for designing, building, certifying, and supporting systems across quality, safety, environment, risks, and assets, The system is built natively within the client’s Microsoft 365 and SharePoint, before the client’s teams are taught to utilise and own them themselves. This transforms the product from a single piece of software to be rented forever into an integrated system installed in their own licenses, belonging to them outright. “That changes entirely what it can do,” Greg explained. “Instead of policies gathering dust on a shelf, we build native dashboards and live reporting into SharePoint, so the owner can see in real time how they are tracking against the standard, where the gaps are, what’s due, and what’s done. It goes well past documentation and, because the data stays in their own environment, we can build to the level even defence work demands.” Much of IQMS Australasia’s work is with regional small businesses on the Upper Spencer Gulf. This is a region that Greg himself has spent significant time in and around, having served on the board of GMUSG, now called Tactic, for almost 20 years. He is incredibly passionate about the work undertaken on the Upper Spencer Gulf, sharing, “When you help a regional business meet a global standard, you are not just ticking a box. You are shoring up the whole town around it.” At IQMS Australasia, every installation is treated as its own project because it truly is the most important project to ever exist to the owner sitting across the table. The team believes that a two-person shop obtaining its first certification matters every bit as much as a largerscale job, and its operations have been shaped around this belief. Regardless of the project size or scope, each client completes their partnership with IQMS Australasia feeling that they are finally in control of their own compliance rather than drowning in it. Regardless of the significant strides IQMS Australasia has made in its field, the team believes that there is plenty of work to be done yet. Every small business in the country runs into a standard at some point in their operations, and most still find it more difficult and more expensive than it should be. For the team at IQMS Australasia, the job will remain the same: “To keep making it simpler, to keep making it cheaper, and to keep using the technology, AI, and live reporting on a business’s own Microsoft data, so they can catch problems early instead of cleaning up after them.” This unwavering determination to continue empowering organisations throughout Upper Spencer Gulf and beyond reinforces IQMS Australasia’s position as Australia’s Leading Management Systems Consultant 2026. “The heart of it stays the same,” Greg concluded. “Compliance should be within reach of the people who were always told it wasn’t. There are a lot of businesses out there, and that’s what keeps me hopeful about where this is headed.” He continued: “I really believe IQMS can be a genuine help to small businesses right across the country, and that’s the direction everything’s pointed at. The clearest sign of it right now is the rebate and grant programme we’re running – our way of getting behind small businesses and helping more of them reach a standard that once felt out of reach. There’s real appetite for it, and that tells me we are onto something that matters. “That’s what keeps me at it. The awards are lovely, but the legacy I care about is the businesses and the people we’ve helped get on their feet, and the young ones coming up behind us.” Contact: Greg Clothier Company: IQMS Australasia Pty Ltd Web Address: www.iqms.com.au Compliance should work for the business, not the other way around. This is a principle that drives the services delivered by IQMS Australasia, having dedicated more than two decades to building the management systems that get Australian organisations certified, audit-ready, and into the supply chains that matter. We heard more from Managing Director Greg Clothier below, as IQMS Australasia is named in the 2026 Global Excellence Awards. B
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