Allied Health Admin and ConsultingSupport Service Business of the Year
Support Service Business of the Year recognises a business that helps other businesses or clients operate more effectively through professional or operational support. It celebrates reliable delivery, measurable client improvements, strong relationships and systems that create practical value behind the scenes.
Choose this category when: Your strongest story is how your business improves the operations, efficiency or performance of clients and other businesses.
Is this your category?
A quick read on the businesses this title is written for.
Provides professional or operational support such as administration, consulting, logistics, marketing, finance, IT or HR.
Can demonstrate measurable improvements in client efficiency, performance or outcomes.
Builds strong, reliable client relationships and consistent delivery standards.
Adapts services and systems as client needs and markets evolve.
What judges need to see.
The five areas your answers are assessed against.
Foundation
Foundation: Support offer, target clients and the practical value the business creates.
Results
Results: Measurable improvements delivered for clients and the business's own commercial performance.
Decisions
Decisions: Systems, processes or service changes that improved efficiency, quality or outcomes.
Leadership
Leadership: Delivery standards, team or contractor capability and long-term client relationships.
Impact
Impact: The ongoing value created for client businesses and the future direction of the support model.
Evidence to start gathering
Start collecting these now so the writing is quick later.
Read the Evidence Pack guideBefore-and-after client efficiency or performance data.
Client retention and renewal rates.
Time, cost or resource savings delivered.
Client satisfaction data.
Case studies with specific business outcomes.
Service delivery or turnaround metrics.
Testimonials describing measurable results.
Evidence of systems or process improvements.
Entry details and eligibility
The format, the dates and the conditions that apply to this title.
- Assessment period
- 2024–27.
- Minimum business age
- 12 months.
- Written responses
- 5.
- Evidence Pack
- 5 pages.
1 January 2024 to 28 February 2027
Minimum 12 months in business as at 4 October 2026.
5 written responses, up to 400 words each.
One PDF, up to 5 pages and 10 MB.
Resources
Before you enter
Five short reads that answer almost everything. Each one opens the Entry Guide at the right place.
Evidence Pack guide
What counts as evidence, what does not, and how to lay the PDF out.
Full eligibility
The rules that apply to every title, including trading dates and locations.
How judging works
Who reads your entry, how it is scored and how finalists are chosen.
Build a strong entry
How to answer the five questions with specifics instead of adjectives.
Frequently asked questions
Costs, deadlines, multiple entries and everything else people ask first.
Category partner
Allied Health Admin and Consulting
Jenny Pither · Forster
Presenting Support Service Business of the Year
Presenting partners do not score, select or influence entrants. Judging is run independently.
RAYE Awards 2027
Support Service Business of the Year
Entries are written and submitted in the RAYE Awards portal, a separate system to RAYE Haus. Read the criteria, gather your evidence, then head across.