It’s not easy being a big SIL provider

SIL provider performance chart

It’s been a tough year for major providers. Unfortunately, they’re on the wrong end of a confluence of impacts. This means that transformation efforts are complicated because, in most cases, nearly all business functions are impacted by the NDIS cost model.

Did the largest SIL providers underperform the market?

The largest SIL providers have a considerable impact on the sector. This is because most people in the sector have been exposed to their branding, and it is assumed their products are refined and well received. However, a new data set from the NDIS reveals that the largest SIL providers have considerably underperformed the rest of the SIL market. Below are the growth rates for Core – Daily Activities funding for SIL participants only:

Which providers did well in the NDIS in 2019/2020?

It surprises me that it has taken this long for someone to compare the performance of some of Australia’s largest NDIS providers. There is so much to learn from the different approaches to growth, sustainability and service. We went ahead and put it together (note: we extracted or extrapolated NDIS revenue only):