 Those eligible to apply are restricted to universities and other higher education institutions specified in Table A of the Higher Education Support Act 2003, Bond University and the University of Notre Dame Australia.In 2002, as part of the SII funding, the Minister committed $250,000 to two committees, the "Higher Education Information Infrastructure Implementation Steering Committee" (HEIIAC) and "Higher Education Bandwidth Advisory Committee" (HEBAC).These committees were to formulae further broad projects to be considered for SII funding in the following year.