Quality and Standards (Q&S) contribute positively to economic prosperity and growth. At the company and industry levels, Q&S are a strategic business tool that can impact the bottom-line, yield cost savings, and raise productivity and efficiency. Consequently, Q&S enhance enterprise competitiveness, and help build trust in Singapore products and services.

Q&S also support the pursuit of innovation in emerging areas such as sustainability and energy.

SPRING helps to build trust through Q&S by adopting four key strategies :

1. Enhancing the Q&S infrastructure;
2. Driving Q&S implementation;
3. Building Q&S resource; and
4. Facilitating market access

The building blocks in SPRING that form the national Q&S infrastructure are :

Standards
Accreditation
Business Excellence
Export Technical Assistance
Consumer Product Safety
Weights and Measures