Feasibility Studies in Qatar
A feasibility study in Qatar is the check you run before money changes hands. For a café planned in a new Lusail office tower, it would ask who in the building would buy, what the fit-out and rent would cost, and how many months pass before takings cover the bills. Qatar Development Bank asks for one with direct financing applications.
Studies and funding at a glance
- A feasibility study, with QDB direct financing applications
- Study needed
- The ownership QDB direct financing asks for
- Qatari owned
- How the Startup Qatar Investment Program releases funds
- Milestones
- Income tax on the foreign partners’ share of profit
- 10%
From Qatar Development Bank, Startup Qatar and the General Tax Authority, listed at the foot of the page. No programme guarantees funding.
When you need a study
Before you invest
Your own savings, on an idea nobody has tested yet.
When a lender asks
QDB wants a feasibility study with each direct financing application.
When you add an activity
A trading company opening a workshop, say, or a second branch.
| You need to know | Choose |
|---|---|
| Whether there is demand, and who already serves it | Market research |
| Whether to go ahead, change the plan or stop | Feasibility study |
| How to present the project to a bank, investor or programme | Business plan |
What we prepare as a feasibility study company in Qatar
As a feasibility study company in Qatar, we do the research and the writing. The decision to invest is yours.
Market research
Footfall, rival shops and today’s prices in the area you have in mind.
Feasibility study
Four angles on the idea and a plain answer at the end.
Financial model
Fit-out, rent, wages and sales, month by month, until break-even.
Business plan
What a bank or investor reads: team, milestones, the amount asked.
Funding files
The study and plan in the shape a bank or programme asks for.
Licensing check
Your activity’s rules, read at the official source.
Market research
Every study leans on market research, meaning who would pay, who serves them today and what they are charged. Some clients want only that part, and it can be ordered on its own.
Feasibility study
We look at the idea from four sides. The report ends with one of three answers: go ahead, change the plan, or stop.
Market
How many people would buy, from whom they buy now, and at what price.
Operations
Premises, equipment, staff and suppliers.
Licensing
Which route, which activity name, which approvals.
Money
Opening costs, running costs and the month it pays back.
What a lender checks before reading the numbers
QDB reads the paperwork before the spreadsheet.
QDB direct financing
The project is owned by a Qatari citizen, the feasibility study is filed alongside, and the sector is one the bank supports. Its head office is in Qatar and its papers are in order under the commercial companies law.
QDB Feasibility Study Assessment
The point, in QDB’s own word, is to make the study bankable. QDB sets studies and business plans that clients hand in against its own scope of work and minimum requirements, and returns a quality report with comments.
Startup Qatar Investment Program
It pays in tranches, one for each milestone met. A study written with that money in mind says in which month each milestone falls.
Financial projections
The model runs from start-up costs through monthly costs and sales scenarios to cash flow, break-even and payback. Four Qatar figures go in before anything else.
- Minimum basic wage a month
- QAR 1,000
- Housing and food a month, if not provided
- QAR 500 + 300
- Least gratuity per year of service, due after one year
- 3 weeks
- Tax on the foreign share of profit; the Qatari and GCC share is exempt
- 10%
From the minimum wage decision, the Labour Law and the General Tax Authority. Every other assumption in the model is listed with its source.
Staff costs in the model, worked through
Take three workers on the minimum wage who get neither housing nor food from the employer. Leave these lines out and the study shows a profit that will not happen.
| Line | Amount |
|---|---|
| Basic wage, each worker | QAR 1,000 a month |
| Allowances, each worker | QAR 500 and QAR 300 a month |
| Each worker | QAR 1,800 a month |
| Three workers | QAR 5,400 a month, QAR 64,800 a year |
| Gratuity, on top | No less than three weeks’ wage for every year of service once a worker passes the first year |
Where a partner is foreign, income tax at 10% on that partner’s share of the profit goes in too; the Qatari and GCC share is exempt.
From study to business plan
Once the study says go, a business plan takes its findings and adds the team, the milestones and the funding request.
The plan is written for whoever will read it, whether that is a bank, an investor or QDB. We write to the reader’s own requirements; whether to fund stays with them.
Related services
- Business plansFor a bank, investor or programme
- Market researchDemand, competitors and prices
- Business consultingActivity, route and first-year advice
- Support to start a business in QatarOfficial programmes and incubators
- Activity approvals and special licencesThe rules your activity must meet
- Accounting and bookkeepingBooks once the business is running
Common questions about feasibility studies in Qatar
What is a feasibility study, in simple words?
It is the homework you do before you open. If you wanted to run a laundry beside a new compound in Al Wakrah, you would count the households, price the machines and the rent, look up the activity on the Single Window and work out how many months pass before takings cover costs. Then you decide.
How much does a feasibility study cost?
It depends on how much has to be found out first-hand. Desk research and one sales case for your own use is a small job; a customer survey and three scenarios for a bank is a large one. We agree the scope in writing and price it before work starts; there is no price list.
Is a feasibility study quantitative or qualitative?
Both, and they have to agree. Back to the laundry: if residents say they would come twice a week but the shop across the road is half empty at noon, something is wrong. In the model itself, every figure down to the price per shirt has its source noted next to it.
What do feasibility study companies in Qatar include in a study?
Ours has the four parts set out above: market, operations, licensing and money, with a recommendation at the end. Feasibility study companies in Qatar arrange their reports in different ways, so before you sign with any of them, us included, ask to see a contents page from an earlier study.
How long does a feasibility study take?
It depends on how much has to be found out first-hand. A study for your own use built on desk research moves faster than one with a customer survey for a bank, and a lot depends on how quickly your quotations and rent offer arrive. Once we have seen the idea, we give you a timeline in the written scope.
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Sources
Official sources for the facts on this page, last checked 19 Oct 2026.
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