Australian Government Contracts Ending Soon (AusTender)

Australian Government contracts that end in the next 1 to 730 days, so you can see the work likely to come back to market: expiring contracts and early tender leads, listed before any new tender is advertised.

What you get

• One row per contract, from the official AusTender contract notices feed.
• What the contract is for: its title, description and UNSPSC category code.
• Who it is with: the government buyer and the supplier that won it, with ABNs.
• The published value in Australian dollars.
• Start date, end date and the whole days left until the contract ends.
• The supplier's state, postcode and suburb.
• Fields a notice does not publish are simply missing from that row, not blank.

Who uses it

• Bid writers and tender consultants — a lead list of contracts coming up for renewal, sorted by how soon they end.
• Business development teams that sell to government — see where an incumbent's term is finishing and a procurement is likely.
• Contract managers — track when existing agreements expire.
• Procurement researchers and analysts — see who buys what, from whom, and for how much.

How to use it

1. Set the inputs: how far ahead to look, keywords, a minimum value, supplier states, UNSPSC category prefixes or a buyer name.
2. Run it once, or save it as a task and schedule a daily or weekly run, so new end dates arrive without you doing anything.
3. Take the results from the dataset tab as CSV, Excel or JSON, or read them through the Apify API into Google Sheets, Airtable, Zapier, Make or your own tools.

Input fields

Field	Default	What it does
daysAhead	90	End dates between today and today plus this many days (1–730).
keywords	none	Title or description contains one of these words, case-insensitive. Leave empty for every contract.
minValueAud	0	Published value at or above this many Australian dollars. Contracts with no published value are left out when this is set. 0 means no minimum.
states	none	Supplier is in one of these states or territories (ACT, NSW, NT, QLD, SA, TAS, VIC, WA). Leave empty for all of them.
unspscPrefixes	none	Category code starts with one of these UNSPSC prefixes, e.g. "43" for information technology. Leave empty for all categories.
buyerContains	none	Buyer name contains this text, case-insensitive, e.g. "Department of Defence". Leave empty for all buyers.
maxResults	1000	Stop after this many contracts (1–10000). Each one is charged as one result.
failIfEmpty	off	For monitoring: mark the run as failed when nothing is found. Leave off for normal use.

Output example

One row from a local run on 2026-09-26 (daysAhead set to 7):

{
  "id": "CN4279064",
  "title": "Graphic design and illustrative services",
  "description": "Graphic design and illustrative services",
  "buyerName": "Attorney-General's Department",
  "buyerAbn": "92661124436",
  "supplierName": "Think in Colour Pty Ltd",
  "supplierAbn": "32637562282",
  "valueAud": 35530,
  "published": "2026-09-25T01:57:08Z",
  "startDate": "2026-09-06T14:00:00Z",
  "endDate": "2026-09-29T14:00:00Z",
  "daysUntilEnd": 3,
  "state": "VIC",
  "postcode": "3071",
  "locality": "Thornbury",
  "categories": "82140000",
  "source": "austender",
  "licence": "Contains AusTender data, Department of Finance, licensed under CC BY 3.0 AU"
}

Fields a contract does not publish are simply missing. Results download as CSV, Excel or JSON from the dataset tab.

Pricing

You pay per result: one contract is one result, charged when its row is written. Rows you never receive are not charged for, and the run stops by itself if it reaches the maximum cost per run set on the run.

FAQ

How fresh is the data? Every run fetches the official AusTender feed live, so a run shows the contracts the feed holds at that moment. AusTender publishes on business days, so a run on a weekend or public holiday shows the same notices as the working day before. Schedule a daily run for a steady flow.

How much does a run cost? You pay only for the rows you receive: one contract, one charge. Set a maximum cost per run and the run stops by itself when it is reached; rows that are never returned are never charged for.

Can I narrow it to the contracts I care about? Yes. Combine keywords, a minimum value, supplier states, UNSPSC category prefixes and a buyer name in the same run — for example, information technology contracts (prefix "43") worth at least $100,000 with a Defence buyer.

Is this official data? Yes. It is the public AusTender OCDS API published by the Department of Finance, used under CC BY 3.0 AU, and every row carries the attribution line.

Does a contract ending mean a tender is coming? Sometimes. An ending contract is a likely re-tender, but the agency can extend it or buy the same thing elsewhere. Treat the list as early tender leads, not a forecast.

Can I get these contracts by email instead? Yes — Tender Alerts emails the same official AusTender data, daily or weekly, so you do not need to run anything.

Data source and licence

The public AusTender OCDS API, Department of Finance, https://api.tenders.gov.au/ocds/findByDates/contractEnd/{from}/{to}. Licence text, copied from the source and kept on every row:

Contains AusTender data, Department of Finance, licensed under CC BY 3.0 AU

CC BY 3.0 AU requires you to credit the Department of Finance.

Privacy

Some AusTender suppliers are sole traders. When a supplier name looks like a person's name (for example "SMITH, Jane" or "Jane Smith"), the row shows "Individual (sole trader)" instead and drops that person's ABN, suburb and postcode, keeping only the state. Company names (anything with a company word such as Pty Ltd) are kept as published.

Limitations

A contract ending is a likely re-tender, not a promise that one is coming. Notices with no published value, supplier address or category have those fields missing. End dates come from the notice and are sometimes approximate. daysUntilEnd counts whole UTC days from the run date, so a contract ending today is 0. When the list is longer than maxResults, the run stops at the limit and the rest are neither returned nor charged for.