AusTender Contract Awards Scraper (Australia)

This Actor collects Australian Government contract awards (contract notices and their amendments) from AusTender's public OCDS API as clean, flat records. Each record has the agency, supplier and ABN, contract value, signing and contract dates, UNSPSC codes and the procurement method, including limited-tender reasons and exemptions. It needs no login, never touches open tender documents (ATMs), removes contact details and charges $0.003 per award.

By Civitab, independent public-data tools. Apify Store ID: civitab/austender-contract-awards.

What you get

Australian Government agencies must publish every contract worth AUD 10,000 or more on AusTender within 42 days. This Actor reads those contract notices (CNs) through the official OCDS API and returns one row per notice or amendment:

• agency name, ABN, branch and division
• supplier name, ABN, suburb, state, postcode and country
• contract value and currency, publish date, start and end dates
• UNSPSC codes, procurement method (open, limited, prequalified), limited-tender condition or exemption
• CN ID, amendment IDs, OCDS ids and the API address of the notice
• source, the AusTender attribution notice, licence name and licence URL on every item

Typical uses: competitor and incumbent tracking, recompete pipelines (contracts ending soon), supplier due diligence, journalism and spend analysis. Turn on the rollup report to also get the top suppliers and agencies by value for the run.

Awards only. Approach to Market (ATM) material (open tenders) is copyright and excluded by the AusTender terms, so this Actor never requests it. Contact officer names, e-mails and phone numbers are removed.

Input example

Defence IT contracts over AUD 100,000 published in the last 14 days, with a rollup:

{
  "daysBack": 14,
  "agencies": ["Defence"],
  "unspscPrefixes": ["43", "81"],
  "minValue": 100000,
  "rollupReport": true,
  "maxItems": 500
}

Output example

One real item from a live run on 22 Oct 2026:

{
  "cnId": "CN4284335",
  "releaseType": "contract",
  "amendmentIds": [],
  "description": "Building Works",
  "agencyReference": "4600094961",
  "agencyName": "Department of Defence",
  "agencyAbn": "62950639680",
  "agencyBranch": "SEG - Service Delivery Division",
  "agencyDivision": "SEG",
  "supplierName": "DURATEC AUSTRALIA",
  "supplierAbn": "94141614075",
  "supplierLocality": "WANGARA",
  "supplierRegion": "WA",
  "supplierPostcode": "6065",
  "supplierCountry": "AUSTRALIA",
  "value": 1455013.59,
  "currency": "AUD",
  "publishedDate": "2026-10-23T00:56:56Z",
  "dateSigned": "2026-10-23T00:56:56Z",
  "startDate": "2026-10-19T13:00:00Z",
  "endDate": "2028-06-25T14:00:00Z",
  "unspscCodes": [
    "72100000"
  ],
  "procurementMethod": "open",
  "procurementMethodDetails": "Open tender",
  "limitedTenderExempt": null,
  "limitedTenderReason": null,
  "exemption": null,
  "ocid": "prod-8d145cc19fbc4017b378bfdde8aa5151",
  "releaseId": "prod-8d145cc19fbc4017b378bfdde8aa5151-8a3003bc46073f61a3dd2ef19341fb4b",
  "apiUrl": "https://api.tenders.gov.au/ocds/findById/CN4284335",
  "source": "AusTender OCDS API (Department of Finance), contract notices; modified: contact details removed, normalized",
  "attribution": "AusTender materials are released by the Department of Finance. AusTender materials are subject to change and should be verified on the AusTender website to ensure the information is up to date and correct: www.tenders.gov.au.",
  "license": "Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia (CC BY 3.0 AU)",
  "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-23T03:18:19Z"
}

Fields

Field	Type	Meaning
cnId, releaseType, amendmentIds	string, string, array	Contract notice ID; contract or amendment
agencyName, agencyAbn, agencyBranch, agencyDivision	string	Buying agency and unit
supplierName, supplierAbn, supplierLocality, supplierRegion, supplierPostcode, supplierCountry	string	Supplier
value, currency	number, string	Contract value (after amendment for amendment rows)
publishedDate, dateSigned, startDate, endDate	string	UTC ISO 8601
unspscCodes	array	UNSPSC classification
procurementMethod, procurementMethodDetails, limitedTenderExempt, limitedTenderReason, exemption	string, boolean	How the contract was procured
ocid, releaseId, apiUrl	string	OCDS identifiers
source, attribution, license, licenseUrl, scrapedAt	string	Provenance on every item

Pricing (pay per event)

• $0.003 per award (contract notice or amendment), so $3 per 1,000.
• $0.05 rollup report, optional, at most once per run, only when Rollup report is on.
• The default run (last 3 days, 50 awards) costs $0.15. All awards for a week are about 900 to 1,000 rows, roughly $3. A daily monitor for one agency usually costs a few cents.
• Set Max cost per run in Console; the Actor stops cleanly at that limit and you only pay for items saved.

Schedule and alerts

Turn on Only new awards, set your agencies, suppliers or UNSPSC codes, and schedule the Actor daily in Console; each run returns only awards you have not received. Connect it to e-mail, Slack, Google Sheets or a webhook with Apify integrations. AI agents can call it through the Apify MCP server as civitab/austender-contract-awards.

Input reference

Input	Default	Notes
daysBack	3	Window ending today (or at dateTo), up to 366 days
dateFrom, dateTo	empty	Exact window in UTC; date-only end is inclusive
dateField	contractPublished	Or contractLastModified, contractStart
agencies, suppliers	all	Name parts; suppliers also accept exact ABNs
keywords	none	Description or agency reference
unspscPrefixes	all	e.g. 43 (IT hardware), 8111 (IT services)
minValue, maxValue	none	AUD
procurementMethods	all	open, limited, selective
includeAmendments	true	Amendment notices as separate rows
maxItems	50	One award per event
onlyNew	false	Monitor mode with memory per filter set
rollupReport	false	Top suppliers and agencies in the ROLLUP record
requestDelaySecs	1	1 to 10 seconds between API requests

Source and license (robots.txt / terms checked 22 Oct 2026)

• Source: AusTender OCDS API published by the Australian Government Department of Finance, endpoint "find by dates / contract published", with cursor paging. No login, no key.
• Licence: the AusTender Terms of Use, section 5.1, license AusTender materials under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia (CC BY 3.0 AU), except the Commonwealth Coat of Arms and ATM material; every API response also names this licence. Each item carries the licence name and the licence URL as data.
• Excluded: section 5.4 says ATM materials are copyright and may not be reproduced or commercialised without written approval, so open tenders are out of scope. No coat of arms or logos are used.
• Attribution (section 6.1, required, verbatim; also in every item's attribution field):

AusTender materials are released by the Department of Finance. AusTender materials are subject to change and should be verified on the AusTender website to ensure the information is up to date and correct: www.tenders.gov.au.

• robots.txt: the API host has no robots.txt (the address returns an API-gateway "missing authentication token" message). The main AusTender website's robots.txt disallows its search, report and list pages; this Actor does not visit the website at all, only the API. Requests are throttled to at least 1 second apart.
• Changes made: contact details removed, fields flattened and normalized. Not affiliated with or endorsed by the Department of Finance.

FAQ and disclaimer

Why are there no open tenders? The AusTender terms do not allow reuse of ATM material. This Actor is for awarded contracts.

Why is a value different from the original notice? Amendment rows show the value after the amendment; look for the same CN ID with releaseType contract for the original.

How far back does it go? The API covers contract notices from 2013. Use dateFrom/dateTo for history (up to 366 days per run).

Data is provided as published, without warranty; verify important details on AusTender.

Reliability and test results (22 Oct 2026)

• Default input (last 3 days, 50 awards): 50 awards in 5 s, 1 request, 100% success.
• Last 7 days, no cap: 943 awards, 11 of 11 pages successful (100%) in 18 s.
• Simulated pay-per-event run (Defence, 30 awards, rollup on): charged 30 awards plus 1 rollup, $0.14 total.
• 45 offline tests (parsing, privacy, filters, paging, retries, charging, monitor memory, rollup).