ANZ Tender Monitor — AusTender & NZ GETS Alerts

Bid teams working both sides of the Tasman watch two portals by hand. This monitor watches them for you and emits only what is new since your last run:

• AusTender (tenders.gov.au) — Australian Government approaches to market (open opportunities) and contract notices (who won, for how much, for how long).
• NZ GETS (gets.govt.nz) — New Zealand tender opportunities from every publishing agency: ministries, councils, CCOs, DHBs, schools.

Filter by your keywords, your categories, your deal size. Schedule it hourly or daily and pipe the dataset into Slack, email, Sheets or your CRM with any Apify integration. The first run backfills the last 14 days (configurable); every run after that is a clean delta — no duplicates, deduplicated by the portals' own notice references.

Official public data only: AusTender's OCDS contract API plus both portals' public notice boards. No login, no scraped contact details.

Example output records

An open New Zealand tender:

{
  "source": "gets",
  "tenderId": "24350869",
  "title": "Duvauchelle Water Supply Treatment Plant",
  "buyer": "Christchurch City Council",
  "valueAUD": null,
  "supplier": null,
  "categories": ["47100000 - Water and wastewater treatment supply and disposal"],
  "publishedDate": "2026-06-22T16:30:00+12:00",
  "closeDate": "2026-09-01T12:00:00+12:00",
  "stage": "tender",
  "region": "Canterbury",
  "url": "https://www.gets.govt.nz/CCC/ExternalTenderDetails.htm?id=24350869",
  "detectedAt": "2026-08-31T11:05:12Z"
}

An Australian contract award — incumbent intelligence, with the winner and the contract value:

{
  "source": "austender",
  "tenderId": "CN4272937",
  "title": "BMAC Member",
  "buyer": "Bureau of Meteorology",
  "valueAUD": 154901.41,
  "supplier": "McBeath Pty Ltd atf Knuckey Family Trust",
  "categories": ["80100000"],
  "publishedDate": "2026-08-31T09:02:44Z",
  "closeDate": "2030-06-29T14:00:00Z",
  "stage": "award",
  "region": "ACT",
  "url": "https://www.tenders.gov.au/cn/search?KeywordTypeSearch=AllWord&Keyword=CN4272937",
  "detectedAt": "2026-08-31T10:20:12Z"
}

Reading the fields

Field	Notes
tenderId	The portal's own reference — AusTender ATM ID, AusTender CN number, or GETS RFx ID. Unique within its portal; source + tenderId is the dedupe key.
stage	tender = open opportunity. award = Australian contract notice (GETS publishes no award notices).
valueAUD	Only AusTender awards publish a value. Open tenders (AU or NZ) come through as null — that is the portals, not the monitor. Non-AUD amounts are dropped rather than converted.
supplier	The winning supplier on award records; null on open tenders.
categories	UNSPSC code - name strings, e.g. "86000000 - Education and Training Services". AusTender awards carry the bare code; if an AusTender detail page cannot be read the category falls back to the name alone.
closeDate	Submission deadline for tenders; contract end date for awards. GETS timestamps carry the published NZ offset (+12:00); AusTender publishes no offset, so its ATM times are local (ACT).
publishedDate	When the portal published the notice. AusTender ATMs publish a date only, no time.
region	GETS: the delivery region(s), e.g. "Canterbury". AusTender ATM: the delivery locations. AusTender awards: the supplier's state (ACT, QLD, …) — the OCDS feed publishes no delivery region.
url	Link to the notice. AusTender contract notices have no public per-notice page, so the link is AusTender's contract search with the CN number pre-filled.

Input options

Field	Type	Default	What it does
sources	array	["austender","gets"]	Which portals to watch
keywords	array	[] (all)	Case-insensitive match against title, description and buyer name, e.g. ["road resurfacing","cyber security"]
categories	array	[] (all)	UNSPSC code prefix ("81", "43") or part of a category name ("construction")
minValueAUD / maxValueAUD	integer	—	Value band. Only AusTender awards publish a value, so any bound restricts the feed to awards
stages	array	["tender","award"]	tender = open opportunities (both countries), award = AU contract awards
sinceDays	integer	14	Backfill window on the first run; scan window on every run
maxItems	integer	500	Cap on new notices per run (cost control) — the rest emit next run
stateStoreName	string	anz-tender-monitor-state	Change it to reset the monitor and re-run the backfill

keywords and categories are combined with AND: a notice must match a keyword and a category when both are set.

Tip for the first run. Open tenders stay listed for months, so a notice published 60 days ago may still be accepting bids. sinceDays filters on the published date, so raise it (up to 90) on your first run to sweep in everything currently open, then leave it at the default for the daily delta.

Use cases

1. One bid pipeline for both countries —

   keywords: ["civil construction"]
   , both sources, scheduled every morning. Australian ATMs and New Zealand RFTs land in the same sheet with their deadlines attached, instead of two people checking two portals.
2. Who won, and when is it up again — stages: ["award"] plus minValueAUD: 250000. Every substantial Australian Government contract award, with the winning supplier and the contract end date, so you know the incumbent and the re-compete date before the market does.
3. Category radar for a specialist firm — categories: ["81"] (engineering and research services) or ["Software"], no keywords. Every new opportunity in your category across ANZ, including the councils and agencies you have never heard of.

Pricing events

Event	Price	When
actor-start	$0.005	Once per run
tender-detected	$0.015	Per NEW notice emitted

A daily schedule with keyword filters typically emits a handful of notices per run — you pay for signal, not for polling. Runs that find nothing new cost only the start fee.

Data sources, freshness & scale

Measured on a live sweep (31 Aug 2026): the AusTender ATM board carried 71 current opportunities, the GETS board 338, and AusTender published 1,098 contract notices in the preceding 7 days. AusTender's OCDS API is the official Department of Finance feed (CC BY 3.0 AU); both notice boards are the same public pages a buyer would read.

Keyword accuracy is checked against the portals' own search. On the same sweep, keywords: ["construction"] plus categories: ["construction"] returned exactly the 15 ATMs that AusTender's own keyword search returned for "construction" — no misses, no false positives.

If one portal has an outage the run degrades: it logs a warning, still delivers the other portal, and exits successfully. If every source is down the run fails loudly and leaves its state untouched, so nothing is silently skipped.

Maintenance promise: both portals' field layouts are checked on every run — missing fields log a named drift warning rather than crashing or silently emptying your feed — and re-verified with each release.

Changelog

• 0.1 (2026-08-31) — Initial release. AusTender ATMs, AusTender contract notices and NZ GETS in one delta feed; keyword, category, value and stage filters; 14-day backfill.