# Changelog of Australian Government Tenders Scraper — AusTender & States (`he_work/au-gov-tenders-scraper`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/he_work/au-gov-tenders-scraper/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/he_work/au-gov-tenders-scraper.md

## Changelog

### 1.4 (5 November 2026): every open tender

- **QTenders added:** the Queensland Government's main tender directory (all departments, hospitals, universities and GOCs), with categories, regions and full descriptions. QLD coverage goes from ~20 to 100+ open tenders.
- **All pages mode:** set `maxPages` to `0` to collect every open tender each portal lists (now the form default).
- **NT:** all pages are read (it only saw the first 5 tenders before).
- **No double-counting:** a tender listed on several portals (e.g. QTenders and VendorPanel) appears once, as the most complete record, with `also_listed_on` naming the other portals.

### 1.3 (5 November 2026): major upgrade

More tenders, cleaner data, and clear reporting on every run.

**More coverage**

- **NSW fixed:** buy.nsw.gov.au is read directly (it was timing out and returning nothing).
- **VIC fixed:** moved to the new Buying for Victoria portal (tenders.vic.gov.au); the old site no longer exists.
- **ACT and Local Buy fixed**, and the **NT** parser rebuilt (it used to split one tender into several rows).
- 12 sources now return tenders on a typical all-states run, up from 7.

**Better data**

- New **`state`** field on every tender (NSW, VIC, QLD, WA, TAS, NT, ACT, Commonwealth or National).
- **Keywords now filter every source**; before, only AusTender was filtered.
- **Open tenders only:** anything already closed, and records without a link, are dropped.
- Aggregator results (VendorPanel) are limited to the states you choose.
- Clean IDs, agencies, categories and ISO dates for VIC and ACT.

**Clear reporting**

- Every run writes a per-source report to the key-value store `OUTPUT` record: which portals answered, how many tenders each returned, and why any were unavailable.
- The run status line names any source that couldn't be reached.
- Run summaries are no longer mixed into your dataset, so you only get (and pay for) tenders.

**Faster and lighter**

- Runs use 1 GB of memory by default (was 4 GB) and finish in about 2 minutes for all states.

**Notes**

- **SA:** tenders.sa.gov.au now requires a supplier login to search, so SA is reported as unavailable instead of failing silently.
- **Tenders.Net** is now opt-in (`includeTendersNet`), because its public list is mostly title-only tenders closing within days.

**Pricing:** from 19 November 2026 the price is $2.00 per 1,000 tenders plus $0.005 per run, in line with comparable tender actors.

### 1.2 (May 2026)

- Initial public release: AusTender plus state, council and aggregator sources.