AusTender Contract Notices — Australian Government Contracts

Get Australian Government contracts from AusTender as clean rows: every contract notice (CN) that Commonwealth agencies publish for contracts worth AUD 10,000 or more — agency, description, UNSPSC category, value, contract period, procurement method and the supplier company with its ABN.

Data comes live from AusTender's official OCDS API (Department of Finance). No login, no API key, no browser. Shared fields use the same names as our UK (Find a Tender / Contracts Finder) and EU (TED) tender Actors — title, buyerName, procurementMethod, valueAmount, contractStart / contractEnd, awardedSuppliers, noticeUrl — so the datasets are easy to combine.

What you get

• One row per contract notice (optionally one per amendment): CN ID, description, agency reference, agency and its division/branch, UNSPSC code, procurement method (open / limited / prequalified tender), limited-tender exemption or condition, value in AUD (GST inclusive), contract start and end, publication date.
• Suppliers with ABN, city, postcode and state when the supplier is a company or a public body.
• Contracts coming up for renewal: search by contract end date (e.g. every IT contract ending in the next 90 days) or by start date, not only by publication date.
• Filters: keywords, agency, UNSPSC prefix, supplier name or ABN, supplier state, procurement method, value range, date window, amendments on/off.
• No personal data: contact officers' names, e-mails and phone numbers are never output; supplier names that may be private persons (sole traders, family trusts, partnerships) are withheld.

Quick start — verified input

IT contracts (UNSPSC segment 43) that end in the next 90 days:

{
  "dateField": "contractEnd",
  "daysAhead": 90,
  "unspscCodes": ["43"],
  "maxItems": 20
}

An empty input {} also works: the newest 20 contract notices published in the last 7 days.

Input

Field	Example	What it does
keywords	["software", "cyber security"]	Whole words or phrases in the description, agency reference, agency, division/branch and supplier name. Any keyword matches.
buyers	["Department of Defence", "CSIRO"]	Part of the agency's name.
unspscCodes	["43", "8012"]	UNSPSC codes or prefixes (2, 4, 6 or 8 digits): 43 = information technology, broadcasting and telecommunications; 8012 = legal services.
suppliers	["Leidos", "KPMG"]	Part of the supplier's name (shown names only).
supplierAbns	["51 002 260 602"]	Supplier ABNs (shown suppliers only).
procurementMethods	["open"]	open, limited, prequalified.
supplierStates	["VIC", "New South Wales"]	ACT, NSW, NT, QLD, SA, TAS, VIC, WA or Outside Australia.
valueMin / valueMax	100000 / 5000000	Contract value range in AUD (GST inclusive).
dateField	"contractEnd"	What the window searches: published (default), lastModified (new and amended notices), contractStart, contractEnd.
daysBack	7	For published / lastModified: the last N days up to today (Canberra time).
daysAhead	90	For contractStart / contractEnd: from today up to N days ahead.
dateFrom / dateTo	"2026-09-01"	Explicit window (at most 366 days; the API starts on 2013-01-01). DD/MM/YYYY, "1-Sep-2026", "-30d", "+180d" also work.
includeAmendments	true	Also output amendment notices (IDs like CN1234567-A1) as rows. Use with lastModified, contractStart or contractEnd.
maxItems	20	Maximum rows.
maxApiRequests	30	Hard request budget (one request returns up to 100 notices).

Common input mistakes

You wrote	Write instead	Why
"unspscCodes": ["IT"]	"unspscCodes": ["43"]	UNSPSC codes are digits; put words in keywords.
"dateField": "contractEnd", "daysBack": 90	"dateField": "contractEnd", "daysAhead": 90	Contract end dates are in the future: use daysAhead.
"dateField": "published", "includeAmendments": true	"dateField": "lastModified", "includeAmendments": true	The publication-date search returns new contract notices only.
"supplierStates": ["Newcastle"]	"supplierStates": ["NSW"]	States, not cities (only the state capitals are accepted as a shortcut, e.g. "Sydney" = NSW).
"supplierAbns": ["123 456 789"]	"supplierAbns": ["51 002 260 602"]	An ABN has 11 digits; a 9-digit ACN is not accepted.

Output example

{
  "id": "CN4282114",
  "cnId": "CN4282114",
  "amendmentId": null,
  "noticeType": "contract",
  "stage": "award",
  "status": "awarded",
  "isOpenForBids": false,
  "title": "Software Licence Subscription",
  "agencyReferenceId": "3000846128",
  "buyerName": "Department of Defence",
  "buyerAbn": "62950639680",
  "buyerDivision": "NAVY",
  "buyerBranch": "Navy Strategic Command",
  "mainUnspscCode": "43230000",
  "unspscCodes": ["43230000"],
  "procurementMethod": "limited",
  "procurementMethodDetails": "Limited tender",
  "limitedTenderExempt": false,
  "exemptionCode": null,
  "exemption": null,
  "limitedTenderReasonCode": "AD",
  "limitedTenderReason": "10.3.e. Additional deliveries by original supplier intended as replacement parts, extensions, or continuation for existing goods or services for compatibility.",
  "valueAmount": 536064.71,
  "valueCurrency": "AUD",
  "awardedValue": 536064.71,
  "awardedCurrency": "AUD",
  "tenderDeadline": null,
  "contractStart": "2026-09-28",
  "contractEnd": "2027-01-30",
  "awardDate": "2026-10-12",
  "publishedDate": "2026-10-12",
  "publishedAt": "2026-10-12T04:20:49Z",
  "supplierName": "NORTHROP GRUMMAN AUSTRALIA PTY LIMITED",
  "supplierAbn": "78156458981",
  "supplierNameWithheld": false,
  "supplierCity": "SYMONSTON",
  "supplierPostcode": "2609",
  "supplierState": "ACT",
  "supplierCountry": "Australia",
  "awardedSuppliers": ["NORTHROP GRUMMAN AUSTRALIA PTY LIMITED"],
  "suppliersWithheld": 0,
  "matchedKeywords": [],
  "ocid": "prod-7ef5699bf4454923ad44c29c14c7be6f",
  "releaseId": "prod-7ef5699bf4454923ad44c29c14c7be6f-555aeb1a9d7f39689229b9302ab6fd7d",
  "noticeUrl": "https://api.tenders.gov.au/ocds/findById/CN4282114",
  "source": "AusTender - Australian Government procurement information system (Department of Finance)",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.tenders.gov.au/",
  "license": "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. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia (CC BY 3.0 AU, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/). Contract notices from the AusTender OCDS API. Changed by this tool: selected fields only, values and dates normalised, contact details removed, names of possible private persons withheld. Unofficial tool, not affiliated with or endorsed by the Department of Finance or the Commonwealth of Australia.",
  "retrievedAt": "2026-10-12T19:39:44.456Z"
}

Main fields

Field	Meaning
id	Row key: the CN ID, or the amendment ID (CN1234567-A1) for an amendment row.
noticeType	contract (the original contract notice) or amendment.
title	The contract description written by the agency (contact details and personal names removed).
agencyReferenceId	The agency's own reference for the contract.
valueAmount	Contract value in AUD including GST, for the life of the contract. On an amendment row it is the value AusTender reports with that amendment.
contractStart / contractEnd	Contract period (Canberra calendar days). null when the agency gave no date.
publishedDate / publishedAt	When this notice was published (Canberra day / UTC time).
awardDate	The award (original publication) date of the contract.
exemption / limitedTenderReason	Why a limited tender was used (Commonwealth Procurement Rules Appendix A exemption / Division 2 condition).
supplierName / supplierAbn	Supplier company or public body and its ABN; null when withheld.
supplierNameWithheld	true when the supplier may be a private person (see below). State and country are still given.
stage, status, isOpenForBids, tenderDeadline	Kept for compatibility with our UK and EU tender datasets: a contract notice is always an award (tenderDeadline is always null).
noticeUrl	The official OCDS record of the notice on the AusTender API (JSON). To see the web page, search the CN ID on tenders.gov.au.

How it works

1. Splits your window into API queries (a month each for publication/modification dates, newest first; a week each for contract start/end dates, earliest first).
2. Reads each query page by page (100 notices per page) through AusTender's own pagination links.
3. Turns each notice into a row, applies your filters and stops as soon as it has maxItems rows.

Requests are sent one at a time, at least 2 seconds apart, within a hard request budget; Retry-After is honoured. Only the official API is used — never the AusTender website.

Empty results?

• Weekends and public holidays: agencies publish on working days. A one-day window on a Sunday is often empty.
• Too many filters together: a UNSPSC code plus a state plus a value range can match nothing in a short window. Widen daysBack / daysAhead first.
• Supplier filters only match suppliers whose names are shown; a withheld supplier never matches.
• Amendments only come with lastModified, contractStart or contractEnd plus includeAmendments.
• A run that matches nothing ends successfully with 0 rows and a warning in the log; you are not charged for rows.

Personal data (GDPR and the Australian Privacy Act)

AusTender contract notices can contain personal data: the agency's contact officer (name, e-mail, phone) and sometimes a private person who won a contract (consultants with an ABN, sole traders, family trusts). This Actor leaves it out:

• Contact officers' names, e-mail addresses, phone numbers and street addresses are never output.
• Supplier names are shown only when they carry an Australian company word (Pty Ltd, Limited, Inc, Corporation, No Liability, Co-operative), an unambiguous foreign company form (GmbH, LLC, PLC, Sdn Bhd, ...), a public-body word (University, Department, Council, Commission, ...), or belong to a short list of national professional-services firms (KPMG, Deloitte, EY, PwC, major law firms). Names with "trading as", "trustee", "family trust", a personal title, or no organisation evidence are withheld together with their ABN, city and postcode. Some real companies are withheld too; that is intended.
• Descriptions are scrubbed: e-mail addresses, phone numbers, URLs and "title + name" sequences (e.g. "Dr ...") are replaced, and a withheld supplier's name is removed from its row.

You remain responsible for how you process the data under the GDPR, the Australian Privacy Act 1988 and other laws that apply to you.

Source, licence and attribution

• Source: AusTender, the Australian Government procurement information system, Department of Finance — https://www.tenders.gov.au — through its official OCDS API (https://github.com/austender/austender-ocds-api).
• Licence: AusTender's terms of use state that, with the exception of the Commonwealth Coat of Arms, Approach to Market (ATM) material and where otherwise noted, all materials on AusTender are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia (CC BY 3.0 AU). Every API response carries the same licence.
• Attribution required by AusTender's terms of use (repeated in the license field of every row):
  • 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.
• This dataset is a restructured, partial copy (selected fields, normalised values and dates, personal data removed). Verify important details on AusTender.
• Open tenders (Approach to Market) are not included: AusTender's terms exclude ATM material from the open licence and do not allow it to be redistributed or commercialised without written approval.
• The Commonwealth Coat of Arms is not used.

Disclaimer

This is an unofficial tool. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Department of Finance, AusTender or the Commonwealth of Australia. It reads public data only through AusTender's public API. You are responsible for complying with AusTender's terms of use and the laws that apply to your use of the data.