AusTender Scraper - Australian Government Contracts Feed

Get Australian Government contract notices from AusTender as clean, structured data: buying agency, supplier, value, UNSPSC category and contract dates. Filter by keyword, agency and minimum value, and get only new contracts on every scheduled run.

• Official source: the official AusTender OCDS API (CC BY 3.0 AU).
• No login, no browser, no personal data.
• Monitoring built in: turn on Only new since last run and schedule it for a daily alert feed.
• Export to JSON, CSV, Excel, HTML or straight into Google Sheets, Slack, Zapier, Make, n8n or your own code via the Apify API.

What can you use it for?

• Sales teams: find agencies that buy what you sell, and when their contracts end.
• Competitor tracking: see who wins which Australian Government contracts, and for how much.
• Government spend research: analyse spend by agency, supplier and category.

How to use it

1. Click Try for free (or Start). The input is pre-filled, so the first run works with one click and finishes in seconds.
2. Adjust the filters in the Input tab (see the table below).
3. Click Start and open the Output tab. The Overview view shows the key columns; All fields shows everything.
4. Download the results (JSON, CSV, Excel...) or connect them to your tools (see Scheduling and integrations).

Input

Field	Name	What it does
keywords	Keywords	Match any keyword in title, description, category or supplier name. Empty = all.
agencies	Agencies	Keep only buyers whose name contains any of these strings, e.g. 'Defence'.
daysBack	Days back	How many days back to look. Default 3. On scheduled runs with 'Only new since last run' on, a small window (1-3 days) is enough.
minValue	Minimum value (AUD)	Keep contracts at or above this value.
maxItems	Max results	Stop after this many results. You pay per result ($2 per 1,000), so this caps your cost: 50 results = $0.10.
onlyNew	Only new since last run	Skip records already returned by earlier runs of this Actor in your Apify account, so each run outputs only new ones. Turn on for scheduled daily alerts; leave off for a one-off full export.

Example input:

{
  "keywords": [],
  "daysBack": 3,
  "maxItems": 20,
  "onlyNew": true
}

Output

Each result is one record with these fields:

Field	Description
source	Portal the notice came from.
ocid	Open Contracting ID of the procurement process.
releaseId	ID of this specific OCDS release (notice version).
noticeType	OCDS release tags, e.g. tender, award, contract.
publishedAt	Publication date/time of the notice.
title	Notice title.
description	Notice description as published.
status	Tender/contract status, e.g. active, complete.
buyerName	Contracting authority (buyer organisation).
buyerLocality	Buyer's town or city.
buyerRegion	Buyer's region code.
buyerPostalCode	Buyer organisation's postcode.
buyerCountry	Buyer's country.
valueAmount	Tender or contract value.
valueCurrency	Currency of the value.
classificationScheme	e.g. CPV or UNSPSC.
classificationId	CPV / UNSPSC code of the main item.
classificationDescription	Text label of the classification code.
procurementMethod	open, selective, limited or direct.
mainCategory	goods, services or works.
deadline	Tender submission deadline, when given.
contractStart	Contract start date.
contractEnd	Contract end date.
suppliers	Awarded supplier organisations (award/contract notices).
noticeUrl	Link to the notice on the official portal.
contractNoticeId	AusTender contract notice ID (CN number).

Sample result (from a real run, long values shortened):

{
  "source": "austender",
  "ocid": "prod-514bc4e33ee64805b3b53190b78db5a4",
  "releaseId": "prod-514bc4e33ee64805b3b53190b78db5a4-7bfc24dd956a3c84b3e768cb5bc05fb3",
  "noticeType": "contract",
  "publishedAt": "2026-10-14T06:53:25Z",
  "title": "DigiCert Bundled Certificates",
  "description": "DigiCert Bundled Certificates\n ",
  "status": "active",
  "buyerName": "Australian Electoral Commission",
  "buyerLocality": null,
  "buyerRegion": null,
  "buyerPostalCode": null,
  "buyerCountry": null,
  "valueAmount": 249329.36,
  "valueCurrency": "AUD",
  "classificationScheme": "UNSPSC",
  "classificationId": "43200000",
  "classificationDescription": null,
  "procurementMethod": "open",
  "mainCategory": null,
  "deadline": null,
  "contractStart": "2026-10-10T13:00:00Z",
  "contractEnd": "2029-10-09T13:00:00Z",
  "suppliers": [
    "Amnesium Pty Ltd"
  ],
  "noticeUrl": "https://www.tenders.gov.au/Search/CnAdvancedSearch?Keyword=CN4282684",
  "contractNoticeId": "CN4282684"
}

Scheduling and integrations

• Daily alerts: in Apify Console, open Schedules, create a schedule (for example every day at 08:00) for this Actor with onlyNew: true. Each run then returns only records that are new since the previous run.
• Webhooks: add a webhook on Run succeeded to call your own endpoint, Slack or a workflow tool when new data is ready.
• Zapier, Make, n8n, Google Sheets, Slack, email: use Apify's ready-made integrations on the Actor's Integrations tab to push each run's dataset wherever you work.
• API: run it and get results in one call:

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/northbound-labs~austender-contracts-feed/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"keywords": [], "daysBack": 3, "maxItems": 20, "onlyNew": true}'

Or with the Apify Python client: ApifyClient(token).actor("northbound-labs/austender-contracts-feed").call(run_input={...}).

Pricing

This Actor uses pay-per-event pricing, so you pay only for what you get:

• $2.00 per 1,000 results ($0.002 per result).
• An Actor start event of $0.00005 per run at the default 512 MB memory.

You get	Cost
20 results (the pre-filled test run)	about $0.04
100 results	about $0.20
1,000 results	about $2.00
A daily schedule returning ~50 new results a day for 30 days	about $3.00 a month

Set Max results to cap the cost of any run. Apify's free plan includes monthly credit you can use to try it.

FAQ

Does it include open tenders (ATMs)? No. It returns published contract notices (CNs) from AusTender's official OCDS API.

Is the data licensed for reuse? AusTender data is published under CC BY 3.0 AU. Please attribute AusTender when you republish it.

Do I need an account on the source site? No. The Actor reads public, logged-out data from AusTender through its official interface.

Does it return personal data? No. Output is limited to organisation-level and record-level fields.

How fresh is the data? As fresh as the source: every run queries it live.

Is it legal to use this data? The data comes from an official public source. You are responsible for using it in line with the source's terms and the laws that apply to you.

Something broken, or a field you need? Open an issue on the Issues tab. We read every issue and reply as fast as we can.