AusTender Scraper: Australian Government Contracts to Excel

Export Australian Government contract awards from AusTender to Excel, CSV or JSON in seconds, with no API key. AusTender publishes about 800 Commonwealth contract notices a week (847 in an 8-day test window, Oct 2026). This Actor reads the official AusTender OCDS API, filters by keyword, UNSPSC, agency, supplier or ABN, value and dates, and returns one clean row per contract: supplier and ABN, value, start and end dates, procurement method and notice link. Use the contract end date filter to find contracts about to expire (re-tender leads), and schedule "only new" for daily alerts.

AusTender is the official procurement system of the Commonwealth (Department of Defence, Services Australia, the ATO, Home Affairs and the other Commonwealth agencies). Every contract of AUD 10,000 or more must be published there. Extra fields include the limited-tender reason, agency branch and division, and contract amendments.

Built by TenderFeed (apify.com/tenderfeed) on the official AusTender OCDS API (Open Contracting Data Standard, CC BY 3.0 AU). No API key, no login, no browser.

What can you do with it?

• Find contracts about to expire (dateType: contractEnd with a future window): the best early signal of upcoming re-tenders.
• Competitor and partner intelligence: every contract a company won, by name or ABN, with values.
• Sales prospecting: which agencies buy your category (UNSPSC), how much and through which method (open or limited tender).
• Market research and journalism: spend by agency, supplier and category.
• AI agents: call it as an MCP tool and ask "Which IT contracts over $1M with Defence end in the next 3 months?"

Input example

{
  "keywords": ["software", "cloud"],
  "unspscCodes": ["4323", "8111"],
  "agencies": ["Department of Defence"],
  "dateType": "contractPublished",
  "dateFrom": "30 days",
  "minValue": 100000,
  "procurementMethods": ["open", "limited"],
  "maxResults": 200
}

Contracts expiring soon:

{ "dateType": "contractEnd", "dateFrom": "2026-11-01", "dateTo": "2027-01-31", "minValue": 1000000 }

Output example

Real row from a live run on 2026-10-29:

{
  "source": "austender",
  "sourceId": "CN4285498",
  "ocid": "prod-f929faabe32c42e28d2b690f27fc175a",
  "url": "https://www.tenders.gov.au/Cn/Show/cbbfff77-528e-4301-98f8-b184196c5073",
  "title": "Software Licencing",
  "noticeType": "Contract notice",
  "status": "active",
  "procedureType": "Open tender",
  "buyerName": "Australian Digital Health Agency",
  "buyerAbn": "84425496912",
  "buyerCountry": "AU",
  "otherClassificationCodes": ["UNSPSC:43200000"],
  "publishedAt": "2026-10-29",
  "contractStart": "2026-10-26",
  "contractEnd": "2027-10-25",
  "awardedValue": 159860.09,
  "currency": "AUD",
  "awardees": ["A23 PTY. LTD"],
  "supplierAbn": "81612329781",
  "supplierCity": "Canberra",
  "supplierState": "ACT",
  "agencyReference": "4500164987",
  "isAmendment": false
}

Other fields: contractNoticeId, apiUrl, limitedTenderReason, exemption, buyerBranch, buyerDivision, supplierPostcode, supplierCountry, contractSigned, publishedAtTime and amendments (value and date changes). Amendment notices are separate rows with isAmendment: true; turn off includeAmendments to skip them.

Field coverage (live test, 100 notices published 2026-10-23 to 2026-10-29)

Value, supplier, UNSPSC, start and end date, procurement method, notice link: 100/100. Supplier ABN: 94/100. Agency contact name and email: 100/100 (with includeBuyerContacts).

AusTender publishes contract notices (awarded contracts). Open approaches-to-market are not part of the public API.

The data follows the same normalized schema as our other TenderFeed Actors (EU TED, SAM.gov, UK, USAspending).

Contacts (includeBuyerContacts)

Off by default (privacy-friendly). Turn it on to get the agency contact published on each notice; it is often a procurement team mailbox, sometimes a named officer.

Daily alerts ("only new" monitoring mode)

Turn on onlyNew, set a monitoringId (for example "defence-it") and schedule the Actor daily. Each run returns, and charges for, only contract notices you have not received yet. In our test, a second identical run skipped all 5 notices delivered by the first and returned 5 different ones.

Sample output (real run)

One row from a run on 6 November 2026 (core columns only; every row also has description, status, procedureType, documentsUrl and more). Contact values are masked here. Since schema 1.2 every row also carries the cross-source columns country, deadline, valueAmount, valueCurrency and cpvOrNaics next to the original ones (buyerCountry, deadlineAt, estimatedValue, currency, cpvCodes/naicsCodes), which are unchanged.

{
  "title": "Software Licences",
  "source": "austender",
  "country": "AU",
  "noticeType": "Contract notice",
  "publishedAt": "2026-11-06",
  "deadline": null,
  "buyerName": "Department of Employment and Workplace Relations",
  "valueAmount": 65218.75,
  "valueCurrency": "AUD",
  "cpvOrNaics": null,
  "setAside": null,
  "url": "https://www.tenders.gov.au/Cn/Show/22de3368-eb9a-4ae0-a362-a61e74e24c39",
  "buyerContactName": null,
  "buyerContactEmail": null,
  "buyerContactPhone": null
}

Limits and notes

• Data source: AusTender OCDS API (contract notices).
• Access: No login or API key.
• Delays and gaps: These are published contract notices (awards), not open approaches to market, so there is no deadline. Agencies report contracts after award, so they can lag the start date.
• Contacts: No buyer contact persons are extracted.
• Fields the portal does not publish stay null; nothing is guessed or filled in.

Pricing

Pay per result: you pay only for the notices saved to the dataset (see the price on this page), plus Apify's small run-start fee. The default run (100 notices from the last 7 days) takes a few seconds.

More TenderFeed sources

Same output schema across all sources, so you can merge results in one sheet or CRM:

• EU TED tenders
• SAM.gov federal contract opportunities
• Grants.gov US federal grants
• USAspending federal contract awards
• UK Find a Tender + Contracts Finder
• France BOAMP appels d'offres
• Switzerland SIMAP tenders
• World Bank procurement notices & awards
• Poland BZP e-Zamówienia tenders
• Ukraine Prozorro tenders
• EU Funding & Tenders Portal grants and calls
• CanadaBuys tenders and awards
• Germany public tenders (Ausschreibungen)
• NYC City Record bids & awards
• Brazil PNCP licitações
• Colombia SECOP II licitaciones
• Netherlands TenderNed aanbestedingen

FAQ

Is this official data? Yes. It comes from the AusTender OCDS API published by the Australian Government Department of Finance.

How much data is there? About 800 contract notices per week (847 in an 8-day test window).

Something missing? Open an issue on the Actor page. TenderFeed answers within one business day.