AusTender Contract Notices

No open tenders: AusTender Contract Notices looks up, searches and alerts on Australian Government contract awards (AusTender contract notices), read from the AusTender API.

cnId	agency	value	currency	contractStart	contractEnd	publishedAt	procurementMethod
CN4280221	National Indigenous Australians Agency	44490.6	AUD	2026-09-22T14:00:00Z	2027-06-29T14:00:00Z	2026-10-01T23:51:13Z	Limited tender

A Console default run returns up to 3 notices: $0.006 on the Free plan. Through the API, maxItems defaults to 1,000 (up to $2.00 on Free), so set it.

Run it with the default input.

Source and licence

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.

Derived and modified by Yappman Data from AusTender contract notices: fields selected, renamed and redacted, and supplier names and identifiers left out.

Licensed under CC BY 3.0 AU: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/

This Actor is independent: it is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Department of Finance or AusTender.

Only contracts at or above the reporting threshold are published on AusTender: A$10,000 for most agencies, higher for corporate Commonwealth entities (Commonwealth Procurement Rules, paragraph 7.18).

What is left out

No supplier names. Version 1 outputs no supplier's name, legal name, ABN or party id, and has no supplier filter. Each row's notice link (noticeUrl) opens the notice on the AusTender API, which does name the supplier. Contact details and addresses are never read.

No subject line. A notice's description (its subject line) can name a person, so it is never output and there is no keyword search. The title field is the agency's contract reference as published (a reference code), not a subject. It is output only when it is reference-shaped (it contains a digit, contains no whitespace and is at most 40 characters); otherwise it is null. A reference can still be looked up on AusTender, which leads to the notice and its supplier.

Modes

• Lookup (cnIds): up to 20 CN ids, such as CN4280221 or an amendment id such as CN4271813-A1. Each returns the latest version of its notice, with its amendment count. An id AusTender does not know is reported as not found and costs nothing.
• Search: a date range of up to 92 days (default 31) on one of four dates (dateType), with filters for the agency, UNSPSC code prefixes, value in AUD, procurement method, and contract start and end dates.
• Alert (alertId): run it daily. Each run reads the last 14 days of contract last-modified dates, so amendments are caught, and returns only the notices this alert has never sent before. On its first run it returns the last firstRunLookbackDays days and records the rest as seen, without charge. An alert keeps what it has sent in your own key-value store, named after the alert.

Set an alert's filters and maxItems for its volume. An alert sends at most maxItems new notices a run, newest first. Narrow it with the filters first: agencies, unspscCodes, valueMin and valueMax, procurementMethods, and the contract start and end dates. Then set maxItems to cover the alert's expected filtered daily volume; otherwise its backlog grows and older notices can age out of the 14-day window unsent. The run summary counts those that will leave the window at 00:00 UTC unless a run sends them first (agedOutLeaving) and those that have left it unsent (agedOutLeft); none of them is ever charged. For scale: about 930 contract notices were modified on AusTender between 28 Oct 17:24 UTC and 29 Oct 07:12 UTC (an owner canary of 29 Oct 2026); unfiltered daily volume is in the high hundreds.

Do not put a person's name in alertId. It is kept in the alert's store name, its ledger, the run summary and the status message, in your account.

The run's RUN_SUMMARY record holds counts only, never what you typed (apart from the alert's name in alert mode).

Pricing

Pay per event: you pay only for the notices a run returns.

Event	Charged	Price on the Free plan	Bronze	Silver	Gold and above
notice	Each row returned (lookup, search and alert)	$0.002 ($2.00 per 1,000)	$0.0018	$0.0016	$0.0012

There is no start or run fee: a run that returns no notices costs nothing. Worked costs at Free-plan prices: one notice looked up, $0.002; a Console default run (the form starts maxItems at 3, so up to 3 notices), $0.006; an API run with no maxItems (default 1,000), or a 31-day search capped at 1,000 rows, up to $2.00. For alerts: a filtered alert (for example one agency with valueMin 100000, about 5 to 20 notices a day) with maxItems 50 costs about $0.01 to $0.04 a day; an unfiltered alert with maxItems 1000 costs up to $2.00 a day, about $60 a month on the Free plan and $36 on Gold and above.

Removal and objection

If a notice names you, or your business as a sole trader, you can ask for it to be left out of this Actor's output: email info@yappman.com with the CN id. A notice left out by its CN id is left out whole, with all of its amendments, later ones included. To object to all of your notices, including future ones, give your ABN; the Actor holds it only as a keyed hash, matched before anything is output: when any version of a notice that a run reads names that ABN, the whole notice, with its amendments, is left out of that run. We act on a request within one month. A notice left out on request is treated as if it were not found: it is never returned or charged.

Status

Built and checked on Apify (S5, 28 and 29 Oct 2026): lookup, search and alert, with charging and the removal lists.

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