Awards

Status. AusTender contract notices, standing offer panels, GrantConnect grant awards and the state awards each publisher has released are loaded. The ACT's payments are a list of their own.

Awards is the most useful section in Australian government contracting, because the Commonwealth publishes what it actually bought. Contract notices run from 2007 to today, each with the buying entity, the supplier and its ABN, the procurement method, the value and — critically — the end date, which is what makes an expiring-contract horizon possible at all. Panel awards list the suppliers appointed to each standing offer, and a contract notice names the standing offer it was drawn from, so Contracts can be narrowed to one panel's work. Grant awards and panel places each open a record page of their own.

One detail governs everything here. AusTender publishes one row per publication event: the original notice, then each amendment as its own row carrying cumulative values. Summing them raw double-counts, sometimes severely. Every figure in this product resolves a notice to its latest version first, and the row you see is the contract as it stands today, with its amendment count shown beside it.

State awards

State awards are in Contracts, beside the AusTender contract notices, with a row of jurisdiction chips above the list — Commonwealth is one chip and each state another. Each card says which it is ("Contract notice · AusTender", "State award · Tenders WA"), because a state notice is not an AusTender one. Several jurisdictions are connected and none of them is the same thing. New South Wales carries an archive of contracts and standing offers alongside its tenders, schemes and forward plans. Western Australia's awards are the history Tenders WA releases as open data: three financial years of contract and standing offer history — award dates from July 2021 to June 2024 — as an open dataset under CC BY 4.0. Queensland's awards are its agencies' own contract disclosure reports. The Australian Capital Territory's awards are its live Contracts Register, used with written permission, plus its 2000-2017 registers under CC BY; its tenders and Advance Tender Notices are under Opportunities. Every state's current tenders and forward plans — WA's and Queensland's included — are under Opportunities, not here: a tender that has been awarded stays a tender, with its status saying so.

What a state publishes also differs from what the Commonwealth does, and the page shows the difference rather than filling it in. WA publishes no supplier ABN, no status and no GST flag, so a WA award names its supplier as plain text, shows no status line and labels its figure plainly. It does publish two things AusTender does not: how many offers the buyer received — where none is a real answer — and whether the value is an estimate or the agreed price, which is why a WA figure may read Value (estimate). Every state record, and every export holding one, carries the publisher's attribution line shown verbatim. State coverage is included from Launch Plus up, and in the trial.

The ACT is the one jurisdiction here that is also on a list of its own: alongside its contracts it publishes the Notifiable Invoices Register, invoices it has paid rather than awards — ACT payments under Awards, which the Contracts chip row links to — counted and exported as payments and added to no award figure anywhere.

Queensland's awarded contracts

Queensland does not run a central award register. Every agency publishes its own contract disclosure report on data.qld.gov.au — awarded contracts of A$10,000 and over, one dataset per agency per year or so, 370 datasets from 67 organisations — and those are what the Queensland rows on this page are. They are open data, but not under one licence: most datasets are CC BY 4.0 and a handful are CC BY 3.0 AU, so the attribution line travels with the row and is the line shown beside it.

Read a Queensland count as a floor, never a total. Contracts under A$10,000 are not disclosed at all, and the agencies that publish in Excel alone are not loaded — so there is more than you can see. In the other direction, where an agency publishes no reference number a contract whose value was later varied can appear twice, so there is sometimes less than the row count suggests. This product therefore never presents a Queensland total spend, and neither should a report built from these rows.

Queensland publishes less per contract than NSW does. There is no GST flag, no status, no count of offers received and no estimate-or-fixed-price basis, and roughly half the agencies publish no supplier ABN — Health and most departments do, Police and Treasury do not. Those lines are left off the page rather than shown as dashes. The Source link on a Queensland award opens the agency's disclosure report, because no page about the individual contract exists.

Victoria and South Australia

Victoria and South Australia publish their contracts on the same kind of site, one state apart: Buying for Victoria (Tenders VIC) and SA Tenders and Contracts, where every agency discloses each contract it lets on a page of its own. Both registers are here with each publisher's written permission, and each row carries the publisher's attribution line — "Source: State of Victoria, Buying for Victoria / Tenders VIC (www.tenders.vic.gov.au), used with written permission" and "Source: Government of South Australia, SA Tenders and Contracts (www.tenders.sa.gov.au), used with written permission". Their open tenders and advance tender notices are under Opportunities. The Source link on either opens the contract's own page on the publisher's site.

Victoria publishes no award or publication date. A Victorian contract is dated, ordered and filtered by its start date, and its record page says the publication date was not published rather than leaving a blank. Victoria also does not say whether its figures include GST, so a Victorian value is never labelled either way; it reads Value (estimate) where the publisher marked the figure an estimate. About seven in ten Victorian contracts name a supplier ABN.

South Australian values include GST, so they read Value (incl. GST), and a contract is dated by the day it was executed. The register publishes no supplier ABN, so a South Australian supplier is named as plain text, as a WA one is.

What you can do

• Filter contracts by agency, supplier ABN, UNSPSC category, start date and standing offer, and sort them by value. There is no method or value filter yet.
• Open a contract and see how many times it was amended. The amendments themselves are not listed yet.
• Open a panel place to see the standing offer and its other members, and narrow Contracts to one standing offer. The money drawn by each member is not shown yet.
• Export a filtered list as CSV, within the row limit and daily export count on your plan.