Market intelligence

Status. AusTender contract notices and the state awards each publisher has released are loaded. The ACT's payments are a tab of their own.

Market intelligence is what has already been bought. Its items in the sidebar are:

Contracts — every awarded contract, Commonwealth and state, in one list. Its second tab, ACT payments, holds the invoices the ACT has paid; they are never added to contracts. See ACT payments.
Suppliers — every supplier, what they won and from whom (below).
Market size, Market share and Expiring contracts — three standing questions about the market, each a page of its own (below).
Categories — what was bought under each category. See Categories.
Analytics — byAUTO's dashboards, in a new tab (below).

Who is on a panel and who won a grant round are under Opportunities, on the Awarded tabs of Panels and Grants, beside the panels and rounds still open.

Contracts

Contracts is the most useful list 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 Expiring contracts 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.

The figures at the top

The Market intelligence page opens with four Commonwealth figures, refreshed hourly. Each one opens what it counts.

Contracted — the value of contract notices published this month so far, beside the same days of last month. Opens Contracts. An amended contract counts in the month of its latest amendment.
Largest this month — the biggest contract published this month. Opens the contract.
Panels refreshed — panels that added supplier places in the last 30 days, with the places added and the new standing offers. Opens Panels › Awarded, newest first.
Grants awarded — grants first awarded this month and the program with the most money. Opens Grants › Awarded.

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 its contracts and standing offers from Tenders WA: the open-data files (award dates July 2021 to June 2024, CC BY 4.0) plus newer awards from the live Tenders WA register, used with written permission and refreshed weekly. Awards from July 2024 onwards are still being back-filled, so that period may be incomplete for now. Queensland's awards are its agencies' own contract disclosure reports. The Northern Territory's are its awarded tenders and quotes from Quotations and Tenders Online, from November 2010. 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. Tasmania is not available yet. 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 Pro up, and in the trial.

State standing offers are counted, never added to a value. A state standing offer — a panel, a standing offer arrangement, a common-use arrangement — states a ceiling to buy from, and what an agency buys under it is published as a contract of its own. Adding the two would count the same money twice, so every value total in the product is contract awards only, and standing offers are given beside it as a count: Market size, Market share and Expiring contracts, and a supplier's State awards figure, which reads "contracts · value · standing offers". The Standing offers tab still lists every one of them, and a standing offer's own page still shows the value it states. It is the same reason the Commonwealth's standing offers are not in any contract total.

The ACT is the one jurisdiction here that also has a tab of its own: alongside its contracts it publishes the Notifiable Invoices Register, invoices it has paid rather than awards — the ACT payments tab of Contracts — counted 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.

Suppliers

A supplier profile is what a company has won, from whom, in what, and which panels let it bid. Its State awards figure is contract awards and their value, with the state standing offers it holds counted beside them and never added to the value — a standing offer is an arrangement to buy from, not a sum anybody was awarded, and what is bought under it is already one of the contracts. A supplier's ACT payments are a tile of their own beside the award figures, never inside them.

Supplier identity is keyed on ABN rather than the name string an agency typed into a notice, because name-keyed counting invents new entrants out of rebrands and typos — and new-entrant and win-rate analysis is worthless if it does. A company's page gathers every ABN it trades under.

Market size

Market size, Market share and Expiring contracts answer the three questions that decide where a bid team spends its year: how big a category is and whether it is growing, which suppliers gained and lost value last year, and what expires inside the bid window and who holds it. Each is computed when you open it — two or three aggregates over the same contract notices you can browse under Contracts — so there is no build to wait for and no figure older than the last data load. How to narrow each one is under Choosing the scope.

Market size is how much is contracted in a category, over the last 1, 3, 5 or 10 financial years.

The headline — total contracted, how many notices, how many suppliers by ABN, the average contract, the average term, and year-on-year growth.
By financial year — the yearly totals, with the count of notices and distinct suppliers behind each.
Biggest buyers — the ten agencies that contracted the most, each linking to its entity page.
How it was bought — open, limited, selective and a fourth bar for everything else, including the notices that publish no method at all. Three-bar versions of this chart quietly under-report every year by whatever that fourth bar holds.
Biggest suppliers — the ten supplier groups by value, with each group's share of the window.

One financial year against the one before it, in the same scope.

The headline — contracted in each year, the change between them, how many supplier groups won work, and the market's HHI in both years. HHI is the sum of every group's squared percentage share: under 1,500 is an unconcentrated market, over 2,500 a concentrated one, and a jump between the two years is a market closing up.
Gained the most / Lost the most — the fifteen groups whose value moved furthest in each direction, with both years, both shares and the change in dollars. The losers list includes groups that held work last year and none this year.
New entrants — groups whose first Commonwealth contract in any category falls in this year. A prime that has sold since 2009 and has just taken its first job in your segment is a competitor moving in, not a new company, so it is not counted here.

Expiring contracts

Contracts whose published end date falls in the next 90, 180, 365 or 548 days, above a value floor you set.

The headline — how many contracts end, what they are worth, the average, and how many agencies they sit across.
When it ends, by UNSPSC segment and who holds it — the shape of the window, and the code on each segment row narrows the whole page to it in one click.
Soonest to end — the fifty nearest, with the incumbent on each. This is the re-compete list: the contract, the buyer, the supplier that holds it today and the date it runs out.

A published end date is the term as awarded. An extension option taken up quietly does not appear until the agency amends the notice, so treat the list as the earliest a re-compete could land rather than a promise that one will.

Choosing the scope

Market size, Market share and Expiring contracts each open on the Commonwealth. Their Jurisdiction control switches to one state or territory, or to the Commonwealth and the states together; on Market size only, ACT payments is a choice of its own and is never summed into the ACT or into the combined figure. Within that scope each takes a UNSPSC category — on the Commonwealth a code at any level (43000000 is a segment, 43230000 a family, 43231500 a class, and each narrows to everything under that node), picked one level at a time or found by typing, which narrows the list to the categories with contracts in that jurisdiction, at every level at once; the states that code their awards offer the same box over their own codes, with their published category names alongside, and some publish none — an agency (on the Commonwealth and Queensland, the entities register, matched by name, short form, former name or alias; on the other states, the names that state publishes), and, when you arrive from an agency page, that registered entity. The filters live in the URL, so a scoped page is a link you can paste to the rest of the team.

Dollar values across the portal use M (million), B (billion) and T (trillion) from $1 million, rounded to at most two decimal places: $1.25M, $162.07B. Smaller amounts stay in full dollars, such as $875,000. Ask Bower for an exact amount.

Three rules behind every market figure

Contracted, never spent. Every dollar figure is the contract value published at award. The record holds each contract's latest published value and nothing pro-rates it across the years the contract runs, so a financial year's total is what was committed in it, not what was paid out during it. A page that said "FY2025-26 spend" would be saying something the data cannot support.

The current financial year is partial, and says so. Any figure or bar that includes the running year carries the date it is complete to, and Market size's growth figure compares the two most recent complete years — comparing three months of this year against twelve of last would report a collapse every July.

Suppliers are grouped by company, keyed by ABN. A supplier group is one corporate family across all its ABNs and every spelling an agency has typed, which is what stops a rebrand or a misspelling reading as a new entrant. Each group links to the ABN holding the most value inside it. A notice published with no ABN still counts towards the totals; it just cannot be linked.

Contract notices are resolved to their latest amendment before anything is summed (see Contracts): every figure on Market size, Market share and Expiring contracts, and every figure on Contracts, reads the resolved view.

Exporting market figures

Market size, Market share and Expiring contracts do not download as spreadsheets: government records stay in BidNomy, on every plan (see Downloads and limits). Every figure and table stays on the page, and Bower can work through one with you.

Analytics

Analytics, the last item under Market intelligence, opens byAUTO's market dashboards in a new tab, signed in with your BidNomy account — no second password. It comes with every plan and with the free trial, and every plan sees every dashboard folder. Once your organisation's plan has ended, the link shows the plans instead and the dashboards close the next time you open it; choosing a plan opens them again. The sign-in lasts as long as your Analytics session; opening the link again signs you in afresh.

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.
Narrow Contracts to one standing offer. The money drawn by each panel member is not shown yet.