Coming up

The Coming up, Panels and Grants summaries

Coming up, Panels › Open and Grants › Open (Open, Ongoing and Closed) open on the same kind of summary, and every figure opens Items holding exactly what it counts.

• Coming up — how many plans, how many were updated or first seen in the last 30 days, and how many state a spend range. A Commonwealth plan's date is AusTender's last update; states publish no date, so a state plan counts from the day BidNomy first saw it. While a state source's first load is in view, the chart notes the months and the figure says how many of its plans came from that load. Spend ranges are shown as each publisher wrote them, counted and never added up.
• Panels — counted, never summed. Open means not yet expired; the figures show how many expire within 90, 180 and 365 days.
• Grants — GrantConnect rounds only, never forecasts. Published round totals adds up the total each round publishes for the whole round — not money on offer this year — and says how many rounds publish one.

Queensland's forward procurement pipeline

Queensland publishes a forward procurement pipeline as open data — the work its agencies intend to take to market, reissued about monthly — and it sits in Coming up, under the QLD chip, beside the Commonwealth plan lines and the other states' forward plans. A forward plan is not a tender and not an opportunity you can respond to: nothing has been published, there is no closing date, and there is no document. It is the earliest published sign that work is coming, which is usually months before the tender and often before the requirement is fixed.

The timing and the spend are the agency's own words, and we leave them that way. A programme's expected approach reads Jul - Sep 26 on one row and July – Dec 27 on the next, and its spend reads Less than $1M, $10M - $50M or <$10m — around two dozen spellings each, typed into a spreadsheet by thirty-eight different agencies. We show them exactly as published and do not parse them into dates, sort them or add them up: a band is not a contract value, so a forward plan carries no estimated value at all, and a tidy-looking number here would be our arithmetic rather than the agency's intention. The procurement method is the same, and on some rows it reads TBC.

Withdrawn means it left the file, and nothing more. Each monthly release is the whole pipeline as it stands, so an entry that is no longer in the newest file is marked withdrawn. The publisher does not say whether the work went to market, was cancelled or was merged into something else — so neither do we. Coming up shows current entries; a withdrawn one is still on its record page.

Queensland also flags the programmes related to the Brisbane 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games, and those carry a Brisbane 2032 label on the card and a badge on the record page. Queensland's open tenders come from QTenders and are under Open tenders with every other state's. Its awarded contracts are open data and are loaded — the agencies' own contract disclosure reports, from A$10,000 up — and they live under Market intelligence › Contracts, where the limits of that count are set out.