Participants

Status: in development. Agency and supplier profiles are connected, and suppliers are grouped by company on their ABNs. ANAO performance audit findings are not joined to a profile yet.

Participants turns the two sides of a notice into pages. An agency profile pulls together everything a Commonwealth entity has bought, through which methods and panels, in which categories, over which years — joined to its budget programs from the Portfolio Budget Statements. There are 197 Commonwealth entities in the register, with the trading names and abbreviations they actually publish under mapped on, so a search for an abbreviation and one for the full legal name land on the same profile.

The register is no longer Commonwealth-only. Queensland's bodies were loaded into it as its first state wave, and New South Wales, Western Australia, the Australian Capital Territory, the Northern Territory, Victoria and South Australia have followed on the same keys — which is why the agency list has a tab for each of the eight governments. It matters because Queensland's publishers do not agree with each other about names: the forward procurement pipeline writes "Department of Education" and that department's own contract disclosure report writes "DoE", and across the whole file not one of the 38 pipeline agency names matches an award agency name. The register is what makes them one buyer — so a Queensland plan links to that buyer's awards, an award links to its forward plan, and the entity page gathers both. A body the wave does not hold keeps the name its publisher used and simply carries no link; nothing is guessed. And a state entity's page shows the two blocks its records actually live in rather than the Commonwealth four, because contracts, panels and budget programs are AusTender figures and read zero for a state body.

A supplier profile is the same treatment from the other direction: what this company has won, from whom, in what, and which panels let it bid. 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. Jurisdictions is the honest coverage page: what is loaded, from which portal, and what is not there yet.

Coverage is not the same shape in every jurisdiction, and the page says so line by line rather than averaging it into a status word. New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Queensland, Western Australia, the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory each have open tenders, forward plans and awards; New South Wales alone publishes standing schemes; Western Australia's awards are an open-data history to June 2024; Queensland's are its agencies' own contract disclosure; the Australian Capital Territory's are its live Contracts Register plus its 2000-2017 registers under CC BY. The Australian Capital Territory is still the one jurisdiction that is different in kind: it ALSO publishes the invoices it has paid, which live under ACT payments and are never counted as one of its awards. Victoria and South Australia are Buying for Victoria and SA Tenders and Contracts, used with each publisher's written permission.

The Northern Territory is the one row that is waiting on something other than us. Quotations and Tenders Online is the Territory's tender site and the only NT award register there is, and its Awarded tenders search publishes awarded tenders and quotes from 2010, one row per awarded supplier, with no contract term, no GST flag and no count of offers received. Those rows are loaded, and they are not shown: the Territory's own copyright terms allow no reuse outside a Creative Commons licence, and the Creative Commons claim rests on a single dataset page, so we have asked the Northern Territory Government for written permission and nothing NT appears here until that reply is on file. The status word on the Jurisdictions page is read from the data every time the page opens, so it changes on the day the permission lands rather than the day somebody remembers to edit it. When it does, an NT value is worth reading as an estimate: the Territory is the one publisher here that states an amount against each awarded supplier, an award's value is the sum of them, and about a third of those amounts are schedules of rates rather than agreed prices.

What you will be able to do

• Open an entity and see its buying pattern, panels, programs and audit findings (audit findings are not joined yet).
• Open a supplier and see its Commonwealth history and panel memberships.
• Compare who wins from a given agency in a given category.
• Check exactly which jurisdictions are loaded before relying on a figure.
• Export a filtered list of entities or suppliers as CSV, within the row limit and daily export count on your plan.