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Reports

Three standing questions about the market — the Commonwealth, a state or territory, or all of them — computed over the contract record.

Reports 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 Awards — so there is no build to wait for and no figure older than the last data load.

Every report opens on the Commonwealth. Its Jurisdiction control switches it to one state or territory, or to the Commonwealth and the states together; on Market only, ACT payments is a choice of its own and is never summed into the ACT or into the combined figure. Within that scope every report 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 searched by name across the whole tree; most states offer their own published category names instead, 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 report is a link you can paste to the rest of the team.

Market

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.

Winners and losers

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.

Horizon

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 report 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.

Three rules behind every 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 report 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 the Market report'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.

Amendments

Contract notices are resolved to their latest amendment before anything is summed. AusTender publishes one row per publication — the base notice plus -A1, -A2 and so on, each carrying the cumulative value — so a five-times-amended contract would otherwise be counted six times. Every figure in every report, and every figure under Awards, reads the resolved view.

Exporting

Every block of a report has its own Export CSV link, at the top right of the block. It downloads that block and only that block: a report is three or four tables with different columns, and one file each is what opens cleanly in a spreadsheet where a single file would be three header rows stacked on top of each other. The headline figures are not exported — they are four numbers already on the page.

The file is the rows you are looking at, with the filters you have applied: the export reads the same computed answer the page did, so the two cannot disagree. The header row is the API's own column names rather than the headings on screen, so a spreadsheet built on one export keeps working after a heading is reworded.

How many rows you get is set by your plan — see Export limits. Over the limit the file is not refused; it holds the first rows of the block in the order the block is in, and the response says which limit applied.