Search

Search

The Search box at the top of the sidebar searches every record at once: approaches to market, planned procurements, contract notices, standing offers, grants, agencies and suppliers, Commonwealth and state. Type a supplier, an agency, a UNSPSC category, an ATM number or a contract notice id and press Enter. Results are ranked across every record type your plan includes.

Spelling mistakes in plain words are corrected: the page says Showing results for the corrected words, with Search only for your own spelling under it. Australian and US spellings are searched together, so labour finds labor.

Narrow the results

The tabs above the results show how many records each type holds: All, Open tenders, Planned, Panels, Contracts, Grants, and any other type that matched, such as Agencies or Suppliers. Point at Open tenders or Grants to choose Open now, Closed or Any. Past 10,000 matches the count reads 10,000+.

Under the tabs, a chip for each government with a match toggles it in or out of the search, and the agency chips narrow it to one agency (+N more shows the rest). A jurisdiction outside your plan shows its count but opens the pricing page instead.

Filter adds record type, status, jurisdiction, a date range and a value range in AUD, and the sort offers Most relevant, Newest, Oldest and Largest value. Each active filter shows as a chip you can remove.

Query syntax

The table under the results lists what the box understands. Quotes find an exact phrase, a space or + means both terms, | or the word or means either, a leading - excludes a term, brackets group terms, an asterisk at the end of a word matches every word that starts with it, and ~2 after a word allows two typing errors in titles. Field filters such as agency:Defence are read as plain words; use the filters instead.

Save a search as an alert

Save in the row above the results keeps the words and every filter as an alert that emails you new matches daily or weekly. When nothing open matches, Alert me when one opens does the same for the first one to appear.

The quick menu

Press ⌘K on a Mac or Ctrl+K elsewhere, on any page, to open the quick menu. Words already in the search box come with it. As you type it offers:

• Actions — New bid, New alert and Ask Bower with your words in the box.
• Go to — any page in the menu.
• Agencies — agencies your words name, with an Account plan for row for the closest one.
• Records — the first matching records, and All results for your words.

Arrow keys move, Enter opens and Escape closes; Enter with nothing highlighted runs the full search. On a phone the shortcut goes to the search box instead.