# Australian government ICT procurement index

Australian Government Department of Finance, AusTender contract notice data, CC BY 3.0 Australia. Adapted and analysed by David and Goliath.

Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/. Source API documentation: https://github.com/austender/austender-ocds-api.

Collection completed: 2026-10-20T00:35:25.828644+00:00. Publication period: 2023-07-01 to 2026-06-30, Australia/Sydney.

- AusTender original ICT notices published in 2025-26 recorded A$5,729,473,444.82 in initial lifetime contract value across 7,846 notices. Source: archived AusTender OCDS releases; reproduce with python3 scripts/research/anz-government-ict/analyse.py.
- The AusTender 2025-26 ICT notice cohort contains 2,151 distinct supplier identifiers across 7,846 original notices. Source: archived AusTender OCDS releases; reproduce with python3 scripts/research/anz-government-ict/analyse.py.
- The AusTender 2025-26 ICT notice cohort covers 114 procuring-entity identifiers across 7,846 original notices. Source: archived AusTender OCDS releases; reproduce with python3 scripts/research/anz-government-ict/analyse.py.
- In the AusTender 2025-26 ICT study cohort, Department of Defence accounts for A$2,671,087,695.43 in initial contract value, representing 46.62% of the total. Source: archived AusTender OCDS releases; reproduce with python3 scripts/research/anz-government-ict/analyse.py.
- Across the study period, 258 AusTender original ICT notices match the disclosed cyber-related description keywords, with A$173,401,677.61 in initial lifetime contract value. Source: archived AusTender OCDS releases; reproduce with python3 scripts/research/anz-government-ict/analyse.py.

These are original-notice initial lifetime commitments, not annual expenditure. Amendments are excluded. Supplier identifiers are not verified legal-entity counts. The cyber keyword subset is not an exhaustive market total.

Methodology: https://davidandgoliath.ai/resources/research/anz-government-ict/methodology