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Government ICT Agencies: Read the Concentration

Name: Australian Government ICT Procurement Index
Creator: David and Goliath
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/

By David and Goliath. Last updated 20 October 2026.

Australia | Financial years 2023-24, 2024-25 and 2025-26 | Initial lifetime contract commitments

The finding

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: David and Goliath analysis of archived Department of Finance AusTender original contract notices. Relevant sample n=3294. Definitions and reproduction method.

Method and reproduction

Rebuild the findings and aggregate downloads offline from the hash-verified compact analytical cohort, then read the largest-agency entry in data/research/anz-government-ict/results.json.

python3 scripts/research/anz-government-ict/analyse.py

Read the methodology for the cohort definition, source licence, exclusions and exact keyword rule. The full study provides the downloadable aggregate tables and explains the separate raw-source audit.

What this means for account planning

An agency's share of the study cohort can help prioritise investigation. It does not establish whether a particular vendor's product fits that agency or whether an open procurement exists.

Review category mix, contract descriptions and incumbent suppliers before selecting accounts. A large multi-year contract can dominate one publication year, so validate procurement timing directly.

Agency identifiers and names can change after government restructures. This analysis preserves publisher identities and makes no claim that the same agency panel exists across all three years.

Read the full study and download the data. Use the account-selection guide and the ABM hub to turn the evidence into a research plan.

Sources and reuse

Australian Government Department of Finance, AusTender contract notice data, CC BY 3.0 Australia. Adapted and analysed by David and Goliath. Read the licence. No government endorsement is implied.

Official AusTender API documentation. Read the methodology, definitions and limitations.

Data collected from 2026-10-19T20:59:53.817Z to 2026-10-20T00:35:25.828Z. Source response URLs, original timestamps and hashes are pinned in the research manifest. The compact derived cohort reproduces the aggregates offline; raw source recovery is a separate audit step.

Turn evidence into an account plan

Use the agency and category tables to investigate account fit, incumbent suppliers and contract timing. Historical awards do not establish an open opportunity or a future budget.

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