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Government ICT Suppliers: Read the Footprint

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

The AusTender 2025-26 ICT notice cohort contains 2,151 distinct supplier identifiers across 7,846 original notices.

Source: David and Goliath analysis of archived Department of Finance AusTender original contract notices. Relevant sample n=7846. Definitions and reproduction method.

Method and reproduction

Rebuild the findings and aggregate downloads offline from the hash-verified compact analytical cohort, then read the latest-suppliers 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

The supplier footprint helps frame research into incumbent relationships and possible partners. The aggregate downloads report identifier counts, without supplier names or a supplier directory.

When investigating official AusTender notices, use reported ABNs to investigate aliases, then verify the relationship independently. Where an ABN is absent, the study retains the publisher identifier rather than guessing that similar names refer to the same organisation.

This count is not the number of independent corporate groups, the number of competitors in a tender or a measure of bidding intensity. It should guide further research rather than a market-share claim.

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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