Data & licensing
Only sources whose licence permits commercial reuse and whose terms permit automated access are ingested. Everything else is excluded on purpose — including sources that would make coverage look more national than it honestly is.
Ingested
| Source | Licence | Commercial reuse | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|
| AusTender — OCDS API (Commonwealth contract notices) Commonwealth |
CC BY 3.0 AU | YES — with attribution to the Commonwealth | daily; coverage from 2013-01-01 |
| AusTender — ATM RSS (current approaches to market / open tenders) Commonwealth |
CC BY 3.0 AU (Commonwealth) | YES — with attribution | daily |
| data.gov.au — CKAN catalogue (Commonwealth, incl. AusTender exports) Commonwealth |
CC BY 3.0 AU (AusTender datasets — NOT the 4.0 portal default) | YES — with attribution | weekly (Sundays) for the CN export; continuous catalogue |
| data.qld.gov.au — CKAN (Queensland contract disclosure) QLD |
CC BY 4.0 | YES — with attribution | varies per agency (near-realtime to quarterly) |
Registered, not yet enabled
| Source | Licence | Commercial reuse | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|
| data.nsw.gov.au — CKAN (NSW contract registers) NSW |
per-dataset (CC BY on contract sets; many 'Licence Specified by Agency' = closed) | CONDITIONAL — check each dataset's licence | per-dataset |
| data.act.gov.au — Socrata/SODA (ACT registers) ACT |
mostly CC BY 4.0 (some CC BY 3.0 AU / null — verify per-dataset) | YES for CC BY datasets | mixed (invoices live; contracts register stale since 2017) |
| Open Contracting Partnership — Data Registry (bulk OCDS) Cross-jurisdiction |
registry CC BY 4.0; each publication keeps source licence (AusTender = CC BY 3.0 AU) | YES (AusTender publication) | monthly (AusTender publication) |
Excluded — do not scrape
These portals prohibit commercial reuse, automated monitoring, or both.
| Source | Reason | Reuse |
|---|---|---|
| Tenders WA | Licence verified RESTRICTIVE: no reproduction/re-use for any commercial purpose without written permission. Commercial reuse: NO. Highest legal risk. | NO |
| Tenders SA | Licence verified: 'No licence to publish, communicate, modify, commercialise or alter.' robots disallows tender/contract views; Cloudflare 403s bots. | NO |
| Tenders ACT | Licence verified: 'all rights reserved… may not re-transmit, distribute, or commercialise.' Returns 403 to bots. (Use data.act.gov.au Socrata instead for the open subset.) | NO |
| Tasmania Tenders | © Government of Tasmania, non-commercial default. Commercial reuse: NO. No open data procurement dataset exists (LISTdata is spatial only). | NO |
| NT Quotations & Tenders Online | Licence: 'No part may be reproduced or reused for any purpose' except fair dealing. data.nt.gov.au 'awarded contracts' dataset is hollow (links back to HTML); robots disallows /api/. | NO |
| QTenders portal (qtenders.hpw.qld.gov.au) | No API/RSS; robots disallows /api/, *.json, *.xml; licence unconfirmed. Use data.qld.gov.au CKAN instead. | unconfirmed |
| Buying for Victoria / Tenders VIC portal | No API/bulk/RSS; no open-data licence published (treat as all-rights-reserved); login required for documents. DataVic CKAN exists but hosts no procurement data. | unconfirmed |
Attribution
Contains AusTender data © Commonwealth of Australia, licensed under CC BY 3.0 AU; and Queensland Government contract-disclosure data, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
Derived intelligence (scores, rankings, rollups) is produced by AU Tender Intelligence and is not endorsed by, nor affiliated with, the Commonwealth of Australia or the State of Queensland. Factual opportunity data is reused; source prose is not.