Who does Defence buy from?
Department of Defence, ABN 62950639680. 52,402 federal contract notices awarded between 17 July 2024 and 9 October 2026, to 10,005 distinct suppliers.
128,193 federal contract noticesAusTender OCDS award releasesretrieved 12 October 2026
Contracts expiring by 4 November 2027
6,175 contracts reach their recorded end date between 4 November 2026 and 4 November 2027, both dates included.
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6,175 of its contracts reach their end date by 4 November 2027. TenderScout watches this agency for you and matches new opportunities against your business profile.
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Suppliers recorded as an individual rather than a company are shown as “Individual supplier (name withheld)”.
Methodology. Source: AusTender OCDS award releases (Commonwealth/federal only), public.awarded_contracts; category names are the standard UNSPSC 2-digit segment titles mapped from each contract's unspsc_code — the source data's unspsc_title field is not populated, deduplicated by one release per OCID — the highest-value release, ties broken by release_id (the deployed public.awarded_contracts view rule), retrieved 12 October 2026.
How this agency buys
What it buys
Methodology. Source: AusTender OCDS award releases (Commonwealth/federal only), public.awarded_contracts; category names are the standard UNSPSC 2-digit segment titles mapped from each contract's unspsc_code — the source data's unspsc_title field is not populated, deduplicated by one release per OCID — the highest-value release, ties broken by release_id (the deployed public.awarded_contracts view rule), retrieved 12 October 2026.
Who it buys from
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This agency has awarded contracts to 10,005 distinct suppliers. Track who holds the work and be told the moment a replacement goes to market.
Start free trial →No card required.Ranked by number of contracts, never by dollar value. AusTender records some government entities and internal payment accounts as suppliers; these are not filtered out.
Methodology. Source: AusTender OCDS award releases (Commonwealth/federal only), public.awarded_contracts; category names are the standard UNSPSC 2-digit segment titles mapped from each contract's unspsc_code — the source data's unspsc_title field is not populated, deduplicated by one release per OCID — the highest-value release, ties broken by release_id (the deployed public.awarded_contracts view rule), retrieved 12 October 2026.
Contracts awarded over time
The first and last quarters shown are partial — the award record we query begins 17 July 2024 and the most recent award we hold is 9 October 2026.
Typical contract size
The median contract value is $37,716, across 52,402 contracts awarded between 17 July 2024 and 9 October 2026. Half of this agency’s contracts are smaller than that figure.
Why there is no total here. AusTender restates a contract’s value on every amendment, and a small number of published values are wrong by orders of magnitude. Counts, dates and methods are unaffected, so that is what this page reports.
Methodology. Source: AusTender OCDS award releases (Commonwealth/federal only), public.awarded_contracts; category names are the standard UNSPSC 2-digit segment titles mapped from each contract's unspsc_code — the source data's unspsc_title field is not populated, deduplicated by one release per OCID — the highest-value release, ties broken by release_id (the deployed public.awarded_contracts view rule), retrieved 12 October 2026.
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What Defence is re-tendering, by category
Management, business and administrative services expiring in 2027 · Information technology, broadcasting and telecommunications expiring in 2027 · Vehicles and vehicle components expiring in 2027 · Engineering, research and technology-based services expiring in 2027 · Management, business and administrative services expiring in 2026 · Management, business and administrative services expiring in 2028 · Vehicles and vehicle components expiring in 2026 · Building and facility construction and maintenance services expiring in 2027
Other buyers in vehicles and vehicle components
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade · Australian Federal Police · Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water · Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
Contracts expiring by category and year · All federal buyers · Which contracts expire in the next 90 days