Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

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Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, ABN 47065634525. 5,872 federal contract notices awarded between 22 July 2024 and 9 October 2026, to 2,841 distinct suppliers.

128,193 federal contract noticesAusTender OCDS award releasesretrieved 12 October 2026

Contracts expiring by 5 November 2027

1,495 contracts reach their recorded end date between 5 November 2026 and 5 November 2027, both dates included.

SupplierCategoryEndsDays left
Individual supplier (name withheld)Management, business and administrative services0
MTP Services Pty LtdEngineering, research and technology-based services1
AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATIONEditorial, design, graphic and fine art services1

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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

Procurement method, by number of contracts
Limited tender
3,522 · 60%
Open tender
2,350 · 40%

What it buys

Top categories, by number of contracts
Management, business and administrative services
2,336 · 39.8%
Information technology, broadcasting and telecommunications
428 · 7.3%
Education and training services
414 · 7.1%
Engineering, research and technology-based services
331 · 5.6%
Defence, law enforcement, security and safety equipment
307 · 5.2%
Building and facility construction and maintenance services
219 · 3.7%
Transportation, storage and mail services
202 · 3.4%
Public utilities and public sector related services
202 · 3.4%

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

Top 25 suppliers, ranked by number of contracts awarded
SupplierContractsShareLast award
University of New South Wales2334%9 October 2026
ABT ASSOCIATES PTY LTD871.5%6 October 2026
MTP Services Pty Ltd741.3%1 October 2026

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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

Contracts awarded per calendar quarter
2024 Q3
560
2024 Q4
567
2025 Q1
587
2025 Q2
875
2025 Q3
553
2025 Q4
643
2026 Q1
542
2026 Q2
746
2026 Q3
719
2026 Q4
80

The first and last quarters shown are partial — the award record we query begins 22 July 2024 and the most recent award we hold is 9 October 2026.

Typical contract size

The median contract value is $62,329, across 5,872 contracts awarded between 22 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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