Australia tender market report, August 2026
Published 22 Oct 2026 · computed by FreeTender from 200 notices
- Notices published
- 200
- Still open
- 33
- at the time of this report
- Median bid window
- 37 days
- middle half: 27–53 days
- With a stated value
- 0
- 0% of notices
Summary
In August 2026, FreeTender recorded 200 new procurement notices from buyers in Australia. The largest sector was Construction & Infrastructure with 39 notices (20% of the total). Half of all notices gave bidders 37 days or less to respond. Monday was the busiest publishing day (29% of notices).
Notices by sector
- Construction & Infrastructure39 notices
- Water & Environment25 notices
- Education & Training18 notices
- Financial & Professional Services15 notices
- Healthcare & Pharma11 notices
- Real Estate & Facilities10 notices
- Transport & Logistics9 notices
- Sports, Recreation & Events9 notices
- Agriculture & Food7 notices
- IT & Telecom6 notices
- Manufacturing & Supply5 notices
- Facility Management & Cleaning4 notices
- Defence & Security4 notices
- Mining & Metals3 notices
How buyers tendered
- Open tender112 notices
- Grant / funding call81 notices
- Contract award2 notices
- Standing arrangement2 notices
- Expression of interest2 notices
- rfi1 notices
Publishing day
- Monday58 notices
- Tuesday20 notices
- Wednesday35 notices
- Thursday33 notices
- Friday44 notices
- Saturday6 notices
- Sunday4 notices
Most active buyers in Australia
- Australian Government39 notices
- Department of Defence - DSRG6 notices
- QBuild3 notices
- Gympie Regional Council3 notices
- Diamantina Shire Council3 notices
- STATE, DEPARTMENT OF · STATE, DEPARTMENT OF · U.S. EMBASSY CANBERRA3 notices
- Regional Arts Development Fund3 notices
- Nillumbik Shire Council2 notices
Other months
Method: counts are notices first published in the month, by the buyer's country, across all sources FreeTender reads. Bid window means days from publication to the deadline. Coverage grows as we add sources, so part of any rise can be new coverage rather than new demand. You may quote these figures with a link to this page. The underlying rows are in our open dataset.