/austender/tenders/search

POST /api/austender/tenders/search

Price: 20 credits

Search AusTender contract notices — awarded Australian Government contracts and their amendments — by keyword, contract notice id, date window, agency, supplier name or ABN, value range, approach to market id, agency reference and UNSPSC segment, with the agency, supplier, value, dates and category of each notice.

How to use it

Amendments come back as their own rows with an id such as CN4072539-A2 beside the original CN4072539, so group by notice_id when you need contracts rather than notices. Narrow a broad query with a date window before paging deep. Pass the notice_id of a row to austender/tenders for the OCDS record with the supplier ABN, procurement method and contract period; a notice old enough to have no OCDS release answers 412 there — its url is the fallback.

Parameters

• access-token string required

Request body

• timeout integer — Max scrapping execution timeout (in seconds) (default: 300; min: 20; max: 1500)
• count integer required — Max number of results (min: 1; max: 750)
• keyword string nullable — Words to match in the notice (examples: "software licence"; minLength: 1)
• keyword_mode string — How the keyword words are matched (default: "all"; one of: "all", "any", "exact")
• tender_id string nullable — Contract notice id (examples: "CN4277773", "CN4072539-A2"; minLength: 1)
• date_type string — Which date date_from and date_to apply to, or the current/closed state of the contract (default: "published"; one of: "current", "closed", "published", "start", "end", "executed")
• date_from string nullable — Earliest date, inclusive (examples: "2026-09-01")
• date_to string nullable — Latest date, inclusive (examples: "2026-09-15")
• agencies array nullable — Publishing agencies, by name or agency UUID (examples: ["Department of Defence"], ["0ec98ef9-e020-5da9-dcb1-0135be81bd2b"]; minItems: 1)
• include_retired_agencies boolean — Whether notices of retired, renamed or restructured agencies are included (default: true)
• supplier_name string nullable — Supplier name or part of it (examples: "HUDSON AUST"; minLength: 1)
• supplier_abn string nullable — Supplier Australian Business Number (examples: "12701364623")
• value_min number nullable — Minimum contract value in AUD (examples: 1000000; min: 0)
• value_max number nullable — Maximum contract value in AUD (examples: 2000000; min: 0)
• atm_id string nullable — Approach to market id the contract came from (examples: "DTA-ICT-50582"; minLength: 1)
• agency_reference_id string nullable — Agency's own reference id of the contract (examples: "5700027538"; minLength: 1)
• category string nullable — UNSPSC segment of the contract (one of: "apparel_and_luggage_and_personal_care_products", "building_and_construction_machinery_and_accessories", "building_and_construction_and_maintenance_services", "chemicals_including_bio_chemicals_and_gas_materials", "cleaning_equipment_and_supplies", "commercial_and_military_and_private_vehicles_and_their_accessories_and_components", "defence_and_law_enforcement_and_security_and_safety_equipment_and_supplies", "distribution_and_conditioning_systems_and_equipment_and_components", "domestic_appliances_and_supplies_and_consumer_electronic_products", "drugs_and_pharmaceutical_products", "editorial_and_design_and_graphic_and_fine_art_services", "education_and_training_services", "electrical_systems_and_lighting_and_components_and_accessories_and_supplies", "electronic_components_and_supplies", "engineering_and_research_and_technology_based_services", "environmental_services", "farming_and_fishing_and_forestry_and_wildlife_contracting_services", "farming_and_fishing_and_forestry_and_wildlife_machinery_and_accessories", "financial_and_insurance_services", "food_and_beverage_products", "fuels_and_fuel_additives_and_lubricants_and_anti_corrosive_materials", "furniture_and_furnishings", "healthcare_services", "industrial_cleaning_services", "industrial_manufacturing_and_processing_machinery_and_accessories", "industrial_production_and_manufacturing_services", "information_technology_broadcasting_and_telecommunications", "laboratory_and_measuring_and_observing_and_testing_equipment", "land_and_buildings_and_structures_and_throughfares", "live_plant_and_animal_material_and_accessories_and_supplies", "management_and_business_professionals_and_administrative_services", "manufacturing_components_and_supplies", "material_handling_and_conditioning_and_storage_machinery_and_their_accessories_and_supplies", "medical_equipment_and_accessories_and_supplies", "mineral_and_textile_and_inedible_plant_and_animal_materials", "mining_and_well_drilling_machinery_and_accessories", "mining_and_oil_and_gas_services", "musical_instruments_and_games_and_toys_and_arts_and_crafts_and_educational_equipment", "national_defence_and_public_order_and_security_and_safety_services", "office_equipment_and_accessories_and_supplies", "organisations_and_clubs", "paper_materials_and_products", "personal_and_domestic_services", "politics_and_civic_affairs_services", "power_generation_and_distribution_machinery_and_accessories", "printing_and_photographic_and_audio_and_visual_equipment_and_supplies", "public_utilities_and_public_sector_related_services", "published_products", "resin_and_rosin_and_rubber_and_foam_and_film_and_elastomeric_materials", "service_industry_machinery_and_equipment_and_supplies", "sports_and_recreational_equipment_and_supplies_and_accessories", "structures_and_building_and_construction_and_manufacturing_components_and_supplies", "timepieces_and_jewellery_and_gemstone_products", "tools_and_general_machinery", "transportation_and_storage_and_mail_services", "travel_and_food_and_lodging_and_entertainment_services")
• consultancy boolean nullable — Whether the contract is flagged as a consultancy
• order string — Result order (default: "relevance"; one of: "relevance", "last_updated", "title", "agency", "published", "value", "category")

Response

• @type string (default: "AustenderTenderSummary")
• id string required
• notice_id string required
• guid string required
• amends_id string nullable
• amends_url string nullable
• buyer object nullable
  • @type string (default: "AustenderPartyRef")
  • id string nullable
  • name string nullable
• supplier object nullable
  • @type string (default: "AustenderPartyRef")
  • id string nullable
  • name string nullable
• published_date string nullable
• executed_date string nullable
• category string nullable
• period object nullable
  • @type string (default: "AustenderDateRange")
  • start_date string nullable
  • end_date string nullable
• value object nullable
  • @type string (default: "AustenderValue")
  • amount number nullable
  • currency string nullable
• atm_id string nullable
• updated_at integer nullable
• country string (default: "AU")
• url string required

Errors

• 422 — An agency name is not in the AusTender agency list, or a date range was given with date_type current or closed Check the fields against this schema. A URN with the wrong prefix is the most common cause.
• 408 — The request ran past its time limit Raise `timeout` in the request body, up to the maximum this endpoint documents. Lowering `count` or turning off the `with_*` flags also helps, because less work finishes sooner.
• 412 — The entity was not found, or a precondition failed Retrying will not help: either the entity does not exist, or the input points at a different one.
• 429 — Too many requests: a rate limit or a usage window is exhausted When the response carries an X-Retry-After header, wait that many seconds and retry: the same number is in the body as `detail.retry_after`, and the limit clears once that window passes. The message in the body names the limit that was hit.
• 500 — Something broke on our side Retrying will not help. If it keeps happening, send us the X-Request-ID from the response headers.
• 529 — Rate limit reached, or the endpoint is overloaded Wait at least 30 seconds, then retry.

Response headers

• X-Error — Error message text (present only on error)
• X-Request-ID — Unique request identifier
• X-Execution-Time — Execution time in seconds
• X-Result-Count — How many records the body carries. 0 means an empty result, which is a normal answer and not by itself an error. A non-zero count can come back together with X-Error when the failure happened partway through — read this header and X-Error independently.
• X-Total-Available-Results — How many records exist for this query, when the endpoint can say. On a `dry_run` request this is the answer and the body is empty. It saturates: the endpoint's documented maximum means 'at least that many', any smaller number is exact.
• X-Warning — Present when the request body carried keys this endpoint does not document. They were ignored, so any filter you meant to apply through them did not apply. Check the spelling against this schema and retry.
• X-Retry-After — Seconds to wait before retrying. Present only on 429.