/austender/tenders

POST /api/austender/tenders

Price: 5 credits

Get one AusTender contract notice by its CN id as its OCDS releases — the original contract and one release per amendment — each with the agency, the supplier with ABN and address, the value, the contract period, the UNSPSC classification, the procurement method and any limited-tender exemption.

How to use it

A bare CN id returns every release of the notice, newest last, so the last row is the current state of an amended contract; an amendment id such as CN4072539-A2 returns that amendment alone. The url of a row is the notice page on tenders.gov.au, which itself is not an accepted input.

Parameters

• access-token string required

Request body

• timeout integer — Max scrapping execution timeout (in seconds) (default: 300; min: 20; max: 1500)
• tender string required — Contract notice id (examples: "CN4277773", "CN4072539-A2"; minLength: 1)

Response

• @type string (default: "AustenderTender")
• id string required
• notice_id string required
• amendment_id string nullable
• release_id string required
• ocid string required
• tags array (default: [])
• status string nullable
• buyer object nullable
  • @type string (default: "AustenderParty")
  • id string required
  • name string nullable
  • roles array (default: [])
  • abn string nullable
  • identifiers array (default: [])
    • @type string (default: "AustenderIdentifier")
    • scheme string nullable
    • id string nullable
  • address object nullable
    • @type string (default: "AustenderAddress")
    • street string nullable
    • locality string nullable
    • region string nullable
    • postal_code string nullable
    • country_name string nullable
  • contact object nullable
    • @type string (default: "AustenderContact")
    • name string nullable
    • email string nullable
    • telephone string nullable
    • branch string nullable
    • division string nullable
• suppliers array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "AustenderParty")
  • id string required
  • name string nullable
  • roles array (default: [])
  • abn string nullable
  • identifiers array (default: [])
    • @type string (default: "AustenderIdentifier")
    • scheme string nullable
    • id string nullable
  • address object nullable
    • @type string (default: "AustenderAddress")
    • street string nullable
    • locality string nullable
    • region string nullable
    • postal_code string nullable
    • country_name string nullable
  • contact object nullable
    • @type string (default: "AustenderContact")
    • name string nullable
    • email string nullable
    • telephone string nullable
    • branch string nullable
    • division string nullable
• value object nullable
  • @type string (default: "AustenderValue")
  • amount number nullable
  • currency string nullable
• dates object nullable
  • @type string (default: "AustenderDates")
  • published_at integer nullable
  • awarded_at integer nullable
  • signed_at integer nullable
  • start_at integer nullable
  • end_at integer nullable
• category object nullable
  • @type string (default: "AustenderClassification")
  • scheme string nullable
  • code string required
• procurement object nullable
  • @type string (default: "AustenderProcurement")
  • tender_id string nullable
  • method string nullable
  • method_details string nullable
  • limited_tender_exempt string nullable
  • limited_tender_reason_code string nullable
  • limited_tender_reason string nullable
  • exemption_code string nullable
  • exemption string nullable
• awards array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "AustenderAward")
  • id string required
  • status string nullable
  • awarded_at integer nullable
  • suppliers array (default: [])
    • @type string (default: "AustenderPartyRef")
    • id string nullable
    • name string nullable
• contracts array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "AustenderContract")
  • id string required
  • award_id string nullable
  • agency_reference_id string nullable
  • description string nullable
  • status string nullable
  • signed_at integer nullable
  • period object nullable
    • @type string (default: "AustenderPeriod")
    • start_at integer nullable
    • end_at integer nullable
  • value object nullable
    • @type string (default: "AustenderValue")
    • amount number nullable
    • currency string nullable
  • line_items array (default: [])
    • @type string (default: "AustenderItem")
    • id string required
    • classification object nullable (see schema AustenderClassification)
  • amendments array (default: [])
    • @type string (default: "AustenderAmendment")
    • id string required
    • release_id string nullable
    • amends_release_id string nullable
• parties array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "AustenderParty")
  • id string required
  • name string nullable
  • roles array (default: [])
  • abn string nullable
  • identifiers array (default: [])
    • @type string (default: "AustenderIdentifier")
    • scheme string nullable
    • id string nullable
  • address object nullable
    • @type string (default: "AustenderAddress")
    • street string nullable
    • locality string nullable
    • region string nullable
    • postal_code string nullable
    • country_name string nullable
  • contact object nullable
    • @type string (default: "AustenderContact")
    • name string nullable
    • email string nullable
    • telephone string nullable
    • branch string nullable
    • division string nullable
• language string nullable
• initiation_type string nullable
• country string (default: "AU")
• url string nullable

Errors

• 422 — The request body did not validate 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 OCDS API holds no release for this id or amendment number — the notice can still exist on AusTender itself; open the row's url from austender/tenders/search to check 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.