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erecruit links Australian Government ICT procurement records to the job ads published behind them, so a recruiter can see which contract a role belongs to, who is advertising it, and whether it is open to them.
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100% of open ICT labour-hire contracts are invitation-only
Of the 94 contracts currently open on BuyICT's ICT Labour Hire marketplace, 94 can only be answered by agencies the buyer has already invited.
- 94invitation-only100%
- 0open to all0%
- 0not stated0%
Counted, not typed
The figure beside this is recomputed from the BuyICT records every few minutes, so it moves as contracts open and close. Every contract behind it is public: /feed lists each open one with the invitation status BuyICT published, so the count can be reconstructed row by row rather than taken on trust.
The files below are a dated snapshot, generated for publication. They will not match the live figure once the open set changes, which is usually within the hour.
- Snapshot · 21 Sept 2026
- invitation-only-2026-09-21.png · 2400×1350 PNG
- invitation-only-2026-09-21-1200.png · 1200×675 PNG
- invitation-only-2026-09-21.svg · editable, restyle it to your desk
- invitation-chart.json · the numbers behind the snapshot
Mike Duffy
Mike Duffy founded erecruit, where he works daily with BuyICT procurement records and the labour-hire job ads published behind them. He writes about what the contract data shows about Australian Government ICT hiring, and is available for interview on the invitation-only finding, panel access, and how the same work is advertised twice.
- mike-duffy-headshot.jpg · 1322×1283, portrait
- mike-duffy-headshot-square.jpg · square
- mike-duffy-headshot-avatar.jpg · small
- linkedin.com/in/micduffy
The dataset
- Source
- BuyICT — Australian Government ICT labour-hire opportunities, as published by the Digital Transformation Agency.
- Coverage
- BuyICT ICT Labour Hire only — one of the eight marketplaces BuyICT publishes. The other seven are out of scope, as are the AusTender and BuyNSW records.
- Job ads
- From labour-hire agency career sites and LinkedIn. Seek is not scraped — its terms prohibit it.
- Machine-readable
- /llms.txt states the dataset, its coverage and its limits for AI systems and journalists alike.
Describing the data
Check these before filing — each one is a correction waiting to happen.
- Say “open on BuyICT”, not “open across government procurement”.
- Say counts are of contracts. A contract is not a role, and the number of roles is sometimes absent from the public notice.
- Careful with “clearances are rare”. Only a minority of notices state one, which reflects the notices rather than the market.
Every figure is regenerated by npm run stats:pack, so fresh numbers take a command rather than an email.
Other assets
Logo
- logo-512.png · 512×512
- logo-192.png · 192×192
Product
The live pages are free to capture: /feed, a buyer page, an agency page. Ask if you need supplied PNGs.