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690 personnel and ICT services contracts worth $352.9m were awarded in Oct 2026. Every figure here is derived from published AusTender contract notices, under CC BY 3.0 AU.
Contracts awarded
690
Oct 2026
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Total awarded
$352.9m
Oct 2026
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Personnel & labour hire
$172.5m
476 contracts in Oct 2026
Contracts where a buyer is buying people.
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ICT services
$180.4m
214 contracts in Oct 2026
Computer services, cloud and IT consulting.
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Awarded value by month
7,476 contracts · $3.7b in the last 12 months 24.9% vs the previous 12 months
June and July carry the end-of-financial-year signing peak, published as the new year opens — it repeats every year, and August settles back, so read the annual peak as seasonal rather than as a change in spending.
Personnel versus ICT services
Most of the value in this slice is ICT services, but most of the contracts are for people — which is why the two are reported separately rather than as one number.
- Personnel4,77063.8%
- ICT services2,70636.2%
Largest suppliers by awarded value
- IBM Australia Ltd$463.2m69 contracts
- SAP AUSTRALIA PTY LTD$295.3m95 contracts
- ORACLE CORPORATION AUSTRALIA PTY LIMITED$291.4m197 contracts
- Data#3 Limited$286.3m276 contracts
- CANBERRA DATA CENTRES PTY LTD$282.0m44 contracts
- ACCENTURE AUSTRALIA LTD$258.9m35 contracts
- TELSTRA LIMITED$251.0m579 contracts
- HAYS SPECIALIST RECRUITMENT (AUST)$238.0m1177 contracts
- LEIDOS AUSTRALIA PTY LIMITED$211.8m70 contracts
- AMAZON WEB SERVICES AUSTRALIA P/L$186.5m50 contracts
Biggest buyers by awarded value
- Department of Defence$1.6b2765 contracts
- Services Australia$899.0m928 contracts
- Department of Health, Disability and Ageing$694.0m1676 contracts
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade$496.3m718 contracts
- Department of Home Affairs$425.9m655 contracts
- Australian Signals Directorate$425.7m755 contracts
- Australian Digital Health Agency$390.2m406 contracts
- Digital Transformation Agency$290.3m116 contracts
- Australian Electoral Commission$233.1m467 contracts
- Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry$228.2m764 contracts
Largest contracts
| Notice | Supplier | Buyer | Category | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN4126777 | Canberra Data Centres Pty Ltd | Services Australia | ict | $226,160,000 |
| CN4178593 | Datacom Connect Pty Ltd | Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade | personnel | $175,949,118 |
| CN4074280 | SAP Australia | Digital Transformation Agency | ict | $166,994,735 |
| CN4120716 | IBM AUSTRALIA LTD | Department of Home Affairs | ict | $165,000,000 |
| CN4273297 | Accenture Australia Pty Ltd | Australian Digital Health Agency | ict | $161,556,495 |
| CN4244063 | IBM Australia Ltd | Services Australia | ict | $109,381,053 |
| CN4271829 | LEIDOS AUSTRALIA PTY LIMITED | Department of Health, Disability and Ageing | ict | $90,859,291 |
| CN4161636 | The University of Melbourne | Department of Social Services | ict | $71,995,116 |
| CN4127624 | TELSTRA LIMITED | Services Australia | ict | $65,701,259 |
| CN4153669 | Amazon Web Services Australia Pty Ltd | Digital Transformation Agency | ict | $64,758,489 |
Where these numbers come from
Source: AusTender contract notices, via the Department of Finance's Open Contracting Data Standard API (api.tenders.gov.au/ocds), licensed CC BY 3.0 AU. AusTender material is subject to change and should be verified at the official source.
Scope: 20,333 notices covering personnel (temporary personnel services, personnel recruitment) and ICT services (computer services, cloud, IT consulting). Hardware, leases and everything else government buys are excluded, so these are not whole-of-government figures.
Counting: amendments are excluded (12,117 in this window) so a variation is not reported as a new award. Dates are the contract notice publication date. The newest notice we hold was published 6 Nov 2026, and the window runs 1 Nov 2023 – 1 Oct 2026.
Category labels are resolved from Finance's AusTender customised UNSPSC codeset, generated rather than typed.