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728 personnel and ICT services contracts worth $669.7m were awarded in Aug 2026. Every figure here is derived from published AusTender contract notices, under CC BY 3.0 AU.
Personnel & labour hire
$152.5m
440 contracts in Aug 2026
Contracts where a buyer is buying people.
ICT services
$517.2m
288 contracts in Aug 2026
Computer services, cloud and IT consulting.
Awarded value by month
7,205 contracts · $3.6b in the last 12 months 22.4% vs the previous 12 months
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.
- Personnel4,53863.0%
- ICT services2,66737.0%
Largest suppliers by awarded value
Biggest buyers by awarded value
- Department of Defence$1.2b1856 contracts
- Services Australia$789.2m699 contracts
- Department of Health, Disability and Ageing$568.8m1120 contracts
- Department of Home Affairs$375.9m461 contracts
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade$333.4m555 contracts
- Australian Digital Health Agency$299.6m264 contracts
- Australian Signals Directorate$287.1m528 contracts
- Australian Electoral Commission$206.7m369 contracts
- Australian Taxation Office$182.2m389 contracts
- CSIRO$140.1m88 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 |
| 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 |
| CN4271042 | Data#3 | Department of Finance | ict | $56,816,425 |
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: 13,820 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 (6,378 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 22 Sept 2026, and the window runs 1 Aug 2024 – 1 Aug 2026.
Category labels are resolved from Finance's AusTender customised UNSPSC codeset, generated rather than typed.