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718 personnel and ICT services contracts worth $496.3m, awarded to 320 suppliers. ABN 47065634525

Foreign Affairs and Trade portfolio · Primary body · about 6.1k staff (2022) · head office ACT · Also published as Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade - Australian Aid Program.

Nov 2023: $804.7k — 6 contractsDec 2023: $1.4m — 14 contractsJan 2024: $986.9k — 7 contractsFeb 2024: $1.2m — 7 contractsMar 2024: $2.5m — 13 contractsApr 2024: $2.6m — 14 contractsMay 2024: $2.7m — 10 contractsJun 2024: $143.2m — 24 contractsJul 2024: $3.5m — 27 contractsAug 2024: $5.6m — 24 contractsSep 2024: $1.8m — 16 contractsOct 2024: $5.8m — 13 contractsNov 2024: $5.1m — 22 contractsDec 2024: $2.3m — 13 contractsJan 2025: $1.5m — 13 contractsFeb 2025: $1.3m — 9 contractsMar 2025: $2.5m — 15 contractsApr 2025: $2.9m — 11 contractsMay 2025: $3.2m — 15 contractsJun 2025: $1.9m — 13 contractsJul 2025: $736.7k — 9 contractsAug 2025: $179.9m — 17 contractsSep 2025: $5.0m — 12 contractsOct 2025: $2.6m — 13 contractsNov 2025: $3.9m — 16 contractsDec 2025: $9.8m — 23 contractsJan 2026: $1.5m — 6 contractsFeb 2026: $3.6m — 14 contractsMar 2026: $5.6m — 31 contractsApr 2026: $6.7m — 25 contractsMay 2026: $12.5m — 44 contractsJun 2026: $6.6m — 28 contractsJul 2026: $14.2m — 49 contractsAug 2026: $8.9m — 52 contractsSep 2026: $21.9m — 54 contractsOct 2026: $14.4m — 36 contractsNov 2023Oct 2026
Contract notices published, 1 Nov 2023 – 1 Oct 2026

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

  • Personnel45763.6%
  • ICT services26136.4%

Who they buy from

  1. Datacom Connect Pty Ltd$175.9m1 contract
  2. Randstad Pty Ltd$52.6m9 contracts
  3. Hays Specialist Recruitment (Australia) Pty Ltd$23.9m38 contracts
  4. ADECCO AUSTRALIA PTY LTD$22.5m4 contracts
  5. HUDSON GLOBAL RESOURCES (AUST) PTY LTD$19.0m11 contracts
  6. McArthur Management Services$16.6m1 contract
  7. PERSOLKELLY Australia Pty Ltd$13.7m1 contract
  8. MTP Services Pty Ltd$13.4m50 contracts
  9. CyberCx Pty Ltd$10.9m9 contracts
  10. HORIZON ONE RECRUITMENT PTY LTD$6.1m26 contracts
  11. Slalom Australia Pty Ltd$5.6m1 contract
  12. Neoteric Consulting Pty Ltd$5.5m1 contract
  13. Compas Pty Ltd$5.0m14 contracts
  14. The Recruitment Hive Pty Ltd$4.6m14 contracts
  15. Projects Assured$4.6m1 contract
  16. Penten Pty Ltd trading as PentenAmi$4.4m1 contract
  17. Corroboree Talent Limited$3.8m12 contracts
  18. CDTS Australia Pty Ltd$3.3m1 contract
  19. KPMG$3.2m4 contracts
  20. M & T Resources Pty Ltd 27132349458$2.8m7 contracts
  21. The Westbourne Group Pty Ltd$2.7m1 contract
  22. Whizdom Pty Ltd$2.6m8 contracts
  23. Peoplebank Australia Ltd$2.6m7 contracts
  24. Etisalat$2.4m2 contracts
  25. HiTech Group Australia Limited$2.2m7 contracts

Roles being recruited for now

Live roles advertised by the firms above. Each is listed against this agency because the ad was matched to one of its open tenders — not because the ad names it, which recruiters rarely disclose. The contract a role ultimately serves is not identifiable from the ad.

  1. 1 Senior Business AnalystcompasbaselineCanberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia$5.0m14 contracts
  2. Lead SQL Database Administratorcompasnv1Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia$5.0m14 contracts
  3. Multiple Principal Software Engineerscompasnv2Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia$5.0m14 contracts
  4. Systems AnalystcompasbaselineCanberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia$5.0m14 contracts
  5. SAP Business Analystcompasnv2Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia$5.0m14 contracts
  6. Business Analystscompasnv1Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia$5.0m14 contracts
  7. Program Managercompasnv1Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia$5.0m14 contracts
  8. Cyber Security SMEcompasnv1Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia$5.0m14 contracts
  9. Multiple Developerscompasnv1Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia$5.0m14 contracts
  10. Systems Analystcompasnv1Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia$5.0m14 contracts
  11. Senior Cloud Solution EngineerwhizdomInformation & Communication Technology (ICT)nv2Canberra, Australia$2.6m8 contracts
  12. Lead Systems EngineerwhizdomInformation & Communication Technology (ICT)nv2Canberra, Australia$2.6m8 contracts
  13. Senior Service DesignerchandlermacleodInformation TechnologyCanberra, Australia$1.3m7 contracts
  14. Cyber Security Engineertalentdefencenv2ACT$1.1m4 contracts
  15. Service DesignerdfpCanberra$399.3k11 contracts

Largest contracts

PublishedNoticeSupplierCategoryEndsValue
8 Aug 2025CN4178593Datacom Connect Pty LtdTemporary personnel services3 July 2030$175,949,118
13 June 2024CN4064426Randstad Pty LtdTemporary personnel services30 June 2027$52,334,805
13 June 2024CN4064428ADECCO AUSTRALIA PTY LTDTemporary personnel services30 June 2027$19,544,703
13 June 2024CN4064430McArthur Management ServicesTemporary personnel services30 June 2027$16,631,548
13 June 2024CN4064427Hays Specialist Recruitment (Australia) Pty LtdTemporary personnel services30 June 2027$15,171,605
13 June 2024CN4064432Hudson Global Resources (Aust) P/LTemporary personnel services30 June 2027$14,999,082
21 June 2024CN4068511PERSOLKELLY Australia Pty LtdTemporary personnel services30 June 2027$13,688,421
21 June 2024CN4068510CyberCx Pty LtdComputer services30 June 2027$7,700,000
27 Oct 2026CN4284847Slalom Australia Pty LtdTemporary personnel services18 Oct 2029$5,591,238
4 Nov 2026CN4286801Neoteric Consulting Pty LtdTemporary personnel services21 Oct 2028$5,500,000
24 Oct 2024CN4103655Projects AssuredComputer services31 Mar 2027$4,554,000
19 Dec 2025CN4210660Penten Pty Ltd trading as PentenAmiTemporary personnel services11 Dec 2028$4,388,069
8 Sept 2026CN4275252CDTS Australia Pty LtdSoftware as a Service (SaaS – Cloud)31 Aug 2029$3,289,255
28 Aug 2025CN4183780The Westbourne Group Pty LtdComputer services17 Aug 2028$2,745,857
8 Sept 2026CN4275264ETHAN INDIGENOUS PTY LTDTemporary personnel services31 Aug 2029$2,171,114
2 Sept 2025CN4185078EtisalatInternet services30 Apr 2026$2,069,595
29 Aug 2024CN4091522ADECCO AUSTRALIA PTY LTDTemporary personnel services30 June 2027$1,980,000
2 Sept 2025CN4185076Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company PJSCInternet services30 Apr 2026$1,887,622
25 May 2024CN4058295Hays Specialist Recruitment (Australia) Pty LtdPersonnel recruitment31 Dec 2026$1,692,342
16 Apr 2025CN4144857Hudson Global Resources (Aust) P/LTemporary personnel services31 Oct 2027$1,456,538
9 June 2026CN4247986Integral Technology Solutions Pty LTemporary personnel services2 June 2027$1,234,666
28 Nov 2025CN4205018CyberCx Pty LtdInfrastructure as a Service (IaaS – Cloud)11 Sept 2026$1,180,740
13 Mar 2025CN4134419KPMGTemporary personnel services30 June 2025$1,147,104
7 Sept 2026CN4274629HUDSON GLOBAL RESOURCES (AUST) PTY LTDPersonnel recruitment1 Nov 2028$1,114,512
6 Nov 2025CN4199802CyberCx Pty LtdTemporary personnel services30 June 2026$890,450
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Method and source

Source: AusTender contract notices via the Department of Finance's Open Contracting Data Standard API, licensed CC BY 3.0 AU. AusTender material is subject to change — verify any notice at the official source.

Grouped by the buyer name recorded on each notice. Personnel and ICT services notices only, published since 1 Nov 2023; amendments excluded so a variation is not counted as a new award. A buyer may report the same engagement across several notices.

Live roles come from the firms' own career sites and LinkedIn, never from Seek. An ad is shown here when it was matched to one of this agency's tenders and the advertising firm holds a contract with the agency — so the link is between a firm and a client, not between a role and a contract. Matches the matcher rated low-confidence are excluded.