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113 personnel and ICT services contracts worth $147.0m, awarded to 61 suppliers. ABN 36342015855
Social Services portfolio · Primary body · about 2.2k staff (2022) · head office ACT
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
- Personnel9584.1%
- ICT services1815.9%
Who they buy from
- The University of Melbourne$72.0m1 contract
- Karlka Recruiting Group Pty Ltd$41.9m3 contracts
- Hays Specialist Recruitment (Australia) Pty Ltd$6.1m12 contracts
- Randstad Pty Ltd$3.3m3 contracts
- Palisades Australia Pty Ltd$2.0m2 contracts
- Horizon One Recruitment Pty Ltd$1.9m7 contracts
- Hudson Global Resources (Aust) Pty Ltd$1.8m6 contracts
- PI Information Pty Ltd$1.5m4 contracts
- Yardstick Advisory Pty Ltd$1.5m1 contract
- McGrathNicol Advisory Partnership$1.5m1 contract
- Department of Premier and Cabinet$1.4m1 contract
- Adecco Australia Pty Ltd$1.0m1 contract
- Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu$850.4k3 contracts
- Terrace Services Pty Ltd$710.2k3 contracts
- Capgemini Australia Pty Limited$676.4k4 contracts
- Relatbl Recruiting Pty Ltd$619.1k3 contracts
- Thinkstream Pty Ltd$529.4k1 contract
- DMV Consulting$482.1k1 contract
- Goanna Solutions Pty Ltd$474.2k2 contracts
- The Recruitment Hive Pty Ltd$464.8k1 contract
- Omaha IT Services Pty Ltd$439.7k1 contract
- Hoban Recruitment Pty Ltd$430.8k2 contracts
- Informatech Pty Ltd$382.2k1 contract
- Capital Recruit Pty Ltd$374.2k3 contracts
- Cordelta Pty Ltd$350.9k1 contract
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.
- Business ArchitecthudsonAspley QLD 4034, QLD, Australia$1.8m6 contracts
- Senior Data AnalystdfpBrisbane$147.0k2 contracts
- Cyber Security Engineertalentdefencenv2ACT$78.8k1 contract
Largest contracts
| Published | Notice | Supplier | Category | Ends | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 July 2025 | CN4161636 | The University of Melbourne | Data services | 30 June 2031 | $71,995,116 |
| 12 Feb 2025 | CN4123333 | Karlka Recruiting Group Pty Ltd | Temporary personnel services | 10 Feb 2027 | $39,697,430 |
| 16 May 2024 | CN4052586 | Hays Specialist Recruitment (Australia) Pty Ltd | Temporary personnel services | 30 June 2027 | $3,200,000 |
| 16 May 2024 | CN4052595 | Randstad Pty Ltd | Temporary personnel services | 30 June 2027 | $3,000,000 |
| 18 Sept 2024 | CN4093408 | Palisades Australia Pty Ltd | Temporary personnel services | 9 Sept 2026 | $2,000,000 |
| 16 May 2024 | CN4052598 | Karlka Recruiting Group Pty Ltd | Temporary personnel services | 30 June 2027 | $2,000,000 |
| 1 July 2024 | CN4066038 | Hudson Global Resources (Aust) Pty Ltd | Temporary personnel services | 23 June 2026 | $1,607,806 |
| 3 Sept 2026 | CN4272537 | Yardstick Advisory Pty Ltd | Temporary personnel services | 11 Sept 2028 | $1,497,080 |
| 3 Sept 2026 | CN4273061 | McGrathNicol Advisory Partnership | Temporary personnel services | 11 Sept 2028 | $1,497,080 |
| 19 Nov 2024 | CN4108874 | Department of Premier and Cabinet | Software maintenance and support | 31 Dec 2031 | $1,356,400 |
| 15 May 2024 | CN4049792 | Adecco Australia Pty Ltd | Temporary personnel services | 30 June 2027 | $1,000,000 |
| 12 Oct 2026 | CN4280065 | Hays Specialist Recruitment (Australia) Pty Ltd | Temporary personnel services | 30 June 2027 | $760,000 |
| 27 Mar 2024 | CN4042608 | Horizon One Recruitment Pty Ltd | Temporary personnel services | 30 June 2025 | $531,730 |
| 9 June 2026 | CN4243870 | Thinkstream Pty Ltd | Temporary personnel services | 26 May 2027 | $529,408 |
| 1 Mar 2024 | CN4036879 | Relatbl Recruiting Pty Ltd | Personnel recruitment | 21 June 2025 | $500,000 |
| 18 Apr 2024 | CN4046222 | Hays Specialist Recruitment (Australia) Pty Ltd | Temporary personnel services | 30 June 2025 | $498,401 |
| 21 Mar 2024 | CN4041376 | Horizon One Recruitment Pty Ltd | Temporary personnel services | 30 June 2025 | $497,424 |
| 16 June 2026 | CN4246809 | DMV Consulting | Temporary personnel services | 9 June 2027 | $482,099 |
| 1 July 2024 | CN4069243 | Hays Specialist Recruitment (Australia) Pty Ltd | Temporary personnel services | 23 June 2026 | $468,615 |
| 24 June 2026 | CN4252446 | The Recruitment Hive Pty Ltd | Temporary personnel services | 26 June 2027 | $464,794 |
| 1 Sept 2026 | CN4272907 | Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu | Temporary personnel services | 26 Feb 2027 | $460,733 |
| 15 June 2026 | CN4247340 | Terrace Services Pty Ltd | Temporary personnel services | 9 June 2027 | $454,277 |
| 12 May 2026 | CN4237482 | Omaha IT Services Pty Ltd | Temporary personnel services | 17 May 2027 | $439,725 |
| 6 Aug 2026 | CN4266407 | PI Information Pty Ltd | Temporary personnel services | 30 June 2027 | $420,000 |
| 6 Aug 2026 | CN4266411 | PI Information Pty Ltd | Temporary personnel services | 30 June 2027 | $382,536 |
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.