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666 personnel and ICT services contracts worth $123.3m, awarded to 117 suppliers. ABN 23964290824

Veterans' Affairs (part of the Defence Portfolio) portfolio · Primary body · about 2.2k staff (2022) · head office ACT

Nov 2023: $4.1m — 28 contractsDec 2023: $2.4m — 21 contractsJan 2024: $2.1m — 14 contractsFeb 2024: $8.3m — 53 contractsMar 2024: $698.3k — 8 contractsApr 2024: $2.0m — 19 contractsMay 2024: $926.7k — 9 contractsJun 2024: $492.8k — 7 contractsJul 2024: $6.4m — 29 contractsAug 2024: $13.9m — 57 contractsSep 2024: $4.2m — 38 contractsOct 2024: $857.2k — 7 contractsNov 2024: $4.6m — 18 contractsDec 2024: $472.5k — 4 contractsJan 2025: $759.0k — 5 contractsFeb 2025: $81.9k — 5 contractsMar 2025: $1.1m — 6 contractsApr 2025: $159.5k — 2 contractsMay 2025: $1.7m — 12 contractsJun 2025: $4.1m — 7 contractsJul 2025: $3.8m — 13 contractsAug 2025: $896.6k — 5 contractsSep 2025: $125.0k — 1 contractsOct 2025: $1.8m — 7 contractsNov 2025: $399.3k — 3 contractsDec 2025: $3.2m — 19 contractsJan 2026: $213.3k — 1 contractsFeb 2026: $232.0k — 3 contractsMar 2026: $1.4m — 11 contractsApr 2026: $8.7m — 28 contractsMay 2026: $8.8m — 47 contractsJun 2026: $10.2m — 49 contractsJul 2026: $8.5m — 49 contractsAug 2026: $8.5m — 44 contractsSep 2026: $3.4m — 16 contractsOct 2026: $2.9m — 17 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

  • Personnel62493.7%
  • ICT services426.3%

Who they buy from

  1. DFP RECRUITMENT$14.5m94 contracts
  2. HAYS SPECIALIST RECRUITMENT (AUS) P/L$13.8m72 contracts
  3. ACM HEALTHCARE$6.2m29 contracts
  4. Chandler Macleod$6.0m37 contracts
  5. SOS RECRUITMENT$4.5m30 contracts
  6. MCARTHUR (QLD) PTY LTD$4.2m33 contracts
  7. RANDSTAD PTY LTD$3.9m33 contracts
  8. CALLEO RESOURCING$3.5m22 contracts
  9. PAXUS AUS P/L$3.3m10 contracts
  10. COMPAS PTY LTD$3.3m17 contracts
  11. SFDC AUSTRALIA PTY LTD$3.2m1 contract
  12. CYOS SOLUTIONS PTY LTD$3.0m8 contracts
  13. JPS MEDICAL RECRUITMENT$2.5m11 contracts
  14. Ember Advisors Pty Ltd$2.4m5 contracts
  15. FACE2FACE RECRUITMENT PTY LTD$2.0m16 contracts
  16. Halcyon Knights Pty Ltd$1.9m9 contracts
  17. REALLY AWESOME PEOPLE PTY LTD$1.8m6 contracts
  18. HUDSON GLOBAL RESOURCES (AUST) PTY LTD$1.8m14 contracts
  19. TAYLOR FRY PTY LTD$1.6m2 contracts
  20. CANBERRA CONSULTING PTY LTD$1.4m7 contracts
  21. TALENT INTERNATIONAL HOLDINGS$1.3m4 contracts
  22. AKKODIS AUSTRALIA TALENT PTY LTD$1.3m6 contracts
  23. EXCELERATED CONSULTING$1.2m1 contract
  24. ADPT CONSULTING PTY LTD$1.2m4 contracts
  25. ENCORE IT SERVICES P/L$1.1m3 contracts

Largest contracts

PublishedNoticeSupplierCategoryEndsValue
9 June 2025CN4156410SFDC AUSTRALIA PTY LTDSoftware as a Service (SaaS – Cloud)13 Oct 2026$3,211,056
23 Apr 2026CN4234506Ember Advisors Pty LtdTemporary personnel services30 June 2027$1,980,000
5 May 2026CN4237796TAYLOR FRY PTY LTDTemporary personnel services24 July 2027$1,540,000
15 July 2025CN4170394EXCELERATED CONSULTINGSoftware maintenance and support1 July 2026$1,160,000
28 Nov 2024CN4111177HENDERSON HEALTHCARETemporary personnel services6 Dec 2024$812,375
19 Dec 2025CN4210165ACENDREPersonnel recruitment31 Dec 2030$809,363
28 Nov 2024CN4111172ACM HEALTHCARETemporary personnel services26 Sept 2025$787,000
16 Apr 2026CN4233036KPMGTemporary personnel services14 July 2027$660,000
5 Aug 2024CN4085575Tesserent Cyber Services P/LComputer services9 June 2025$637,560
27 Oct 2025CN4197387DEPARTMENT OF DEFENCE- BUSINESS SVCSPersonnel recruitment23 July 2026$625,000
20 Nov 2023CN4017223HAYS SPECIALIST RECRUITMENT (AUST) P/LTemporary personnel services30 June 2024$605,520
22 July 2024CN4081336ATHENA SOFTWARESoftware maintenance and support1 June 2025$604,585
9 June 2026CN4247570TALENT INTERNATIONAL HOLDINGSTemporary personnel services4 Mar 2027$583,000
20 Apr 2026CN4233529CALLEO RESOURCINGTemporary personnel services2 Apr 2027$539,000
25 Mar 2025CN4137640MCARTHUR (QLD) PTY LTDTemporary personnel services12 Apr 2024$531,397
12 Aug 2024CN4087447PAXUS AUS P/LPersonnel recruitment30 June 2025$495,000
28 Nov 2024CN4111187CHANDLER MACLEODTemporary personnel services20 June 2025$485,000
28 Nov 2024CN4111186JPS MEDICAL RECRUITMENTTemporary personnel services7 Mar 2025$485,000
20 Nov 2023CN4017222HUDSON GLOBAL RESOURCES (AUST) P/LPersonnel recruitment30 June 2024$483,200
15 July 2025CN4170456CLICKS RECRUIT (AUSTRALIA) PTY LTDTemporary personnel services30 June 2026$452,000
9 Sept 2026CN4275282Nightjar Creative Pty LtdInformation technology consultation services31 Aug 2027$451,000
27 July 2026CN4264304ONPOINT 365Temporary personnel services22 July 2028$448,617
25 Aug 2025CN4182626PROGRAMSPACE PTY LTDTemporary personnel services28 July 2026$442,750
9 July 2026CN4259743ACM HEALTHCARETemporary personnel services7 July 2028$440,427
28 Aug 2026CN4272585DFP RECRUITMENTTemporary personnel services9 Sept 2028$439,296

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.