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Who just won — and what's newly open this week
The federal government awarded more than $400 million in contracts in the past fortnight. Here's who won, and the new tenders following the money.
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Most tender roundups only tell you what is open. This one starts with who just got paid — because federal contract award notices are the clearest signal of where government money is actually flowing. The AskTender dataset now holds 339,399 awards worth over $406 billion, and the past fortnight alone produced some very large numbers.
There are also 647 open tenders across the country right now, so after the awards we cover what is newly open in Queensland, WA, Tasmania and the federal market.
The week's biggest federal contract awards
The single largest notice of the fortnight is a property lease for the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, awarded to Growthpoint Properties Australia at $133.5 million — a long-running lease arrangement recorded on 18 July.
Defence follows close behind. Systematic Software Engineering Australia picked up a $98.1 million software contract with the Department of Defence, running to mid-2031, and BAE Systems Australia recorded a $35 million in-service support contract on 22 July. Thales Australia added a $28.3 million weapons contract on 13 July. None of this is surprising — Defence accounts for roughly $208 billion of the total federal award history — but the steady cadence of support and sustainment contracts is exactly the layer of the Defence market that mid-tier suppliers can realistically reach.
The end-of-financial-year software surge
Look at the contract start dates on this fortnight's ICT awards and a pattern jumps out: almost all of them commenced on 30 June 2026. This is the annual end-of-financial-year licensing wave, and the winners are familiar names.
Data#3 won twice: a $77 million Microsoft licence and Azure cloud services arrangement for the Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications, Sport and the Arts, and a $51.3 million Microsoft licensing contract for the Australian Bureau of Statistics — both five-year terms to 2031. VMware Australia recorded a $60.9 million software subscription with the Department of Home Affairs. Accenture Australia took a $38.8 million cloud-based ERP products contract, also for the Infrastructure department, and DXC Technology a $31.4 million IT support contract with DFAT. Even printing got a look in: Fujifilm Business Innovation won a $26.1 million printer software solution with Services Australia over five years.
That is more than $280 million of IT and ICT spend committed in a fortnight, most of it locked in for five years. If you sell technology to government, the reseller and licensing layer is where the biggest cheques are written — and award history like this tells you which incumbents you are really bidding against.
New federal tenders open now
The open side of the federal market is smaller but has one genuine headline: LAND 4140 Tactical Communications Network — Tactical Edge Radio, from Defence's Capability Acquisition and Sustainment Group, closing 4 September 2026. Given what the award data above shows about Defence sustainment spending, the long lead time on this one is worth using.
Two smaller notices close much sooner: the Charles Perkins House Lighting Upgrade for the National Indigenous Australians Agency closes 29 July — a tidy package for electrical contractors — and DFAT is seeking services to support the Australia–Indonesia Leadership Dialogue 2026, closing 3 August.
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Queensland: electrical, fitout and roads
Queensland remains the high-volume jurisdiction, with 1,742 tenders in the dataset. Newly published opportunities lean electrical and construction this week.
The Queensland Parliament's Parliamentary Service is running an Electorate Office Security System and EACS Upgrade Project covering offices statewide, closing 27 August. QBuild has Toowoomba TAFE switchboard upgrades closing 12 August and a trade contract for arboriculture services closing 4 August. Legal Aid Queensland wants a design and construct contractor for its Brisbane workplace strategy design and fitout, closing 5 August, and the Department of Transport and Main Roads has 2026-27 asphalt prior works in the Darling Downs district closing 10 August — a solid regional construction package.
WA and Tasmania: a building pipeline forming
In Western Australia, the Department of Housing and Works has released a cluster of school construction packages: a new sports hall and sports science centre at Belridge Secondary College, forward works at Alkimos North Senior High School and Byford North Primary School 2029, and a new administration building at Parkwood Primary School. Outside education, the Perth Central Law Courts fire sprinkler mains replacement and a wastewater treatment plant for the Acacia Prison expansion stand out, while Water Corporation has opened its 2026 Professional Engineering Design Services Panel — the kind of panel that feeds consultancies work for years.
Tasmania's pipeline is unusually rich for its size. Forward opportunities include a new police station and residence at Rosebery, BMS and HVAC upgrades at Risdon Prison, the North West Support School's new Devonport campus and Burnie redevelopment, the East Derwent Primary School redevelopment, and an MRI scanner for the Launceston General Hospital medical imaging department. For builders and services firms willing to work in a smaller market, this is a genuine multi-year pipeline announced in one hit.
The pattern worth noticing
Two lessons from this week's data. First, award notices lag the decision but lead the market: the June-July licensing surge happens every year, which means the procurement conversations happen in autumn. If you want to be in next year's round, the work starts now, not in June.
Second, the open tenders and the awards tell the same story from opposite ends. Defence is awarding sustainment contracts while opening LAND 4140; the states are pushing school and justice construction while WA and Tasmania publish forward pipelines. Reading both sides together is how you position early instead of reacting late.
See these in your own AI
Every award value and closing date above came straight out of the AskTender dataset. Ask the same questions in plain English — "who won federal ICT contracts this month?" — inside ChatGPT or Claude. Roundups like this publish every Tuesday and Thursday.