Still Time to Bid: The Government Tenders Closing 14–15 September 2026

There are 722 open government tenders across Australia as of 9 September 2026, and 255 of them close within the next fortnight. Plenty of those are already out of reach — anything closing inside 48 hours is realistically too late to start a fresh bid. So this roundup takes a different cut: the tenders closing Monday 14 and Tuesday 15 September, where five days is still enough to request documents, price the job and lodge a response. Here is what is genuinely still biddable, jurisdiction by jurisdiction.

Queensland: a motorway EOI and steady operational work

The headline is the EOI - ETI for Construction of Coomera Connector Stage 2 Pimpama to Coomera, from the Department of Transport and Main Roads (South Coast), closing 14 September. Coomera Connector is one of the biggest road programs in south-east Queensland, and the Stage 2 expression of interest is where the field of head contractors gets set — civil subcontractors should be watching who registers as closely as head contractors watch the EOI itself.

Around it sits a spread of very biddable operational work: QBuild pre-paint repairs and external painting at Charters Towers State High (closes 14 September), an Expression of Interest for the Mount Peter Sewer Rising Main from Economic Development Queensland (14 September), and Health Infrastructure Queensland's QEII Hospital Expansion — General Art Opportunities ROI (14 September). The most unusual entry: Queensland Police Service wants the Provision of Meals to Watch-houses, closing 14 September — long-running catering work most food businesses never think to look for. Browse the full state pipeline on our QLD tenders page.

New South Wales: corrections, schools and health equipment

The NSW Department of Communities and Justice is buying Education and Vocational Training Services for CSNSW (closes 14 September) — a substantial human-services contract for training providers willing to work inside the corrections system. School Infrastructure has Kingsgrove North High School — Automated Carpark Gates closing the same day, a neatly scoped job for construction and access-control contractors.

On 15 September the health cluster closes: HealthShare NSW's SOA for Operating Theatre Part B Mobile Equipment, Maintenance and associated Consumables and its Transitional Aged Care Program, plus Health Infrastructure's Rouse Hill Hospital Curatorial Arts Consultant EOI. Essential Energy also has an RFI for Fire Safety Services closing 15 September — an early-stage door into a network operator's supply chain. See everything live on the NSW tenders page.

Victoria: panels and statewide road maintenance

Victoria's 14 September closings lean toward recurring work rather than one-off jobs. V/Line is assembling a Traffic Management Services Panel, and the Department of Transport and Planning has the 26/27 Statewide High Pressure Water Retexturing program — annual road-surface work with statewide reach. Sunraysia Institute of TAFE needs a Main Switchboard Replacement at its Mildura campus, a well-defined electrical package, while the Shrine of Remembrance Trustees close their 2026 Cleaning Services tender and North East Water closes Debt Recovery Services. More on the VIC tenders page.

WA and federal: from candidate systems to COP31

Western Australia's 14–15 September closings include Murdoch University's Medical Consumables and Medications supply tender, the Metropolitan Cemeteries Board's Mausoleum Painting at Karrakatta Cemetery, and Lotterywest's Provision of an On-Line Candidate Management System — a genuine IT and software opportunity. The most memorable listing in the country belongs to Perth Zoo, which needs a supplier to Collect and Supply Termites to Help Save WA's Numbats, closing 15 September. Full list on the WA tenders page.

Federally, the Australian Taxation Office is buying a Global Market Intelligence Subscription (closes 15 September), the Bureau of Meteorology wants COP31 Video Products (15 September), and the Australian Institute of Marine Science is tendering the AIMS Index of Marine Industry, an economic analysis engagement closing 14 September. The federal pipeline is smaller by count than the states right now, but the work skews professional-services heavy.

Meanwhile: the newest awards worth noting

The award side of the ledger kept moving this week. The Department of Defence signed Lockheed Martin Australia as a Combat Systems Integration Partner for $29.3 million on 8 September, and handed Ernst & Young a $5.3 million Modernisation Requirements Setting engagement the same day. The Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water awarded BP Marine a $12.4 million contract for 2026-27 marine bunkers for RSV Nuyina, the Antarctic icebreaker, and the Department of Health, Disability and Ageing signed a $19.1 million, ten-year lease of rental premises in Parramatta with Evolve FM. Recent awards are the best forward signal of which agencies have budget in motion — explore the history on our contract awards pages.

The pattern: the five-day window is where bids are won

Two things stand out in this batch. First, the 14–15 September cluster is dominated by panels, standing offers and EOIs — V/Line's traffic management panel, HealthShare's standing offer arrangement, the Coomera Connector and Mount Peter EOIs. These are gateway tenders: miss one and you are often locked out of a category for years, not weeks. Second, the window matters more than the list. Of the 255 tenders closing this fortnight, the ones above are featured precisely because five days is still a workable runway — by the time a weekly portal sweep finds them, it will not be. The bidders who win recurring government work are the ones who see a tender on day one of its life, not day six.

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