Commonwealth Signals

Week 2025-W52 (December 22 to December 28, 2025)

In this episode, we unpack $1.3B in Commonwealth procurement across 970 contracts.

Coverage spans 53 agencies and 720 suppliers.

Week-over-week spending is up 136 percent.

Episode highlights:

- Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission: $12.6M awarded to Macquarie Technology Operations Pty Ltd.

- Asbestos and Silica Safety and Eradication Agency: $209K awarded to UNION AID ABROAD - APHEDA.

- Department of Finance: $8.5M awarded to KPMG Australia.

- Department of Defence: $206.9M awarded to CAE AUSTRALIA PTY LTD.

- Department of Defence: $178.1M awarded to VMWARE AUSTRALIA PTY LTD.

Top agencies this week:

- Department of Defence: $1.1B across 576 contracts.

- Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water: $99.8M across 77 contracts.

- Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications, Sport and the Arts: $27.5M across 9 contracts.

Category trends:

- Other: $733.0M

- It Telecom: $226.9M

- Workforce: $208.3M

- Professional Services: $70.7M

Procurement approach mix:

- Limited: 651 contracts, 77% of value.

- Open: 319 contracts, 23% of value.

Recurring suppliers:

- THALES AUSTRALIA: 15 wins, $8.4M total value.

- TOLL REMOTE LOGISTICS PTY LTD: 12 wins, $228K total value.

- DELL AUSTRALIA PTY LIMITED: 10 wins, $7.4M total value.

Why this matters:

This briefing tracks real procurement signals across agency activity, supplier concentration, contract size mix, and category-level shifts so public sector teams can spot patterns early.

Keywords: Australian government tenders, AusTender, procurement intelligence, contract awards, public sector spending, supplier trends, agency procurement.

Source data: AusTender OCDS (CC BY 3.0 AU).