SOURCES
The tender portals we read
We check for new tenders every day. Federal and WA Government tenders, plus councils across Australia, with more sources added as they come on board. For each portal, what we take, how often we check, and the licence that allows it. Every notice links back to its portal. Portals we have not added yet, and the ones we will not read, are listed after.
We check 279 government buyers every day, each with a tender published in the last 12 months on the portals below.
Federal1 portal · 35 buyers
Open federal tenders: title, buyer, category, dates and a link. The feed hourly, and each new tender's page once
Awarded contracts and five years of award history. Daily
CC BY 3.0 AU
The feed hourly, and each new tender's page once
Daily
State and territory1 portal · 42 buyers
Open tenders, as metadata and a link. Shown with "Source: Tenders WA (Department of Treasury and Finance)". Daily, 2:40am Perth time
Awarded contracts since July 2021, from the Department of Treasury and Finance's open data on data.wa.gov.au. Weekly
Public web pages, read under the portal's Conditions of Use. CC BY 4.0
Daily, 2:40am Perth time
Weekly
Local government2 portals · 202 buyers
- VendorPanel (opens in a new tab)National, mostly councils
The public tender list. Hourly
Public RSS feed
Hourly
- Council websites (opens in a new tab)Brisbane City Council and a growing list of councils that publish on their own sites
Open tenders from each council's own tenders page, as metadata and a link. Councils are added one by one once their robots.txt and terms are checked. Daily
Each council's public-notice page; CC BY 4.0 where the council licenses it (Brisbane)
Daily
Not read yet
Portals we plan to add. Each is read only after a person has checked its terms of use. Until then, check them directly.
Not covered, and why
Three portals we do not read. Customers get a reminder to check them where it matters.
- ACT Tenders (opens in a new tab)ACT
The portal's terms allow non-commercial download only, so we do not read it. Customers in the ACT get a reminder to check it directly.
- TenderLink, including the WALGA channel (opens in a new tab)WA councils and others
TenderLink's terms prohibit bots, aggregation and competing products. Councils that also publish on VendorPanel or their own sites are covered there.
- BuyICT (opens in a new tab)Federal
Opportunities are visible only to sellers registered on its panels. Customers who hold or target a federal panel get a reminder to check it for panel work.
How we read a portal
We take notice metadata and a link, never the tender documents. Attachments are linked, not copied.
- Every request names Worthabid and links our fetch policy. We obey robots.txt on every site but one, Tenders WA, which is read under its Conditions of Use. The fetch policy explains why.
- At most one request every three seconds per site, one connection at a time.
- No copy of a fetched page is kept. Only the notice facts and the link are stored.
- Portals whose terms prohibit reuse are not read, and are named above with the reason.
- Portal operators can ask questions or opt out on the fetch policy page.