One financial year from 2008-09 to 2011-12, with the total value in dollars of the contracts Australian Government agencies reported on AusTender, split into goods and services, the Defence share of each, goods and services sourced in Australia and overseas, and the value awarded to small and medium enterprises.

The department published these four years in 2013 and has not added to the file. Later figures are in the department's yearly statistics on Australian Government procurement contracts.

Australian Government procurement totals by year, 2008-09 to 2011-12

Name: Australian Government procurement totals by year, 2008-09 to 2011-12
Creator: Department of Finance
Published: 2014-05-07
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/

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Publisher Department of FinanceUpdated no longerLicence CC BY 3.0 AULatest 2014-05-07Rows 4Fields 11

The Department of Finance's aggregated procurement statistics from the AusTender contract system for 2008-09 to 2011-12. Each row is one financial year with the dollar value of contracts reported, in total and split by goods and services, Defence, Australian or overseas sourcing, and the value awarded to small and medium enterprises.

Also called: AusTender aggregated procurement statistics, Commonwealth procurement by year, Australian Government contracts value by financial year, SME share of Commonwealth procurement.

Before you use it

What is in each row?: One financial year from 2008-09 to 2011-12, with the total value in dollars of the contracts Australian Government agencies reported on AusTender, split into goods and services, the Defence share of each, goods and services sourced in Australia and overseas, and the value awarded to small and medium enterprises.
Is this updated?: The department published these four years in 2013 and has not added to the file. Later figures are in the department's yearly statistics on Australian Government procurement contracts.

Made for agents

Connect your AI agent

Any agent that connects to publicdata.au/mcp can find this dataset, read its 11 fields, count and filter across all 4 rows and diff its versions. Every answer names the version and carries Finance's attribution. No key.

Then ask it: What does Australian Government procurement totals by year, 2008-09 to 2011-12 hold, and what changed in the newest version?

claude mcp add --transport http publicdata https://publicdata.au/mcp

One command. No key, no account, no sign-up.

https://publicdata.au/mcp

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ExploreChart every row in your browser

A dashboard over every row. Click to filter, add panels, share a link or embed a frame.

Query APIFilter and count from a URL

aggregate?group=financial_year&metric=sum.total_contract_value

Value of contracts reported in each financial year ($): 42,457,082,669 2009/10, 41,422,222,794 2011/12, 32,352,554,574 2010/11, 31,521,328,226 2008/09.

Download it as Excel, CSV, JSON and 6 more formats

Pick a format and a version. Excel is picked first because it opens in the tools most offices have. The URL is yours to keep. A dated version never changes.

Format

Version "Latest" redirects to the newest version and will change when the publisher releases again. A dated version never changes.

https://publicdata.au/d/au-government-procurement-totals-2008-2012/latest/data.xlsx

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In your own tools

Use it in Excel, R, Python and more

Excel and Power BI read the CSV from its address and refresh from it. The R and Python packages take any dataset on this site by its slug, so a new dataset needs no new release. The DuckDB file attaches read-only over HTTPS, and a query reads only the blocks it touches.

The dated URL in the code never changes. https://publicdata.au/d/au-government-procurement-totals-2008-2012/latest/ redirects to the newest version.

https://publicdata.au/d/au-government-procurement-totals-2008-2012/latest/data.csv

In Excel choose Data, then From Web, and paste this address. Excel keeps it, so Refresh All reads the newest version. A sheet holds about a million rows; past that, load the query to the Data Model.

https://publicdata.au/d/au-government-procurement-totals-2008-2012/latest/data.csv

In Power BI Desktop choose Get data, then Web, paste this address and choose Anonymous when asked how to sign in. A scheduled refresh reads the same address, so the report follows each new version.

library(publicdataau)
df <- pd_read("au-government-procurement-totals-2008-2012")
pd_attribution(df)

install.packages("publicdataau"). pd_read() fetches the version's Parquet file; pd_rows() and pd_aggregate() ask the query API instead, and pd_connect() attaches the DuckDB file.

import publicdata_au as pd_au
df = pd_au.read("au-government-procurement-totals-2008-2012")
df.attrs["publicdata"]["attribution"]

pip install "publicdata-au[pandas]". read() fetches the version's Parquet file; rows() and aggregate() ask the query API, and connect() attaches the DuckDB file.

INSTALL httpfs; LOAD httpfs;
ATTACH 'https://publicdata.au/d/au-government-procurement-totals-2008-2012/v/2014-05-07/data.duckdb' AS au_government_procurement_totals_2008_2012 (READ_ONLY);
SELECT financial_year, count(*) FROM au_government_procurement_totals_2008_2012.records GROUP BY 1 ORDER BY 2 DESC;

The DuckDB file attaches read-only over HTTPS and only the blocks a query touches are read. Parquet works the same way: FROM read_parquet(url).

const res = await fetch("https://publicdata.au/api/v1/datasets/au-government-procurement-totals-2008-2012/aggregate?group=financial_year&metric=sum.total_contract_value");
const { rows, publicdata } = await res.json();
console.log(rows, publicdata.attribution);

The query API answers a page on any site as well as Node, with no key. It returns the rows and the attribution the licence asks for.

What is in it

Column names are made snake_case and the publisher's original header is kept beside each one. Blank cells are null. Nothing is added, removed, ranked or summarised.

Field	Type	Publisher's header
financial_year	string	Financial Year
total_contract_value	integer	Total Contract Value
total_goods_value	integer	Total Goods Value
total_services_value	integer	Total Services Value
defence_goods_value	integer	Defence Goods Value
defence_services_value	integer	Defence Services Value
australian_sourced_goods	integer	Australian Sourced Goods
australian_sourced_services	integer	Australian Sourced Services
overseas_sourced_goods	integer	Overseas Sourced Goods
overseas_sourced_services	integer	Overseas Sourced Services
sme_value	integer	SME Value per year

Download this table as a data dictionary (Excel), or read it as a Frictionless Table Schema at schema.json. The key is financial_year.

The first 4 rows

From the latest version, in the publisher's order, with every field. A blank cell is shown as null.

financial_year	total_contract_value	total_goods_value	total_services_value	defence_goods_value	defence_services_value	australian_sourced_goods	australian_sourced_services	overseas_sourced_goods	overseas_sourced_services	sme_value
2008/09	31521328226	13092944975	18428383251	10761254367	6932734146	6876377213	18286399992	6216567762	141983258	9585900000
2009/10	42457082669	14259753416	28197329253	11947435403	8646784259	5980643678	27180647324	8279109738	1016681929	13763600000
2010/11	32352554574	12200452264	20152102310	9504409519	5736397760	6956468949	17800572318	5243983315	2351529992	10942500000
2011/12	41422222794	18533967112	22888255682	16265065994	6495907044	9782606966	22526066133	8751360145	326189549	16213700000

The first row as JSON

As it appears in data.json.

GET https://publicdata.au/d/au-government-procurement-totals-2008-2012/latest/data.json
{
  "financial_year": "2008/09",
  "total_contract_value": 31521328226,
  "total_goods_value": 13092944975,
  "total_services_value": 18428383251,
  "defence_goods_value": 10761254367,
  "defence_services_value": 6932734146,
  "australian_sourced_goods": 6876377213,
  "australian_sourced_services": 18286399992,
  "overseas_sourced_goods": 6216567762,
  "overseas_sourced_services": 141983258,
  "sme_value": 9585900000
}

Query it without downloading

The query API returns only the rows you ask for, as JSON, NDJSON or CSV, from the same typed rows as the files. It needs no key. Build a query here and run it, then copy the URL or the code into your own work.

Try rows or aggregate for this dataset. The query builder needs JavaScript.

How filters work

Each filter is field=operator.value in the query string, and every filter must match. A number or date field compares as a number or date, and a text field compares as text. Values are case-sensitive except with ilike. Prefix not. to negate a filter, as not.eq.value.

Operator	What it matches
eq.value	Equal to the value.
neq.value	Not equal to the value. A blank cell does not match.
gt.value	Greater than the value.
gte.value	Greater than or equal to the value.
lt.value	Less than the value.
lte.value	Less than or equal to the value.
like.text	Matches a pattern where * stands for any run of characters. Case-sensitive.
ilike.text	The same as like, ignoring case.
in.(a,b,c)	Equal to any value in the list. A value cannot contain a comma.
is.null	Blank in the source, or suppressed by the publisher.

Parameter	What it does
select	Fields to return, comma-separated. Every field when absent.
order	field.asc or field.desc, comma-separated. The publisher's row order when absent.
limit	Rows per page, 1 to 10,000. 100 when absent.
offset	Rows to skip. The next URL in each answer sets it for you.
group	On aggregate, fields to group by, comma-separated.
metric	On aggregate, count, sum.field, avg.field, min.field or max.field, comma-separated. count when absent.
format	json, ndjson or csv. JSON carries the provenance header, and the others carry it in response headers.

Without a version the API answers from the newest loaded version, and that answer changes when the publisher releases again. Put versions/<date>/ before rows or aggregate for an answer that never changes. /api/v1/datasets/<slug>/versions lists the loaded versions. The 1 newest version is loaded; versions lists them.

The API allows 60 requests in 10 seconds from one address. Above that it answers 429 for 10 seconds with a Retry-After header, a RateLimit-Policy header and a JSON body that gives the limit. Every API answer carries the same RateLimit-Policy. A client should wait the Retry-After seconds, or read the files, which have no limit. openapi.json describes this dataset's query paths for client generators and agents.

https://publicdata.au/mcp is a remote MCP server over Streamable HTTP with the same tools, defined in the same place, so a tool added to the pages is added here too. It needs no key and no account. The row tools are held to the query API's limit of 60 queries in 10 seconds from one address, and each call is two queries because it also counts the matching rows. Add it to Claude Code with claude mcp add --transport http publicdata https://publicdata.au/mcp, add the URL in Claude as a custom connector, or give it to any client that connects to remote MCP servers. Each queryable dataset is also a resource at https://publicdata.au/d/<slug>/fields.json, which lists its fields with their types, the publisher's descriptions, their ranges and the values they hold, so an agent can read a dataset's shape before it writes a query.

What changed

One version for every release the publisher has made since this site started following the dataset. The date is the day the file changed on the portal.

2014-05-07
4 rows11 fieldsutf-8-sig428dbb93e7d3

versions.json · changes.json · history.tar.zst (4.4 KB, every version's Parquet and manifest)

Questions

How do I download Australian Government procurement totals by year as a CSV file?

Open https://publicdata.au/d/au-government-procurement-totals-2008-2012/latest/data.csv. It redirects to the newest dated version, which is https://publicdata.au/d/au-government-procurement-totals-2008-2012/v/2014-05-07/data.csv today. The same path serves Excel, JSON, Parquet, SQLite, DuckDB, NDJSON, Arrow. A dated URL never changes, so use it when the file must stay the same.

Can I open Australian Government procurement totals by year in Excel?

Yes. https://publicdata.au/d/au-government-procurement-totals-2008-2012/v/2014-05-07/data.xlsx is a workbook with the 4 rows on a records sheet, the field list on a second sheet and the provenance on a third. The CSV also opens in Excel. https://publicdata.au/d/au-government-procurement-totals-2008-2012/v/2014-05-07/data.csv.gz is the CSV at about a tenth of the size.

What years does Australian Government procurement totals by year cover?

The current version covers the years since 2008. Each release from Finance becomes a new dated version here, and earlier versions stay online.

How often is Australian Government procurement totals by year updated?

Finance no longer updates it. This site checks the portal every week and adds a dated version when the file changes.

Can I use Australian Government procurement totals by year commercially?

Yes. CC BY 3.0 AU allows commercial use, redistribution and derived works as long as the attribution is kept. The attribution string is in this page's side column and inside every file.

Is this the official source for Australian Government procurement totals by year?

No. The publisher is Department of Finance, and its page is https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/aggregated-yearly-australian-government-procurement-statistics. This site republishes the publisher's file without changing its content. The original sits beside every version as source.csv with its SHA-256, so the two can be compared.

What this site did to the data. Cells were typed, headers were renamed and the encoding was made UTF-8. Rows were left alone. The publisher's file sits beside every version as source.csv so the change can be checked.

Attribution and citation

The licence requires the publisher's attribution. We ask that you also name publicdata.au and link to the version you used.

Department of Finance, Australian Government, Aggregated yearly Australian Government procurement statistics, sourced 3 October 2026, https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/aggregated-yearly-australian-government-procurement-statistics, licensed under CC BY 3.0 AU. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/au-government-procurement-totals-2008-2012/v/2014-05-07/

The attribution alone is inside every file. Harvard is the author-date form a report or a brief asks for. Paste the HTML on a web page so the links carry.

Licence record

Department of Finance states the licence, CC BY 3.0 AU, on its own page, which was read and recorded here on 1 October 2026.

Every fetch reads the licence again and stops when it has changed. The fetch that made version 2014-05-07 read it from data.gov.au on 3 October 2026.

Also published on

Hugging Faceload_dataset("National-Digital/au-government-procurement-totals-2008-2012")
Kagglewith a starter notebook
ZenodoDOI 10.5281/zenodo.23123898

Each copy carries the same attribution and links back to this page.

For agents and tools

datapackage.jsonFrictionless data package pointing at the latest version
schema.jsonTable Schema for every field
schema.xlsxthe same field list as an Excel data dictionary
versions.jsonevery version with date, rows, fields and hash
changes.jsondiff for every consecutive pair
manifest.jsonwhere the bytes came from and when
Query APIfiltered rows and counts without a download
openapi.jsonOpenAPI 3.1 for this dataset's query paths
explore/charts and dashboards in the browser, shareable and embeddable
index.mdthis page as Markdown

This page carries a schema.org Dataset record and is listed in /.well-known/ard.json and /catalog.json.

Source

Department of Finance publishes this table on data.gov.au. Questions about the content go to the publisher. Questions about the files here go to corrections.

Fetched 3 October 2026. Source SHA-256 428dbb93e7d39113…

Improve this dataset

This page is built from register/au-government-procurement-totals-2008-2012.yaml on GitHub. Anyone can propose a fix to it, such as a clearer description or a field the publisher renamed, as a pull request.

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