Department of Finance (Finance)
Operates AusTender and the Transparency Portal, which between them hold most of what is publicly known about federal contracting and agency performance.
2datasets assessed
69median usability
the typical dataset
the typical dataset
70mean usability
flagships lift this
flagships lift this
1machine readable
of 2
of 2
Holds data about
- AusTender: notices, contract notices and standing offers
- Transparency Portal: Commonwealth entity annual reports
- Commonwealth Procurement Rules
Finance is the most important publisher in this register, because contract notices are the one area where Australia genuinely does publish granular, machine-readable, timely data as a matter of course.
That makes it the benchmark. Any argument that a body cannot publish transaction-level spending has to explain why AusTender manages it across thousands of federal contracts a year.
Datasets
| Dataset | Availability | Format | Granularity | Checked | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AusTender contract notices | open | csv | Individual contract notice | never | 90 |
| Commonwealth entity annual reports | published | Whole-of-entity, annual | never | 49 |