Platform award

Awarded government civil contracts, from AusTender and state sources.

Part of Platform in the register catalog.

Register ID

platform_awardUse this name to ask for the register. The API calls it a shelf ID.

Each record is

An eventSomething that happened at a point in time.

Status

AvailableFilled today from connected systems, uploads or public data.

Data

PublicShared, from public sources such as procurement portals.

Version

v1Current version.

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Standards

This register holds records these standards and laws ask for. Holding them does not by itself certify compliance.

• OCDSOpen Contracting Data StandardInternational

Connectors

Connected today

Demiton keeps this register current from these systems now.

• AusTender
• OpenContractsAU

On the roadmap

Systems in the planned connector rollout that can fill this register. Partial means the system holds only some of its fields.

None planned yet.

Fields

22 fields: 9 required, 13 optional.

Required

Every record carries these fields.

external_idText

The source-native award key: opencontractau contract_id (OCDS ocid, award-suffixed) or AusTender contract_notice_id.

ocidText

The OCDS contracting-process identity, kept as PROVENANCE (lookup, citation, lifecycle-linker input), not an axis.

source_datasetText

Producer identity (austender \.

observed_atDate and timeISO 8601, with time zone

When the award was observed / took effect; drives episodic ordering and the since/until read.

award_dateDateYYYY-MM-DD

The authority's award date — the event the shelf records.

platform_project_idWhole number

Resolved civil-project tracking id (the primary coordinate; may be a minted stub).

agency_idWhole number

Resolved buying-agency identity.

agency_nameText

The buyer/agency name as published; the value agency_id is resolved from.

supplier_identificationTrue or false

True when at least one of contractor_abn / contractor_name is present; the award gate rejects otherwise.

Optional

Present when the source system records them.

contractor_abnTextUnit: ABN (11 digits)

The awarded contractor's ABN where published.

contractor_nameText

The awarded contractor's name; the only identification for ABN-less suppliers.

value_audDecimal numberUnit: AUD

The awarded contract value — the one declared measure.

region_codeTextUnit: AU state/territory code or AU

The jurisdiction that published the award.

titleText

The contract/award title; for some scrapers the only human label.

descriptionText

The published description; often equal to title.

category_codeTextUnit: UNSPSC code

The goods/services classification.

category_nameText

The classification's label.

contract_start_dateDateYYYY-MM-DD

Start of the awarded contract period.

contract_end_dateDateYYYY-MM-DD

End of the awarded contract period.

tender_referenceText

The originating tender id where published (AusTender atm_id), the lifecycle linker's reference-match key.

confidenceNumberUnit: 0–1

Identity confidence of the contractor binding (1.0 for publisher ABN, 0.8 for a name match).

contentText

The composed narrative label; NULL on 100% of award facts until 2026-08-28.

Use this contract

The contract is a standard JSON Schema (draft 2020-12) document, so any JSON Schema validator can check a record against it. Keywords starting with x-demiton- add Demiton's own meaning, such as units and requiredness, and validators ignore them.

Schema URL

https://docs.demiton.io/registers/platform_award/v1.json

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