Platform tender (v2)

Name: Platform tender
Creator: Demiton
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Platform tender is one of Demiton's published registers for Australian civil construction. Open government civil tender notices. Demiton keeps it current from the systems a contractor already runs and publishes the record's shape as a versioned JSON Schema, so the same question works whichever system produced the record.

Part of Platform in the register catalog.

Register ID: platform_tenderUse 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Version: v2 (2.0.0)Superseded by v3.

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Standards

This register's contract was designed against these standards and laws. Holding these records does not by itself certify compliance.

OCDSAusTender OCDS API (Contract Notice to OCDS release package)Australia · 1.1 · verified against full text
CPRsCommonwealth Procurement RulesAustralia · 17 November 2025 · public summary
CPVCommon Procurement VocabularyEuropean Union · CPV 2008 (amending regulation number not confirmed in this pass) · public summary
EU 2019/1780 (eForms)Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/1780 standard forms for procurement notices, as amended by (EU) 2023/2884European Union · 2019/1780 as amended by 2023/2884 (applies 1 Jun 2024; Annex 1 Nov 2024) · clause Competition form · verified against full text
OCDSOpen Contracting Data StandardInternational · 1.1 (documentation release 1.1.5) · clause release ocid, id, date; tender.id; tender.tenderPeriod.endDate · verified against full text
UNSPSCUnited Nations Standard Products and Services CodeInternational · v26.0801 (Sep 2025, per secondary source) · public summary
NZ GPRNew Zealand Government Procurement RulesNew Zealand · 5th edition (effective 1 Dec 2025) · public summary
UK Procurement Act 2023Procurement Act 2023 (c. 54) and Procurement Regulations 2024 (SI 2024/692)United Kingdom · in force 24 Feb 2025 · clause s. 21 · verified against full text
FARFederal Acquisition Regulation (48 CFR Chapter 1)United States · current through FAC 2026-01 (eff. 13 Mar 2026) · clause 5.201 · verified against full text

Connectors

Connected today

Demiton keeps this register current from these systems now.

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: 7 required, 15 optional.

Required

Every record carries these fields.

ocidText: The OCDS contracting-process identity, kept as PROVENANCE (lookup, citation, lifecycle-linker input), not an axis.
titleText: The tender notice title — the human label for the release.
close_dateDateYYYY-MM-DD: The tender period end — the date that makes a notice "active".
external_idText: The source-native tender key: AUSTENDER ocid/id (ausatm-…), TENDERLINK/WESTERN_POWER namespaced source_id, TAS synthesised notice_id, VIC/SA/WA/NSW/VENDOR_PANEL reference/notice_id/url fallback.
occurred_atDate and timeISO 8601, with time zone: The tender event the fact is dated by: OCDS release date/published_date, TENDERLINK release_date, WESTERN_POWER close_date.
source_datasetText: Producer identity (austender, tenderlink, western_power, vendor_panel, vic_tenders, sa_tenders, wa_tenders, tas_tenders, nsw_etender).
platform_project_idWhole number: Resolved civil-project tracking id (the primary coordinate; may be a minted stub).

Optional

Present when the source system records them.

urlText: The notice URL.
regionText: Tenderlink's free-text region, distinct from the derived jurisdiction.
statusText: The source's tender status (e.g. AusTender active, Tenderlink status).
contentText: The composed narrative label; NULL on 100% of platform facts until 2026-08-28.
agency_idWhole number: Resolved platform agency identity (null when no buyer was published or resolvable).
referenceText: The source-native reference (also an external_id fallback).
value_audDecimal numberUnit: AUD: Estimated/budget tender value — the one declared measure.
agency_nameText: The buying organisation as published; the value agency_id is resolved from.
descriptionText: The published tender description.
region_codejurisdictionUnit: AU state/territory code or AU: The jurisdiction that published the tender.
tender_typeText: The source's tender/notice type.
category_nameTextUnit: UNSPSC label where published: The goods/services classification label.
published_dateDateYYYY-MM-DD: The notice's publication date; equals occurred_at for most sources.
submission_urlText: The submission portal URL where the source publishes one.
procurement_methodText: The procurement method where the source publishes one.

Version history

v3 (current)
v2
v1

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.

https://docs.demiton.io/registers/platform_tender/v2.json

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