find_tenders
Search AU/NZ tenders
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Search open tenders across Australia and New Zealand.
FREE, within the weekly cap.
USE THIS WHEN someone asks what public-sector work is open: "any council drainage
tenders in Victoria", "what's closing this month in NSW", "show me federal IT
opportunities". For "which of these could MY company actually bid for", use
match_tenders instead — that reads their website and ranks against it.
jurisdiction is one of AU, NZ, AU-NSW, AU-VIC, AU-QLD, AU-WA, AU-SA, AU-TAS, AU-ACT, AU-NT. tier is federal, national,
state, council, university or health. closing_before is an ISO date.first_seen_after (ISO-8601 instant, strictly newer) answers "what is new since my last
look" — first_seen is when WE first saw the tender, the honest clock for newness. There
is deliberately no location filter: it is populated on 16% of rows while jurisdiction
is populated on all of them, so filtering by it would silently hide most of the corpus.
Returns {total, results[], coverage}. Each result carries title, buyer, jurisdiction,
closing_date, categories, a summary, a link, and source_id/source_tag/source_name/
source_url/source_refresh — plus link_is_listing when the portal publishes no
per-tender URL and the link goes to the list it appeared on.
coverage names which sources were searched and which returned nothing. Quote it if
the result is empty: "no match in what we searched" is true, "there are none" is not.
Input schema
| Property | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| q | any | no | |
| jurisdiction | any | no | |
| tier | any | no | |
| source | any | no | |
| category | any | no | |
| closing_before | any | no | |
| first_seen_after | any | no | |
| include_closed | boolean | no | |
| limit | integer | no |
Raw JSON schema
{
"properties": {
"q": {
"anyOf": [
{
"type": "string"
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"default": null,
"title": "Q"
},
"jurisdiction": {
"anyOf": [
{
"type": "string"
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"default": null,
"title": "Jurisdiction"
},
"tier": {
"anyOf": [
{
"type": "string"
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"default": null,
"title": "Tier"
},
"source": {
"anyOf": [
{
"type": "string"
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"default": null,
"title": "Source"
},
"category": {
"anyOf": [
{
"type": "string"
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"default": null,
"title": "Category"
},
"closing_before": {
"anyOf": [
{
"type": "string"
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"default": null,
"title": "Closing Before"
},
"first_seen_after": {
"anyOf": [
{
"type": "string"
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"default": null,
"title": "First Seen After"
},
"include_closed": {
"default": false,
"title": "Include Closed",
"type": "boolean"
},
"limit": {
"default": 25,
"title": "Limit",
"type": "integer"
}
},
"title": "find_tendersArguments",
"type": "object"
}