Spendari tracks Commonwealth AI and AI-adjacent contracts, the renewals coming up and who is hiring for AI, so AI vendors and consultancies can plan before the tender drops. Since 1 April 2026, 387 AI-adjacent contracts worth A$2.22b and 65 contracts that name AI (A$45.3m) have been published on AusTender.
Top 10 agencies by AI-adjacent and explicit AI contract value, contract notices published 1 Apr 2026 to 16 Oct 2026.
| # | Agency | Explicit AI | AI-adjacent |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Services Australia | A$400k | A$264.9m |
| 2 | Australian Taxation Office | A$24.5m | A$182.2m |
| 3 | Australian Digital Health Agency | A$0 | A$181.0m |
| 4 | Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry | A$0 | A$163.9m |
| 5 | Department of Health, Disability and Ageing | A$195k | A$128.1m |
| 6 | Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications, Sport and the Arts | A$46k | A$115.9m |
| 7 | Digital Transformation Agency | A$571k | A$111.7m |
| 8 | Department of Finance | A$11.5m | A$90.2m |
| 9 | Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water | A$693k | A$92.6m |
| 10 | Australian Electoral Commission | A$0 | A$92.8m |
Services funded under VSA6 to support Copilot Studio end in December 2026. Follow-on adoption, agent build or governance work is a likely next step.
Cancer Australia contracted help to use Microsoft Copilot for its digital program, ending January 2027. Pilots like this often lead to wider rollout work.
The Australian Digital Health Agency signed a VSA6 Server and Cloud Enrolment through Data#3, running to March 2031. Licences are settled; the opening is services on top: data, Azure and AI adoption.
48 of 448 Australian-based job ads across 83 employers' public job feeds are AI roles:
Examples:
Sample from public Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby and Workable feeds only, fetched 2026-10-17. Not the whole market.
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