Supply to the ACT Government
Understand how to supply to ACT and Australian Government.
ACT Government
Each year, the ACT Government spends approximately $2.24 billion to support the government’s priorities.
Your business could be part of this local investment, supporting economic development, employment and trade.
We encourage any businesses that can help us meet our objectives to apply for opportunities to work with us.
We have specific policies in place to support and promote to:
- small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs)
- Canberra Region businesses
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander owned businesses.
Learn how you can participate in government procurement.
Guides to supplying to ACT Government
There are many ways to supply to the ACT Government.
This can include:
- quote and tender thresholds
- panels
- multi-use lists (MUL) and schemes.
Tenders ACT
Opportunities to join new panels or existing panels are advertised on the Tenders ACT website.
Tenders ACT is the central point for managing ACT Government tenders.
You can register on Tenders ACT for notifications of business opportunities and Tenders ACT training.
The Tenders ACT training will help you respond to a tender in the best possible way.
This includes two short online courses:
- Getting started with Tenders ACT
- Finding and Submitting Tenders on Tenders ACT.
You can also see current opportunities to tender, as well as other useful information such as notifiable contracts and notifiable invoices.
Learn more about supplying to ACT Government
Australian Government
In 2023-24 there were more than 83,400 contracts published on AusTender with a combined value of $99.6 billion.
Opportunities are available for ACT businesses to work with and sell to the Australian Government.
The Australian Government is a large potential market for businesses of all sizes.
From advertising to cleaning services, engineering, office equipment, training, project management, research and recruitment — Australian Government organisations buy a wide variety of goods and services.
Sell to the Australian Government
Selling to government workshops
The Australian Government hosts online workshops to help businesses supply to government.
Workshops include:
- An introduction to Australian Government procurement for suppliers workshop
- Building your best tender response workshop
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