Federal Contracts Count — methodology

Category: Government Spending · Unit: contracts · Published monthly

What this metric measures

Number of Commonwealth procurement contracts published on AusTender each month.

Why it matters: Contract count alongside contract value reveals average contract size — a useful indicator of procurement fragmentation or consolidation.

Source & provenance

Publisher: AusTender Contract Notice Export (data.gov.au)
Update frequency: monthly
Licence: CC BY 4.0

How the score is computed

This metric is in a category that is tracked but does not contribute to the National Snapshot Index.

See related corrections at /corrections, or the live data and chart at https://www.australiametrics.org/metric/federal-contracts-count.