Government sites are flaky, and a connector that quietly stops returning results looks exactly like a quiet week in the market. Every fetch is retried with exponential backoff, and a source is disabled after five consecutive failures rather than left to rot.
| Source | Kind | Lead time | Cadence | Last poll | Status | Breaker | Signals |
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Standards Australia public comment comment.standards.org.au/The single highest lead time source in the register. A draft appearing here is typically three to five years ahead of the capital works it causes. Draft PDFs are copyrighted and are never stored, only the metadata and the fact of the change. | scrape | very high | 1 day | ok | CLOSED 0/5 | 0 | |
Standards Australia news www.standards.org.au/A Subscribe to RSS link is present on the homepage but the exact feed URL was not captured during research. Treated as a scrape until the feed is confirmed. There is no public work programme API. | scrape | high | 1 day | ok | CLOSED 0/5 | 1 | |
ABCB National Construction Code news ncc.abcb.gov.au/newsCarries the adoption timetable and every state variation. State by state adoption is the part that actually changes what gets built and when. | scrape | high | 1 day | ok | CLOSED 0/5 | 18 | |
ACSQHC newsroom www.safetyandquality.gov.au/newsroom/latest-newsThe proof case source. Advisory AS24/01 appeared here years ahead of the sterilising services capital works it triggered. Watch advisories above all else. | scrape | very high | 1 day | ok | CLOSED 0/5 | 7 | |
Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission news www.agedcarequality.gov.au/news-publications/newsStandard 4 of the Strengthened Standards is a built environment standard. Enforcement activity here is a direct refurbishment signal. | scrape | very high | 1 day | ok | CLOSED 0/5 | 3 | |
Australasian Health Facility Guidelines healthfacilityguidelines.com.au/AusHFG revisions are the design brief for every public hospital project in Australia and New Zealand. A revised Health Planning Unit changes room schedules on projects that have not been designed yet. | scrape | very high | 1 day | ok | CLOSED 0/5 | 9 | |
AusTender approaches to market www.tenders.gov.auUNVERIFIED. The official AusTender developer repo documents only the OCDS REST API and never mentions RSS, so this feed URL may not exist. The reported CC BY 3.0 AU licence is also unconfirmed; Commonwealth open data has broadly moved to CC BY 4.0. Check this endpoint before relying on it. Low lead time value regardless: an item here is already at tender, which is the moment this product exists to get ahead of. | rss | low | 1 hr | ok | CLOSED 0/5 | 0 | |
GrantConnect forecast opportunities www.grants.gov.au/fo/listForecast opportunities are published before the grant opens, which puts them ahead of the funding, which is ahead of the build. No public RSS or REST API was confirmed, so this is a scrape plus registered email notifications. | scrape | high | 1 day | ok | CLOSED 0/5 | 3 | |
Victorian industry funds and investment attraction breakthroughvictoria.com/stories/Breakthrough Victoria, Invest Victoria and the state manufacturing and sovereignty funds. A portfolio company announcing a facility is a right sized lead in the home state, which makes this one of the highest value connectors in the register. | scrape | high | 1 day | ok | CLOSED 0/5 | 8 | |
Buying for Victoria and Victorian panels www.buyingfor.vic.gov.au/browse-tendersPanel and standing offer activity in the home state, separate from the tender listing at source 17. Panels are how most work in the 5m to 15m band is actually released, and a panel refresh is an access event with a date on it. | scrape | high | 1 hr | ok | CLOSED 0/5 | 0 | |
Manual entry /signals/newA conference conversation is a signal. This is how a tip from a site visit or an industry lunch enters the same scoring model as everything else. | manual | high | On demand | Never | no poll yet | CLOSED 0/5 | 0 |
| Source | Kind | Lead time | Cadence | Last poll | Status | Breaker | Signals |
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AusTender OCDS contract notices api.tenders.gov.au/ocds/findByDatesVERIFIED against the Department of Finance developer repo. Keyless, no published rate limit, coverage from 1 January 2013, date range passed as path segments rather than query parameters. Important limitation: it serves AWARDED contract notices only and has no approach to market endpoint, so it cannot find live opportunities. Used to close the loop instead: when a wave called eighteen months ago shows up as an awarded contract, that is the scoring model validating itself. | api | low | 1 day | ok | CLOSED 0/5 | 0 | |
NSW Online DA Data API data.nsw.gov.au/data/dataset/online-da-data-apiAwaiting subscription key. Covers development applications lodged on the NSW Planning Portal since January 2019. A public Major Projects API filterable by development type was not found; this is the closest confirmed feed. | api | medium | 1 hr | Never | disabled | CLOSED 0/5 | 0 |
PlanningAlerts www.planningalerts.org.au/applications.jsonVERIFIED from first party source. Routes are format suffixed rather than versioned, and the host is www: the api subdomain works but 301 redirects on every call. Supports json, geojson and rss, with lat/lng/radius, bounding box, postcode, suburb, authority and bulk paged query modes. Free for low volume non commercial use; the exact daily quota is still unconfirmed. | api | medium | 1 hr | Never | disabled | CLOSED 0/5 | 0 |
ARPANSA Radiation Protection Series www.arpansa.gov.au/regulation-and-licensing/regulatory-publications/radiation-protection-seriesDrives radiotherapy bunker, nuclear medicine and radiopharmacy design. Small number of items, very high value per item. | scrape | high | 1 wk | ok | CLOSED 0/5 | 3 | |
OGTR certification and resources www.ogtr.gov.au/resourcesPC2 and PC3 certification requirements set the physical containment spec for every gene technology laboratory fitout in the country. | scrape | high | 1 wk | ok | CLOSED 0/5 | 1 | |
ABN Lookup web services abr.business.gov.au/json/Organisation enrichment only. Confirms legal entity, ABN and trading names. | api | low | 1 wk | ok | CLOSED 0/5 | 0 | |
Adzuna job ads api.adzuna.com/v1/api/jobs/au/search/1A health service advertising for a capital works project director is telling you it has capital works. Used as a hiring signal. LinkedIn and Seek are deliberately not scraped; Adzuna is the compliant route. | api | medium | 1 day | ok | CLOSED 0/5 | 0 | |
NSW eTendering www.tenders.nsw.gov.auLate stage. Kept for wave validation and for competitor award tracking. | scrape | low | 1 hr | ok | CLOSED 0/5 | 0 | |
Buying for Victoria www.buyingfor.vic.gov.au/browse-tendersLate stage. Home state, so worth the poll despite the low lead time. | scrape | low | 1 hr | ok | CLOSED 0/5 | 0 | |
Tenders WA www.tenders.wa.gov.auIntermittent timeouts over the last three polls. Circuit breaker trips at five consecutive failures. | scrape | low | 1 hr | 3 fails | CLOSED 3/5 | 0 | |
QTenders qtenders.hpw.qld.gov.au/qtendersOutside the core states, kept at a lower cadence. | scrape | low | 2 hr | ok | CLOSED 0/5 | 2 | |
Tenders SA www.tenders.sa.gov.auOutside the core states, kept at a lower cadence. | scrape | low | 2 hr | ok | CLOSED 0/5 | 0 | |
Safe Work Australia and state WHS regulators www.safeworkaustralia.gov.au/media-centreAdded after the engineered stone prohibition showed how fast a WHS rule can change material specification across every fitout in the country. Covers Safe Work Australia plus SafeWork NSW and WorkSafe WA. | scrape | high | 1 wk | ok | CLOSED 0/5 | 6 | |
Government and agency media releases www.health.gov.au/newsMinisterial and agency announcements across Commonwealth and state health, aged care and infrastructure portfolios. This is where a named project and a dollar figure usually appear first, months before anything reaches a tender portal. | scrape | high | 1 day | ok | CLOSED 0/5 | 63 | |
Federal industry and manufacturing programs www.industry.gov.au/newsNational Reconstruction Fund, Industry Growth Program and the Future Made in Australia agenda. The pattern to watch: a company wins capital, then needs a facility twelve to twenty four months later. The grant announcement is the signal, not the tender. | scrape | high | 1 day | ok | CLOSED 0/5 | 5 |
| Source | Kind | Lead time | Cadence | Last poll | Status | Breaker | Signals |
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Victorian Health Building Authority www.vhba.vic.gov.au/Exact stable pipeline URL still to be pinned down. Scraping the projects index for now. | scrape | high | 1 wk | ok | CLOSED 0/5 | 2 | |
Health Infrastructure NSW www.hinfra.health.nsw.gov.au/Exact stable pipeline URL still to be pinned down. Scraping the projects index for now. | scrape | high | 1 wk | ok | CLOSED 0/5 | 3 | |
State budget capital works papers www.dtf.vic.gov.au/state-budgetMostly PDF. Extracted with an LLM pass rather than parsed. Polled around budget season only. | scrape | high | 1 mo | ok | CLOSED 0/5 | 4 | |
ARC and NCRIS research infrastructure www.arc.gov.auLIEF and NCRIS outcomes name the institution and the equipment, which is usually enough to infer the laboratory fitout that has to follow it. | scrape | medium | 1 wk | ok | CLOSED 0/5 | 6 | |
ASX company announcements www.asx.com.auNot enabled. The official platform is paid and the documents are copyrighted. Third party feeds exist but their reliability and licensing were not verified. Metadata only if enabled, never the document body. | apipaid | medium | 1 hr | Never | disabled | CLOSED 0/5 | 0 |
NDIA and NDIS Engage www.ndis.gov.au/newsSDA Design Standard and pricing changes. A revised standard turns every dwelling built to the outgoing one into a potential retrofit. | scrape | medium | 1 wk | ok | CLOSED 0/5 | 2 | |
University and research institute newsrooms www.arc.gov.au/news-publicationsGroup of Eight and medical research institute announcements. A funded research programme cannot be used until the containment or imaging facility exists, so the announcement leads the fitout by twelve to twenty four months. | scrape | medium | 1 wk | 1 fails | CLOSED 1/5 | 4 | |
Defence industry and sovereign capability www.defence.gov.au/news-eventsDefence Industry Development Grants, AUKUS industrial uplift and the guided weapons enterprise. Supply chain partners often have to upgrade a facility to qualify, which is right sized work. Security clearance and restricted site access are real constraints and are scored as access. | scrape | medium | 1 wk | ok | CLOSED 0/5 | 1 |