Data sources

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In use

• AusTender ATM RSS — open Commonwealth approaches to market (CC BY 3.0 AU).
• AusTender OCDS API — Commonwealth contract awards (CC BY 3.0 AU).
• VendorPanel Public Tenders RSS — publicly listed council and other open tenders.
• Western Power — public tenders / ROI list page (utility / GBE).
• NZ GETS public RSS — ExternalRSSFeed.htm (robots only blocks SEMrushBot; we ingest the RSS description fields for in-app detail, no login bypass).
• Tasmania eTenders Open for Bids — public list under /OpenForBids/ (robots allow; we do not fetch disallowed /Tender/ paths).

Attempted / blocked from our egress

• NSW eTendering API — documented JSON API; from Workers we usually get CloudFront 403 or an HTML portal page instead of JSON. Adapter retries daily; no HTML scraping of buy.nsw.

Not ingested (robots or no open API)

• VicTenders / Buying for Victoria — robots disallow tender/contract detail paths; no official bulk RSS/API; DataVic has no open-RFT dataset (re-checked 2026-10-31).
• Victorian councils & water on VendorPanel public RSS — ingested and labelled VIC via agency registry (79 LGAs + water/health/TAFE). TenderLink / eProcure / ICN not ingested (bot wall, no public feed, or registration).
• QTenders — robots disallow /api/, *.json, *.xml.
• Tenders WA — robots Disallow: /.
• SA Tenders — Cloudflare challenge / 403 from our egress; robots also Disallow /tender/view. Not ingested.
• NT Quotations and Tenders Online — no stable robots-allowed machine-readable feed from our egress (CF challenge). Not ingested.
• Most university Jaggaer portals — no permitted bulk feed, or robots disallow.

Full research notes live in the project DATA_SOURCES.md for operators.