Government work for engineering.
Engineering consultancies and technical services firms selling design, testing and project services to government. The published record holds 341 contract notices across 3 categories that make up this work, $4,682,035,708 of it with a published value. Below: the buyers that award it, the notices, and where Helm fits.
How this work is bought
Engineering services are bought as consultancies, panel call-offs and project engagements, with the professional engineering category the largest single line in the record. The buyers below are the ones that let it most, and the suppliers are the incumbents you are pricing against.
The categories on this page: Professional engineering services, Measuring and observing and testing instruments, Project management.
Buyers that award engineering work
By notice count, as published; disclosed values are the sum of the notices that publish one.
| buyers | notices | disclosed value |
|---|---|---|
| Department of Defence | 233 | A$4,359,523,382 |
| Department of Finance | 19 | A$14,129,090 |
| Bureau of Meteorology | 12 | A$1,322,129 |
| Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water | 10 | A$1,848,509 |
| Australian Submarine Agency | 8 | A$7,862,705 |
| Australian War Memorial | 6 | A$12,371,157 |
| Australian Federal Police | 6 | A$2,201,623 |
| Department of Veterans' Affairs | 5 | A$104,115 |
| Department of Industry, Science and Resources | 4 | A$1,808,715 |
| Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade | 4 | A$5,111,613 |
Recent contract notices
Where Helm fits
Helm watches the open tenders on the portals it is licensed to read and scores each one 0 to 100 against your capability statement, every point named. The award record above is the same record the score uses for buyer history. Open the live tenders or start free and set your profile to this work.
Guides for this work
Records refreshed 23 September 2026 with Helm's daily ingest.
Contract notice data from AusTender (tenders.gov.au) weekly exports, licensed under CC BY 3.0 AU via data.gov.au.
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