Government work for professional services.
Consultancies, legal, audit, advisory and administration firms selling expertise to government. The published record holds 5,481 contract notices across 6 categories that make up this work, $6,978,995,922 of it with a published value. Below: the buyers that award it, the notices, and where Helm fits.
How this work is bought
Professional services are the most panel-driven part of government buying: management advisory, legal and audit panels are standing arrangements, and the published record shows call-offs against them as well as open tenders. Getting onto the panel is often the tender that matters.
The categories on this page: Management advisory services, Management support services, Legal services, Audit services, Business administration services, Temporary personnel services.
Buyers that award professional services work
By notice count, as published; disclosed values are the sum of the notices that publish one.
| buyers | notices | disclosed value |
|---|---|---|
| Department of Defence | 1,030 | A$4,359,256,412 |
| Department of Home Affairs | 381 | A$216,184,872 |
| Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions | 315 | A$18,878,475 |
| Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade | 253 | A$138,068,401 |
| Services Australia | 250 | A$274,432,973 |
| Department of Veterans' Affairs | 244 | A$58,831,302 |
| Department of Health, Disability and Ageing | 218 | A$93,643,613 |
| Australian Securities and Investments Commission | 144 | A$55,495,841 |
| Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water | 121 | A$50,306,537 |
| Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry | 113 | A$55,668,342 |
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.
Awarded tender data from QTenders (qtenders.hpw.qld.gov.au), Queensland Government, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
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