Market intelligence, procurement guides, and field notes for civil construction firms. Fortnight wrap published every second Friday.
We said we were building a machine-readable view of the Australian civil procurement market. This is what it shows. 2,079 procurement facts. 11 active tenders. 349 planning notices. Here is what matters to a civil contractor this week.
Twenty tools became four. Three god files got split. A 392-line hotspot that had absorbed 67 commits in 90 days was broken into domain files. And a boolean bypass that lived in six places across the auth stack got replaced with a proper role migration.
Every Australian state legally requires contract awards to be disclosed. Not one requires them in machine-readable form. The Commonwealth calls OCDS adoption cost-prohibitive while spending $580M to rebuild one website. We're building the fix as open source.
Two weeks of work. Claude can now register itself against our MCP server, ask the right question against the right data source, and trust the answer came back through audited adapter calls.
Most civil contractors leave the Defence market on the table because they assume the security setup will take years. For the open-tender packages on AusTender - pavements, fencing, hardstands, drainage - it doesn't. Here's the actual minimum.
Estimating, field, and finance run on different platforms. They drift. The data is there - it's just unstructured against the entities that matter.
Your CRM tracks what you quoted. AusTender records what your competitors won. The gap between those two is the market you're not pricing for.
CKAN, AusTender, ABR, BOM. No scraping. No AI-generated content. Just four public feeds, structured against the entities that matter.
