ACT Government Contracts from 2006 to 2017

ACT Government Contracts Report contains contract records from the Australian Capital Territory government. The data spans from 2006 until November 2017 and was published by the ACT Government Open Data team, authored by Helen Meek.

Use Cases

• Analyze contract award frequency and trends over the 2006-2017 time range using Directorate tags
• Track contract lifecycle and status changes via Contract Number identifiers
• Examine spending patterns by categorizing contracts using Contract Name descriptors

Strengths

• Data covers a substantial 11-year period from 2006 to 2017
• Published in multiple machine-readable formats including RDF, JSON, CSV, and XML
• Includes structured metadata tags such as Directorate, Contract Number, and Contract Name

Limitations

• Unknown total record count and column structure limits analytical planning
• Data is temporally stale, with no new records after November 2017
• Potential gaps or inconsistencies due to unspecified data collection methodology

Provenance

Source

ACT Government Open Data

Collection Method

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Time Range

2006 to November 2017

Freshness

Data is not current; last update recorded was March 2026, but content ends in 2017.

Geography

Australian Capital Territory, Australia