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Follow the Money · ACT

Australian Capital Territory

Every payment ACT has published, and nothing above it — this government's budget papers are not loaded.

New here? What these numbers mean

A payment is one deal with one company — to build something, run something, or supply something. The money beside it is what the whole deal is worth, from the day it starts to the day it ends. A ten-year deal shows its ten-year price, not one year of it.

So never add those two together. One is a single year of planned spending. The other is the lifetime value of deals, some signed years ago and running for decades. FOCUp keeps them apart for that reason, and so should you when you quote them.

Every figure here was published by the government itself, and every row links back to the page it came from. If FOCUp does not have something, it says so rather than filling the gap.

Payments published

25,183

$4.9B in total, invoices paid 10 November 2024 to 30 September 2026

What ACT publishes

1 of 4 levels below this government

Every government is shown with the same four levels below it, in the same order, so the differences you see are differences in what governments publish — not in how FOCUp lays out a page. Where a level is empty, the reason is the sentence beside it. They are numbered 2 to 5 because the government itself is level 1 — the whole chain is here.

Which parts of government are signing

  1. iCBR

    2,035 notices

    $722.7M17.5%

    $722,735,751

  2. MPC

    1,675 notices

    $570.8M13.8%

    $570,825,191

  3. CHS

    5,362 notices

    $520.5M12.6%

    $520,548,161

  4. CED-C

    1,586 notices

    $302.5M7.3%

    $302,510,220

  5. DCBR

    914 notices

    $284.6M6.9%

    $284,568,611

  6. HCS-Housing

    1,216 notices

    $277.8M6.7%

    $277,843,874

  7. CMTEDD

    1,176 notices

    $260.6M6.3%

    $260,583,974

  8. TCCS

    1,190 notices

    $245.5M5.9%

    $245,459,604

  9. HCS-C

    857 notices

    $183.5M4.4%

    $183,543,291

  10. JACSD

    1,059 notices

    $172.5M4.2%

    $172,520,114

  11. ETD

    1,097 notices

    $163.9M4.0%

    $163,894,787

  12. CED-TCO

    516 notices

    $151.5M3.7%

    $151,529,044

  13. Every other agency (2)

    $271.3M6.6%

    $271,271,567

Each bar is one agency's share of the $4.1B in payments FOCUp has read for ACT, largest first. The colours tell you nothing on their own — unlike the budget pages, no government publishes what a contract is FOR, so FOCUp does not colour these by category and will not guess one.

Largest departments

The ACT’s budget datasets on data.act.gov.au stop at 2020-21. A five-year-old figure beside a current register would read as this year’s spending, so nothing is loaded.

Largest suppliers

By the total of every published invoice paid to them. Added across that whole period, not one year.

  1. THE TRUSTEE FOR CANBERRA METRO TRUST

    $194.6M

  2. ICON SI (AUST) PTY LTD

    $169.7M

  3. ACTEWAGL RETAIL

    $159.1M

  4. BMD CONSTRUCTIONS PTY LTD

    $144.3M

  5. COMENSURA PTY LIMITED

    $137.4M

  6. MULTIPLEX CONSTRUCTIONS PTY LTD

    $128.1M

  7. LENDLEASE BUILDING PTY LTD

    $115.2M

  8. PROGRAMMED FACILITY MANAGEMENT

    $101.3M

  9. WODEN CONTRACTORS PTY LTD

    $98.4M

  10. COLIN JOSS & CO PTY LTD

    $95.0M

Newest payments

The most recent payments ACT has announced.

  1. AXIOM ASSOCIATES

    $27.4K

    ACTAO

    Professional services provided to Financial Audits.

    Announced 30 September 2026 · Still running

    Started 25 September 2026. No end date published.

    Read ACT's own notice
  2. ERNST & YOUNG

    $148.5K

    ACTAO

    Professional services provided to Financial Audits.

    Announced 30 September 2026 · Still running

    Started 29 September 2026. No end date published.

    Read ACT's own notice
  3. ULVERSCROFT LARGE PRINT AUST PTY LTD

    $65.1K

    CED-C

    Enhancement of Library Collections

    Announced 30 September 2026 · Still running

    Started 28 September 2026. No end date published.

    Read ACT's own notice
  4. MOTOROLA AUSTRALIA PTY LTD

    $146.4K

    CED-TCO

    Warranty for bus radios

    Announced 30 September 2026 · Still running

    Started 8 September 2026. No end date published.

    Read ACT's own notice
  5. SMEC

    $29.5K

    SLA

    Site Investigation Report - Callam Offices

    Announced 29 September 2026 · Still running

    Started 29 September 2026. No end date published.

    Read ACT's own notice
  6. GROUP ONE PTY LTD

    $391.5K

    SLA

    Civil Engineering and Landscape Construction - Lawson

    Announced 29 September 2026 · Still running

    Started 29 September 2026. No end date published.

    Read ACT's own notice
  7. GROUP ONE PTY LTD

    $234.7K

    SLA

    Civil Engineering and Landscape Construction - Lawson

    Announced 29 September 2026 · Still running

    Started 25 September 2026. No end date published.

    Read ACT's own notice
  8. GHD PTY LTD

    $38.0K

    SLA

    Technical and Cost Independent Review - West Belconnen Landfill

    Announced 29 September 2026 · Still running

    Started 28 September 2026. No end date published.

    Read ACT's own notice

Largest payments

Each row is one bill the government has actually paid. This is money that has already left the public purse on the day shown — not the value of a deal that may still be running.

Covers invoices paid 10 November 2024 to 30 September 2026. Showing contracts published or finished in the last 2 years, plus anything still running. For older contracts, visit the ACT Notifiable Invoices Register.

  1. INSIGHT ENTERPRISES AUSTRALIA PTY LTD

    DCBR

    Still runningStarted 5 July 2026. No end date published, announced 8 July 2026.

    $23.0M

    Source
  2. LENDLEASE BUILDING PTY LTD

    MPC

    Still runningStarted 27 February 2025. No end date published, announced 5 March 2025.

    $19.3M

    Source
  3. LENDLEASE BUILDING PTY LTD

    MPC

    Still runningStarted 3 February 2025. No end date published, announced 5 February 2025.

    $18.9M

    Source
  4. LENDLEASE BUILDING PTY LTD

    MPC

    Still runningStarted 4 December 2024. No end date published.

    $18.2M

    Source
  5. BMD CONSTRUCTIONS PTY LTD

    MPC

    Still runningStarted 5 May 2025. No end date published, announced 12 May 2025.

    $18.1M

    Source
  6. LENDLEASE BUILDING PTY LTD

    MPC

    Still runningStarted 2 April 2025. No end date published, announced 7 April 2025.

    $14.9M

    Source
  7. CLAYTON UTZ

    HCS-Housing

    Still runningStarted 16 June 2026. No end date published, announced 24 June 2026.

    $14.6M

    Source
  8. BMD CONSTRUCTIONS PTY LTD

    MPC

    Still runningStarted 14 July 2025. No end date published, announced 21 July 2025.

    $14.0M

    Source
  9. BMD CONSTRUCTIONS PTY LTD

    MPC

    Still runningStarted 2 June 2025. No end date published, announced 16 June 2025.

    $12.1M

    Source
  10. ACTEWAGL RETAIL

    CMTEDD

    Still runningStarted 16 October 2024. No end date published, announced 11 November 2024.

    $11.4M

    Source
All 25,183 payments

Largest projects

Capital works are in the ACT budget papers as documents rather than as a project register.

Programs

No figures loaded. Same release, same year: there is no current published figure for what an ACT output costs.

Sources

Every figure above comes from one of these publications, and every row in the register carries its own link back to the government's notice. Where a level has no source, it says so and why, rather than leaving a gap.

Departments

No source loaded. The ACT’s budget datasets on data.act.gov.au stop at 2020-21. A five-year-old figure beside a current register would read as this year’s spending, so nothing is loaded. ACT publishes its budget at www.treasury.act.gov.au.

Programs

No source loaded. Same release, same year: there is no current published figure for what an ACT output costs. ACT publishes its budget at www.treasury.act.gov.au.

Projects

No source loaded. Capital works are in the ACT budget papers as documents rather than as a project register. ACT publishes its budget at www.treasury.act.gov.au.

Payments