FOCUp

Follow the Money · Australia

Productivity Commission

Treasury portfolio

$39.4M

$39,423,000 across 1 programs, 2026-27

Source: Portfolio Budget Statements 2026-27, 2026-27 PBS Program Expenses Line Items - Updated 2026-06-18 (w. Corrigenda). Retrieved 25 September 2026.

Administered

$0

Money it hands out on the government's behalf — grants, benefits, subsidies.

Departmental

$39.4M

What it costs to run: staff, property, suppliers.

Contracts published

62

$4.9M in total

Programs

Each line is a program in the budget papers, with what it is given. The category is FOCUp's, mapped from the published program name; a blank means no rule matched it plainly, which is recorded rather than guessed.

ProgramCategoryAdministeredDepartmentalTotal

Program 1.1: Productivity Commission

Outcome 1: Well-informed policy decision-making and public understanding on matters relating to Australia’s productivity and living standards, based on independent and transparent analysis from a community-wide perspective

2026-27 PBS PC · retrieved 25 September 2026

Not classified—$39.4M$39.4M100.0%

Largest contracts

The 25 largest of 62. A contract notice is the value of an agreement over its whole term, not money spent in a year, so these are never added to the budget figures.

SupplierForTermValue

Data#3 Pty Ltd

Microsoft Volume Licensing Solution VSA6CN425361030 June 2026 to 29 June 2031$1.4M

Hays Specialist Recruitment (Aust) P/L

Labour hire for Finance positionCN42425631 June 2026 to 30 November 2026$252.7K

Karlka Recruiting Group Pty Ltd

Labour Hire - Casual Media Editor and AdvisorCN416952713 July 2025 to 8 January 2026$197.0K

Today Strategic Design

Website support and maintenanceCN419702115 October 2025 to 1 October 2026$193.6K

Streem Pty Ltd

Media monitoringCN419709520 October 2025 to 17 October 2027$153.4K

Cushman and Wakefield Pty Ltd

Property Operating Expenses (pass through costs)CN426481730 June 2026 to 29 June 2027$142.1K

Cushman & Wakefield Pty Ltd

Property Management ServicesCN418817830 June 2025 to 29 June 2028$140.0K

Cushman and Wakefield Pty Ltd

Property Operating Expenses (pass through costs)CN426481630 June 2025 to 29 June 2026$125.5K

Hays Specialist Recruitment (Aust) P/L

Casual media producer and podcasterCN417430815 June 2025 to 9 December 2026$120.0K

Amnesium Pty Ltd

AvePoint subscription renewal - 2 yearsCN418328222 August 2025 to 21 August 2027$99.7K

RP Data Pty Ltd t/a Cotality

Data subscriptionCN425128317 June 2026 to 16 June 2027$86.3K

EBSCO International Inc

Subscriptions for media and research databasesCN425723830 June 2026 to 29 June 2027$80.0K

EBSCO International Inc

Subcription for journals and publicationsCN416580930 June 2025 to 29 June 2026$79.5K

Today Strategic Design

Drupal website codingCN419092024 September 2025 to 30 December 2025$77.0K

Officeworks Ltd

Office suppliesCN417580230 June 2025 to 12 December 2029$70.0K

Comcare

Comcare Annual Membership Premium 2025/26CN42110348 July 2025 to 7 July 2026$69.3K

Switch Connect Pty Ltd

Microsoft Teams Calling and Voice ServicesCN425728430 June 2026 to 29 June 2028$65.0K

Chandler Macleod Group Limited

Finance Officer temporary staffCN419366721 September 2025 to 20 March 2026$64.8K

Victoria University

CGE modelling of dataCN42413466 May 2026 to 29 June 2026$63.2K

Christopher Murphy

CGE modellingCN418385327 August 2025 to 2 November 2025$60.3K

OpenAI

AI subscriptionsCN420235419 October 2025 to 18 October 2026$60.0K

Comcare

Comcare Annual Membership Premium 2024/25CN421103310 July 2024 to 7 July 2025$57.2K

Cirrus Networks (ACT) Pty Ltd

iBOSS software subscriptionCN419709730 October 2025 to 29 October 2026$55.1K

Victoria University

Economic modellingCN416711824 June 2025 to 29 June 2025$54.6K

Tonic Technologies Pty Ltd

Technology One supportCN419695831 October 2025 to 30 December 2026$53.1K
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