Australia’s Department of Home Affairs buys across the operational needs of a national border, migration and security administration. Its procurement spans routine services and contracts that support activity across the country, including the controlled destruction and disposal of material that cannot remain in government custody. That makes the scale of a disposal notice relevant to firms assessing whether a national opportunity differs from ordinary departmental work.
KEY NUMBERS
The advertised value of the nationally managed destruction and disposal services notice is 59037441 AUD. That is 366 times the Department’s median notice, making the gap a feature of the purchasing pattern rather than a small variation between similar opportunities. The figure describes the opportunity advertised, not money awarded to a supplier.
The notice title points to a service bought across the Department rather than a narrowly local requirement. That can affect the commercial reading of the opportunity: bidders need to distinguish the advertised requirement from any eventual contract value, and from the pricing, term and scope set out in the procurement documents. The closing date was not published in the supplied information, and framework ceilings are excluded.
The comparison places this disposal notice well outside the Department’s ordinary notice pattern, while other large requirements concern areas such as banking, software support and cloud services. The contrast is useful because it separates a procurement-specific spike from the buyer’s usual purchasing level. A large advertised value is not evidence of impropriety, and it does not establish that the notice will become an award at that value.
| Notice | Published | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Nationally Managed Destruction/Disposal Services | 2026-10-16 | 59,037,441 AUD |
| 0070041811 & 0070041851 & 0070041853 | 2026-05-22 | 4,319,144,780 AUD |
| Transactional Banking Services | 2026-09-30 | 297,457,923 AUD |
| 0070041090 & 0070041317 & 0070041300 | 2026-04-24 | 150,967,724 AUD |
| Software Support and Maintenance | 2026-07-27 | 109,576,244 AUD |
| Cloud Services | 2026-08-07 | 74,702,331 AUD |
The advertised value is 366 times Home Affairs’ median notice, but it is not an awarded value.
WHY IT MATTERS
For suppliers, the useful signal is the difference between a department-wide service requirement and its normal notices. The advertised 59037441 AUD should be read as the opportunity’s stated value, not as confirmed supplier revenue. Firms assessing the notice should test the service scope, delivery coverage and commercial conditions against their capacity, while treating the unusually wide gap as a reason to examine the procurement documents closely rather than as evidence of an award or wrongdoing.
Data: Otnox — live procurement intelligence across 56 markets. Basis: 603 distinct priced notices published by Department of Home Affairs in the last 180 days, values as advertised, 2026-04-22..2026-10-19. Reproducible in the Otnox platform.
