Procurement Investigation

The IPP Scoreboard: Agencies Failing the 3% Target

The Indigenous Procurement Policy was set in 2015 with a 3% target for contracts to Indigenous-led businesses. In 2025, only of federal+state agencies met that target. National share: %. Many agencies sit on hundreds of millions in contracts at 0% Indigenous spend.

Total 2025 contracts

Indigenous share (target: 3%)

Agencies meeting 3% target

$50M+ agencies at 0% Indigenous

Year-Over-Year Trend

Year	Total Contracts	Indigenous	Share	Meeting Target	Agencies

$50M+ agencies with 0% Indigenous spend (2025)

These agencies awarded $50M or more in contracts in 2025 but zero of those contracts went to Indigenous-led suppliers. Each name + dollar figure is one investigative story.

Agency	Total Contracts	Total Value	Indigenous

Best performers (≥3% Indigenous share)

No agencies hitting 3% in the >$10M tier this year.

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Methodology

Source: AusTender contracts (federal + state, 770K records) joined to gs_entities by supplier ABN.
Indigenous supplier: any of: is_community_controlled, is_supply_nation_certified, entity_type=indigenous_corp, or tagged bbf-listed. Combined coverage ~13,300 entities.
Target: The IPP target is 3% of contract value to Indigenous-led suppliers (federal Commonwealth Procurement Policy 2015; state targets vary).
Excluded: agencies with under $100K total spend per year (signal-to-noise).
Limitations: some Indigenous-led suppliers may not yet carry the flag in our graph; this UNDER-reports Indigenous share. The opposite direction (over-reporting) requires false certification, which is rare. The 3% target is a federal Commonwealth-level metric; individual agency targets may differ. State agencies appear here because most state procurement policies mirror or exceed the federal target.
Source MV: mv_indigenous_procurement_score (2,168 agency-year rows, 2019-2025).

This is a living investigation. All data is sourced from public AusTender records. Last updated: April 2026.