Flectra Radar
Know a council’s next tender before your competitors do — sometimes before the council does.
Councils commit money in public, in a budget line, a resolution or an officer report, months before the tender advertises. We back-traced hundreds of NSW council awards to the minutes that preceded them: two in three named capital projects were visible before the tender, a median of over a year ahead. We tell you what’s coming while there’s still time to shape the spec.
128 councils publish. Nobody reads them all.
Every NSW council telegraphs what it’s about to buy — in a budget line, a resolution, an officer report — months before the tender lands on AusTender or VendorPanel. All 128 publish these minutes weekly. Reading them is public and free. Reading all of them is the problem. By the time a tender is advertised, the incumbent has a two-to-four-month head start and you get a three-to-six week window to respond. The money was in the documents the whole time. We read the minutes so you don’t have to, and we tell you while there’s still time to get in front of it.
How it works
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We read every council's public record
Agendas, minutes and officer reports from NSW councils, published weekly under the state's transparency rules. The same documents anyone could read, if anyone had time to read 128 councils' worth.
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We pull out the commitments that matter
Budget approvals, project endorsements, contract awards and expiries, resolutions to go to market. The moments a council commits money to something you could supply.
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We match each one to your category and territory
Every signal is tagged to what it is and where it is, so you only see the ones relevant to your business.
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You get the alert before the tender exists
Each alert links straight back to the council page it came from, so you can verify it yourself and act on it weeks or months before it's a public tender everyone else can see.
The signal is already public. We caught it.
We back-traced hundreds of NSW council contract awards to the minutes that preceded them. Here is what the paper trail looks like when you actually read it.
named council capital-works projects were visible in the public record before the tender was advertised
median lead time on those capital projects, over a year of warning before the tender lands
longest lead we found: Sydney's minutes named the Sydney Park works 185 weeks before the award
council contracts with a future expiry date already sitting in public registers, a dated re-tender calendar with no guesswork
Case studies
Environmental consultancy for Sydney Park (landfill remediation works)
Sydney's minutes named the Sydney Park environmental consultancy work three and a half years before the contract was awarded.
Advanced Waste Water Treatment Plant, Dubbo
Dubbo Regional flagged its Advanced Waste Water Treatment Plant in the minutes almost three years ahead of the award.
Water Reticulation Upgrade – Stage 3
Cobar's minutes surfaced the Stage 3 water reticulation upgrade 145 weeks before the construction contract was awarded — a small shire matching metro lead times.
Apex Oval Sports Lighting Upgrade
The Apex Oval floodlighting budget line ran through Dubbo's budget cycles from 2022 and gave a three-year lead on the eventual award.
Microsoft enterprise software agreement
Sydney's record flagged the enterprise software procurement 151 weeks before the tender. The kind of IT commitment a council makes in the open, long before it becomes a contract.
Who it’s for
Flectra Radar is built for bid and BD managers who sell to NSW councils and are tired of hearing about a contract once the race has already started. These are the three categories we’re focused on first.
Waste and resource recovery
Built for operators chasing decade-long contracts worth tens of millions. The buyer pool is small and the going-to-market decisions are put to council early and formally, well before the tender.
Council IT, ERP and software
Built for challenger vendors during the legacy-to-SaaS migration wave. A council's move off an incumbent system is a multi-year decision made in the open, and an early alert is worth the most when you're trying to displace someone.
Engineering and professional services
Built for firms chasing capital works above the panel threshold. The upstream capital-program signal shows up in the record well before the tender, so you can build the relationship before the spec is written.
See what your councils are about to buy.
Twenty minutes. We’ll show you real signals from the councils you sell to and what a lead feed for your category would look like. If it’s not early enough to be useful, we’ll tell you.