LookAhead Search

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Public Services & WelfareIT & SoftwareMiscellaneous
Contracts on record29$17M in total
Active since2021Latest award Aug 2026
Biggest buyerDepartment of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry25 contracts, $14.2M
Typical contract$551K medianMost between $343K and $794K
Last 12 months3 contracts$663Kdown from $3.6M
Active now7 contracts7 end within 12 months

What they do

LookAhead Search supplies temporary personnel and ICT contractor services, including user researcher and cloud software engineering work, mainly to government departments.

Who buys from them

Its largest buyer is the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry with 25 contracts, followed by the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations and the Digital Transformation Agency.

Contract size

Contracts typically fall between $343K and $794K, with a median of $551K. Its largest include temporary personnel services at $1.2M and $1.1M for the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, and user researcher services at $1.1M for the Digital Transformation Agency.

Recent activity

In the last 12 months there were 3 contracts worth $663K. 7 contracts are active and all end within 12 months, the next in Oct 2026.

Built from awarded contracts on record
Total portfolio
$17,213,626.92
Contracts won
30
Latest win
Oct 2026
MomentumCooling-77%12mo vs prior 12mo
Buyer concentration83%from Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
Expiring soon8contracts up for recompete

Contract history

No contracts match those filters.

Includes consolidated data for: LOOKAHEAD SEARCH PTY LIMITED, LOOKAHEAD SEARCH PTY LTD

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