Open tenders and grants, from licensed sources.

Live feeds refresh daily and hourly from AusTender, GrantConnect, QTenders, QBuild eTender, NT Tenders Online, VendorPanel council listings, Brisbane City Council's public listing pages and the Queensland Grants Finder, plus BuyICT. The same tender published on more than one portal appears once, with its other listings noted on the record, and every record shows where it came from and when it was indexed.

We're honest about the edges: the coverage page inside Helm states which portals are live, which are awaiting permission, and which have declined automated access, so you always know what you're looking at. Anything Helm doesn't index, you can bring yourself: a private tender pasted into Helm gets the full workspace. Helm is an independent platform; we are not affiliated with or endorsed by any government portal, and portal names belong to their owners.

Queensland government work is genuinely scattered: QTenders carries state government tenders, QBuild eTender carries building and road works, many councils buy through VendorPanel, Brisbane City Council runs its own listing pages, and grant programs live in the Queensland Grants Finder. Watching all of them manually is a part-time job.

Helm brings every one of those sources into a single feed, scores each opportunity against your company profile, and alerts you when something new matches or a closing date moves. One list, refreshed daily, instead of five open browser tabs. Responses are always lodged on the source portal under your own registration; Helm prepares you for that moment, it never submits for you.

Every opportunity gets a score against your company profile, and every score is itemised: the score anatomy shows each point it is built from, industry fit, region, capability match, and what would lift it. Nothing hidden, nothing invented. If the score is low, you can see exactly why, and whether it is worth fixing.

One thing the score deliberately is not: a win prediction. Helm scores how well an opportunity fits you and how ready you are to respond. Whether you win is decided by the buyer's evaluation panel, and we won't pretend otherwise.

For a large share of government buying, yes: agencies buy through standing offers and panels, and if you are not on the arrangement you cannot bid on the work that flows through it. The frustrating part is that panels refresh on their own schedule, and most suppliers only hear about a refresh after it closes.

Helm's Panel radar reads AusTender's public standing offer notices daily and lists current arrangements with the expiry dates the source itself publishes. Watch an expiry and you position months ahead instead of finding out from the award notice. Open-market tenders remain the other big share of the market, and that is what the main feed covers.