Vehicle Rental Services

Statistical Approach

The following data is from the Vehicle Rental Services Arrangement. Reporting is updated quarterly and is collected from individual suppliers on the arrangement. Total vehicles are based on the date a vehicle was booked.

Total Expenditure

From 1 July 2025 to 31 December 2025 the Commonwealth expenditure for Vehicle Rental Services represented $20.8 million across 32.7k vehicle bookings. Of these bookings, 89 percent of bookings by value were made for domestic locations.

Figure 1: Total Expenditure shows 39.9M in 2024-25 and 20.8M in 2025-26

*2025-26 includes data from 1 July 2025 to 31 December 2025 
 

Figure 2: Total Bookings shows 70.0K in 2024-25 and 32.7k in 2025-26 on the bar graph

*2025-26 includes data from 1 July 2025 to 31 December 2025
 

Top Entities

EntityValueVehicle Rental
Department of Defence16.00m23,183
Department of Home Affairs1.06m1,692
Australian Federal Police0.85m1,382
Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry0.63m1,032
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade0.18m438
DCCEEW0.15m328
Services Australia0.15m380
Director of National Parks0.11m191
Bureau of Meteorology0.11m188
Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission0.10m395
Murray-Darling Basin Authority0.09m175
Federal Court of Australia0.09m100
Australian Bureau of Statistics0.08m124
Civil Aviation Safety Authority0.08m236
Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications, Sport and the Arts0.08m180
Department of Industry, Science and Resources0.07m131
Department of Health, Disability and Ageing0.07m208
Department of Education0.07m214
Geoscience Australia0.06m73
Comcare0.06m96
Department of Social Services0.05m93
Australian Electoral Commission0.05m113
National Disability Insurance Agency0.05m133
Department of Veterans' Affairs0.04m146
Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation0.04m73
Total20.32m31,304

Data includes bookings between 1 July 2025 to 31 December 2025

Top Domestic Locations

StateTotal ValueTotal Vehicle Rental
QLD$5.03m7,985
NT$2.76m2,180
ACT$2.50m6,418
NSW$2.44m4,540
WA$2.21m2,656
SA$1.68m3,351
VIC$1.44m3,560
TAS$0.27m605
Total$18.32m31,294

Data includes bookings between 1 July 2025 to 31 December 2025


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