National Blood Authority
National Blood Authority
Health, Disability and Ageing portfolio
Verified figures
- Contracts (all years): 360
- Contract value (all years): 5,358,001,773 AUD
- Contract value (2026): 11,376,318 AUD
- APS headcount: 96
- Budget 2026-27: 2,467,982 thousand AUD
- Highest total remuneration: 442,761 AUD
- Directory roles: 3
Figures use publishable matches only (alias, abn, exact, case, punct, trading_name, wide_exact). Retrieved 2026-09-01.
Coverage — named in the headline (3)
- 2023-07-26 — Utopia S5 E8 recap: NBA’s ESG FOMO, SMH
- 2023-06-14 — Utopia S5 E2 recap: NBA in the doghouse over solar panel scheme
- 2016-02-29 — NBA case study: virtual desktop system a bloody good upgrade
Passing mentions (10 shown)
Mentioned in the text but not the headline, so often not about this agency.
- 2025-10-02 — Movers & Shakers: Competition taskforce reappointed
- 2023-08-21 — Maybe the problem is your implementation?
- 2023-07-28 — Five things we loved in Utopia’s season five
- 2023-07-19 — Utopia S5 E7 recap: So many system errors
- 2023-07-12 — Utopia S5 E6 recap: Going off the rails
- 2023-07-05 — Utopia S5 E5 recap: A song of ministerial ice and TikTok fire
- 2023-06-29 — Utopia S5 E4 recap: The rain in Spain
- 2023-06-21 — Utopia S5 E3 recap: Promises, promises, promises
- 2023-06-08 — Utopia S5 E1 recap: Freeway delays and a legalled farewell
- 2023-05-10 — ‘Shovel ready’ new Utopia season to air next month on ABC
Payments to organisations — as reported by the agency
| Category | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Non-consultancy contracts | 20 | $3,214,360,977 |
| Category not stated in the report | 12 | $1,455,855,925 |
| Consultancy | 17 | $599,230 |
Largest recipients across all reported years
| Organisation | ABN | Reported total | Years |
|---|---|---|---|
| CSL Behring (Australia) Pty Ltd (48 160 734 761) | — | $1,156,349,323 | 2020-21, 2021-22 |
| Australian Red Cross Lifeblood | 50169561394 | $859,232,453 | 2022-23, 2023-24, 2024-25 |
| Australian Red Cross Blood Service (50 169 561 394) | — | $769,945,550 | 2020-21 |
| Australian Red Cross LifeBlood (50 169 561 394) | — | $705,323,530 | 2021-22 |
| CSL Behring (Australia) Pty Ltd | 48160734761 | $688,508,731 | 2022-23, 2023-24, 2024-25 |
| Grifols Australia Pty Ltd | 35050104875 | $108,455,573 | 2022-23, 2023-24, 2024-25 |
| Grifols Australia Pty Ltd (35 050 104 875) | — | $97,364,456 | 2020-21, 2021-22 |
| Roche Products Pty Ltd | 70000132865 | $63,727,503 | 2022-23, 2023-24, 2024-25 |
| Roche Products Pty Ltd (70 000 132 865) | — | $63,485,892 | 2021-22 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals Australia Pty Ltd | 71095610870 | $59,750,503 | 2024-25 |
| Novo Nordisk Pharmaceuticals Pty Ltd (40 002 879 996) | — | $38,910,440 | 2020-21 |
| Octapharma Australia Pty Ltd (23 109 574 692) | — | $34,874,263 | 2021-22 |
From the expenditure disclosures in each annual report — a separate source from the AusTender contract figures above, and not directly comparable with them.
Workforce profile — as at 2025-12-31
| Measure | Value | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| % CALD | 22.8% | at this date |
| % Female | 75.0% | at this date |
| % at the APS classification level | 52.1% | at this date |
| % non-ongoing | 1.0% | at this date |
| % part-time (ongoing employees) | 10.5% | at this date |
| % who have worked in only one agency (ongoing employees) | 42.1% | at this date |
| % with a bachelors degree or higher | 74.3% | at this date |
| % with a disability | 10.4% | at this date |
| Exit rate - from agency (ongoing employees) | 11.7% | Year ending December 2025 |
| Headcount | 96 | at this date |
| Mean Age (years) | 42.8 years | at this date |
| Median LOS in APS (years) | 6.7 years | at this date |
| Separation rate - from APS (ongoing employees) | 5.3% | at this date |
APSC APS Employment Data, counting this agency including any bodies beneath it. Headcount, not FTE — the APSED release does not publish FTE.
Year by year
| Measure | 2010-11 | 2012-13 | 2013-14 | 2014-15 | 2015-16 | 2016-17 | 2017-18 | 2018-19 | 2019-20 | 2020-21 | 2021-22 | 2022-23 | 2023-24 | 2024-25 | 2025-26 | 2026-27 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| APS headcount | 50 | 54 | 56 | 56 | 56 | 57 | 57 | 59 | 63 | 63 | 69 | 79 | 79 | 96 | 96 | |
| Contracts | 59 | 80 | 57 | 39 | 38 | 32 | 41 | 14 | ||||||||
| Contract value | $8,543,885 | $4,258,661,846 | $23,462,354 | $491,904,128 | $14,835,990 | $8,469,660 | $546,709,796 | $5,414,113 | ||||||||
| Budget ($000) | 2,138,909 | 2,467,982 | ||||||||||||||
| KMP disclosed | 3 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 8 | 10 | 2 | |||||||||
| Top total pay | $391,506 | $384,911 | $400,186 | $395,936 | $385,808 | $425,677 | $442,761 |
An empty cell means no publishable row for that year — unknown, not nil. Never read a blank as a fall to zero.
Sources — annual reports
Each link opens transparency.gov.au — the published source the figures were read from. The label names the table to look for.
° The portal does not publish a path for this report, so the link opens the agency's reports on transparency.gov.au rather than that year directly. Pick the year from there.
