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MNSP_FILETRK

MNSP_FILETRK shows all MNSPOFFERS transmitted to the MMS system.

Deprecation Warning

This table is in the HISTORICAL TABLES package, so is likely deprecated.

MNSP_FILETRK is confidential to the relevant participant.

Source

MNSP_FILETRK updates for every submitted MNSP bid.

Volume

4000 per year, being one per bid containing an MNSP bid

Column Schema

FILENAME

File name for default bids, bids, rebids, re-offers or meter files, as appropriate to table

SQL Type: VARCHAR2(40) Polars Type: str

This column is mandatory, and a primary key.

OFFERDATE

The actual date and time the bid file was submitted by the participant

Warning

Despite what the name suggests, this is a datetime, not a date.

SQL Type: DATE Polars Type: pl.Datetime()

This column is mandatory, and a primary key.

Example: 2026/01/20 00:05:00

PARTICIPANTID

Participant Identifier

For more information, see the dedicated documentation page.

SQL Type: VARCHAR2(10) Polars Type: pl.Categorical

This column is mandatory, and a primary key.

SETTLEMENTDATE

Market Date from which bid is active

Warning

Despite what the name suggests, this is a datetime, not a date.

SQL Type: DATE Polars Type: pl.Datetime()

This column is mandatory, and a primary key.

Example: 2026/01/20 00:05:00

ACKFILENAME

Acknowledge file name for bids, rebids

SQL Type: VARCHAR2(40) Polars Type: str

This column is not mandatory.

LASTCHANGED

Last date and time record changed

For more information, see the dedicated documentation page.

SQL Type: DATE Polars Type: pl.Datetime()

This column is not mandatory.

Example: 2026/01/20 00:05:00

STATUS

Load status [SUCCESSFUL/CORRUPT]

SQL Type: VARCHAR2(10) Polars Type: str

This column is not mandatory.

New Data Timing

A submitted MNSP bid

Code Examples

Polars

Casting is enums, categoricals etc is not essential, but may speed up parsing. Swapping int for pl.UInt16, pl.Int32 would also speed up parsing. However some of the datatypes are inferred, so they may be wrong.

This code deduplicates for you. Deduplication is normally only required across multiple months.

This code assumes that all columns are present, which may not be true for older files.

import polars as pl
import polars.selectors as cs

# e.g. "2029/03/15 00:05:00"
dt_s_fmt = "%Y/%m/%d %H:%M:%S"

csv_paths = ["SOMEFILE.CSV", "OTHERFILE.CSV"]

lf = (
    pl.concat(
        [
            pl.scan_csv(
                csv_path,  # must be unzipped beforehand
                skip_rows=1,  # skip the header
                infer_schema=False,  # much faster
            )
            .filter(cs.by_index(0) == "D")  # drop the footer
            .select(~cs.by_index(range(4)))  # drop metadata columns
            for csv_path in csv_paths
        ],
        how="diagonal_relaxed",
    )
    .with_columns(
        pl.col("OFFERDATE", "SETTLEMENTDATE", "LASTCHANGED").str.strptime(
            pl.Datetime, dt_s_fmt
        ),
    )
    .cast(
        {
            "FILENAME": str,
            "PARTICIPANTID": pl.Categorical,
            "ACKFILENAME": str,
            "STATUS": str,
        }
    )
    # Deduplicate
    # We want one row per ['FILENAME', 'OFFERDATE', 'PARTICIPANTID', 'SETTLEMENTDATE']
    # Tie-breaker: greatest value of ['LASTCHANGED']
    .sort(["LASTCHANGED"], descending=False)
    .unique(
        subset=["FILENAME", "OFFERDATE", "PARTICIPANTID", "SETTLEMENTDATE"], keep="last"
    )
)

Nemosis

This table is not yet available in Nemosis.

Availability

Visibility: Private

This table is not available in the public monthly MMSDM archive. Is is only available to registered market participants over FTP inside a VPN.

Deduplication and PDR Loader Configuration

The primary keys are:

The transaction type is "insert", which means that you will usually not see duplicate data. If you do, you can deduplicate based on the primary keys, without sorting first. Rows from different files with the same primary keys should have the same values.

PDR Loader configuration is:

Report Name Report Subtype Version
BID MNSP_FILETRK 1

This means that the CSV files start with metadata columns:

I,BID,MNSP_FILETRK,1,...
D,BID,MNSP_FILETRK,1,...

Indexes

This page as JSON (schema documented here, but may change)

Download a JSON Schema specification for this table.

Official AEMO schema documentation

Other Information

Package: HISTORICAL TABLES