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CPV 48151000

Computer control system

A computer control system is the software that runs an industrial process automatically: it reads sensors, applies control logic, and drives equipment such as pumps, valves, turbines and breakers, usually through a SCADA or DCS layer. Under CPV code 48151000, a contracting authority is buying that control system, the supervisory and process-control software package itself, not the physical instrumentation underneath it.

The code is the working leaf inside Industrial control software package (48150000). It carries real scale: 301 awards (TED 2009-2026), at a mean of about €2.7M across the 183 awards with disclosed values. Czechia, Poland and France place the most. The values run high because these systems sit at the centre of power plants, water utilities, grids and large facilities, so a single award often covers modernising or replacing the control system on a whole unit.

In practice the scope clusters around process industries: distributed control system (DCS) upgrades on power-generation blocks, SCADA consolidation for grid and water operators, and the migration of an ageing control platform to a current release. The software is the deliverable, but it almost always lands as part of a wider automation programme on existing plant.

Public search demand for the bare term is low (the phrase reads as a generic engineering concept, not a procurement query), so contracting authorities reach this code through the parent category or an existing automation framework rather than by searching for it.

When to use this code

For buyers contracting authority

Choose 48151000 when the deliverable is the control-system software that supervises and automates a physical process: the SCADA or DCS package, its control logic, and the human-machine interface that operators watch. A power utility modernising the automation on a generating block, a water authority consolidating several SCADA systems into one, or a grid operator migrating a control platform to a new release all sit cleanly here.

The boundary that trips contracting authorities is the hardware line. Telemetry and control equipment (32441200) is the instrumentation and field hardware; 48151000 is the software layer that runs on top of it. Where a single award bundles both, tag by the dominant deliverable, and keep it here when the control software is the main purchase.

The other ambiguity is upward: 48150000 is the broader Industrial control software package parent. Reach for the 48151000 leaf when the contract is specifically the computer control system, and default to the parent only when the scope is wider or genuinely unclear.

For suppliers bidding

Winners under 48151000 are industrial-automation integrators and control-system houses, not general application developers. The work rewards deep platform credentials on the major DCS and SCADA stacks (the historical awards name Ovation, ZAT, Network Manager and similar), plus the engineering discipline to commission software on live plant without tripping production. If you bid, lead with named reference sites on comparable units and the specific platform you are certified on.

This is a real pipeline rather than an occasional code: 301 awards across the window (TED 2009-2026), at a high mean of about €2.7M among disclosed values, which reflects how much sits inside one control-system contract. The incumbent that installed or maintains the existing platform holds a strong edge, because migrating a control system carries operational risk a contracting authority is reluctant to hand to a stranger.

Activity concentrates in Czechia, Poland and France (TED 2009-2026), and the sector skews to power, grid and water, so a credible track record in process industries matters more than a broad software catalogue. Suppliers active under industrial control software development (72212150) bid here too whenever a packaged control system is the output rather than a bespoke build.

Industries and typical projects

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Commonly confused with

48150000
The broader Industrial control software package parent; pick the 48151000 leaf when the contract is specifically the computer control system.
32441200
That code covers the telemetry and control hardware in the field; 48151000 is the supervisory and process-control software running on top of it.
72212150
Development services build bespoke industrial-control software; choose 48151000 when the deliverable is a supplied or modernised control-system package.

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Hierarchy

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Documented June 2026 · AI-augmented body, human-reviewed before publication. Editorial policy.