Web server software package

Pick 48222000 when the deliverable is packaged web server software bought by the licence, not a custom-built system or a service wrapped around it. The cleanest test: if what gets accepted and paid for is a product licence to a ready-made web-serving component, this is the code. If the accepted output is bespoke development effort, the work belongs under the 72-series software development codes instead.

The boundary that trips contracting authorities is the line between this package code and the services codes. Buying the software is 48222000; paying someone to write, integrate or maintain it is a 72-series matter. Many real contracts blend a licence with installation and support, so tag the primary CPV code by whichever dominates the statement of work.

Watch the siblings too. Email server software is 48223000 and browsing software is 48221000, even though all three are internet and intranet packages. Where a single subscription bundles web serving with collaboration, cloud or other software, set the primary code by the dominant component and accept that authorities often default upward to the broader parent 48220000. Across the full window this is a moderately used code: 71 awards (TED 2009-2025).

Winners under 48222000 are software resellers, licensing specialists and platform integrators, not bespoke development shops. Because the procured object is a ready-made product licence, the award rewards authorised-reseller status, clear licence-metric pricing (per core, per server, per user) and a credible installation and rollout plan far more than a development portfolio.

Expect the package itself to be the easy part and the surrounding terms to decide the award: support tiers, version-upgrade rights, and how cleanly the web-serving layer slots into the authority's existing estate. Suppliers active under the broader internet and intranet parent (48220000) and the 72-series development and maintenance codes bid here too whenever a licence appears inside a larger programme.

Worth being blunt about: this is a procurement-by-licence code, so the contest is usually won on commercial terms and reseller credibility rather than engineering depth, and the incumbent that already supplies the authority's platform holds a real edge on renewal. France, Lithuania and Spain account for the bulk of historical activity (TED 2009-2025), so a multi-country licensing footprint helps more than it would on a single-market code.