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CPV 48611000

Database software package

A database software package is the licensed product that stores and queries structured data: the engine, its bundled tools, and the licence or subscription that comes with it. Under CPV code 48611000, a contracting authority is buying that packaged product (think Oracle, INFORMIX, or an analytic database licence), not the consultancy to design a data model or the services to run it.

It sits inside Database systems (48610000), the branch that groups the building blocks of a data platform. The siblings split the rest of that territory: the management engine itself is 48612000 (database-management system), electronic document and records handling is 48613000 (EDM), and instrumentation that collects readings is 48614000 (data-acquisition system). This code is the shrink-wrapped database product and its licence.

The code is a steady mid-volume performer. 505 awards carry it (TED 2009-2026), of which 359 disclose a value, and across those the mean runs to about €1.15M. Germany, Poland and Spain place the most. Commercial database products are typically sold and re-licensed on multi-year cycles, so renewals and subscription access recur alongside one-off purchases.

Public search interest is modest and concentrates on the generic parent term rather than this specific code, so most contracting authorities reach 48611000 through the Database systems category or an existing licensing arrangement, not by searching for the package directly.

Two shapes recur in practice. One is the proprietary database licence plus its support contract, renewed on schedule. The other is paid access to a third-party commercial dataset delivered as a hosted database, where the authority subscribes for a fixed term rather than installing anything.

When to use this code

For buyers contracting authority

Reach for 48611000 when the deliverable is a database product with its licence, not the people or services around it. The clearest neighbour to keep separate is 48612000: a database-management system is the engine treated as a managed capability, while 48611000 is the packaged software and licence bought off the shelf. In day-to-day cataloguing the line blurs, so set the primary CPV code by what the contract actually pays for.

The practical trigger is a named product or subscription. Authorities renewing an existing proprietary database, or buying timed access to a commercial dataset, land here. Where a contract bundles the licence with installation, migration or hosting, keep it under this code only when the software product is the dominant purpose; if integration or operation carries the weight, a 72-series services code fits better.

One more boundary worth flagging: 48613000 (EDM) covers electronic document and records management, which is a different job from a general-purpose database. If the requirement is about storing and retrieving documents rather than structured records, that sibling is the better fit.

For suppliers bidding

Treat this as a licence-and-renewal market before you treat it as a build market. This is a licence market, so the realistic field is the product owner plus its certified resellers and licensing partners; a generalist development shop has little to bid on the licence itself. The disclosed mean of about €1.15M (TED 2009-2026) makes individual awards worth chasing, and the volume of 505 awards (TED 2009-2026) means there are enough to build a pipeline around.

Where you win is on licensing relationship and price at the reseller margin, plus the support and maintenance terms wrapped around the product. Incumbency runs deep: an authority renewing a database it already depends on is rarely shopping for a different engine, so the contest is usually about renewal terms, not replacement.

Neighbouring bidders arrive from the management-engine code (48612000) and from the broader software and data-services codes, and subscription-access contracts pull in specialist data publishers rather than software firms at all. If you are not already inside a given product's reseller channel, this is a hard code to win cold; if you are, it is durable, recurring revenue.

Industries and typical projects

Public sector IT Data analytics Data services System integration Software development

Commonly confused with

48612000
Database-management system is the engine treated as a managed capability; 48611000 is the packaged database product and its licence.
48610000
The parent for database systems as a whole; pick 48611000 only when the contract is specifically the database software package.
48613000
Electronic data management (EDM) handles documents and records, a different job from the general-purpose database 48611000 covers.
48614000
Data-acquisition systems collect readings from instruments and sensors, whereas 48611000 is the database software that stores and queries data.

Example award titles

  • Procurement of software license for the database
  • PNE 240013 - Access to database Compustat (S&P Global) - 4 years subscription
  • Purchase of electronic databases and journals for use by all Tusla staff nationally and 10 staff employed by the research section of the Department of Children and Youth Affairs. The contract wil be for an initial period of 3 years with an option to extend for a further period of 2 years.
  • Zakup licencji bazy danych Oracle. (PL)
  • Pořízení licence Vertica Analytic Database (CZ)
  • Licence a podpora INFORMIX (CZ)

Live tenders (1)

Greece – Database software package – Δράσεις Ψηφιακού Μετασχηματισμού του Δήμου Εορδαίας GR · closes 2026-07-09
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Hierarchy

Parent
48610000
Siblings
486120004861300048614000
Documented June 2026 · AI-augmented body, human-reviewed before publication. Editorial policy.