Database-management system

Reach for 48612000 when the data-storage engine is the thing being procured: a new database platform, a licence renewal for an existing one (Oracle, SQL Server and similar named products show up under this code), or the implementation and support that wraps a managed data layer.

The line that trips contracting authorities is the one against 48611000, Database software package. In practice the two overlap heavily, since a management system is delivered as a package; the working split is that 48611000 leans toward an off-the-shelf product purchase, while 48612000 covers the system as deployed and run. Where a contract bundles the licence with implementation and ongoing operation, 48612000 is the safer primary code.

Two more neighbours matter. If the deliverable is records-handling and document lifecycle rather than the raw data engine, that is electronic data management (48613000). If the system's job is to capture readings from instruments or sensors, that is data acquisition (48614000). Set the primary CPV code by the dominant purpose, not by the fact that a database sits somewhere in the stack.

Where the money concentrates here is not the licence line but the work around it: implementation, integration and the multi-year support that keeps a data platform running. The disclosed mean of about €1.5M (TED 2009-2026) is pulled up by full system builds, the kind seen in the management-system and ERP tenders below, while bare licence drawdowns sit far lower. Size the bid by which shape the contract actually is.

Two distinct fields compete under this code. Resellers and licensing partners chase the product-purchase tenders, where margin and framework position decide it. System integrators and data-platform specialists chase the build-and-run tenders, where the case rests on reference deployments, data-migration credibility, and named engineers certified on the target engine. If you can show a comparable platform you migrated and now support, that carries more weight than headline price on the build side.

Expect bidders to arrive from the packaged-product code (48611000) and from the broader custom-software and integration codes. Incumbency is strong on the support tail: the firm that stood the platform up knows the schema and the quirks, which makes the operate-phase renewals theirs to lose.