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CPV 48614000

Data-acquisition system

A data-acquisition system is the software that collects readings from instruments, sensors, feeds or external sources and pulls them into a usable form: capturing the values, converting them, and landing them somewhere they can be stored and analysed. Under CPV code 48614000, a contracting authority is buying the capture-and-ingest layer, the part that gets data in, rather than a general database or a reporting tool.

It sits inside Database systems (48610000), the branch covering the platforms that hold and manage data. The siblings cover the database software package (48611000), the database-management system itself (48612000), and electronic data management or EDM (48613000). This code is the narrower acquisition slice: the system that feeds those databases from the field.

The code is a moderate performer rather than a workhorse. 164 awards carry it (TED 2009-2026), of which 87 disclose a value, and across those the mean runs to about €830k. Germany, the Netherlands and Italy place the most. The spread of buyers fits the breadth of the term: anywhere a public body needs to capture sensor, telemetry or feed data, from sensor and instrument capture to media monitoring, the acquisition system can land here.

Search interest in the bare term stays low, which fits a code that is reached through its parent category or an instrumentation project rather than searched for directly. The competitor results for the head term split between database theory and industrial DAQ hardware, two different audiences from the procurement scope here.

When to use this code

For buyers contracting authority

Pick 48614000 when the contract's point is capturing data and bringing it in, rather than storing, managing or modelling it. Sensor and telemetry capture, feed ingestion, monitoring and import tooling all point here. If the deliverable is the database platform that holds the data, that is the database-management system code (48612000) or the database software package (48611000) instead.

The boundary that trips contracting authorities is the sibling 48613000, Electronic data management (EDM). EDM is about handling and controlling documents and records once they exist; an acquisition system is about getting fresh readings or feeds into the system in the first place. Where a single contract spans both, set the primary CPV code by the dominant purpose.

One more thing to watch: an acquisition system often arrives bundled with the sensors, transmitters or instruments it reads from. The hardware itself belongs under its own equipment code; keep the contract here when the software capture layer is what the authority is mainly procuring, and tag it elsewhere when the iron dominates the spend.

For suppliers bidding

Winners under 48614000 tend to be instrumentation integrators and data-platform specialists who can wire sensors, transmitters or external feeds into a working capture pipeline, not pure application shops. If you bid, the signal that carries is proven integration against the specific instruments or feeds in scope, plus a connectivity layer that lands clean data into the authority's existing stores.

Worth knowing before you commit: this is a broad, mixed code rather than a single tidy market. With 164 awards over the period (TED 2009-2026) at a disclosed mean near €830k, the work ranges from small sensor-capture buys to larger monitoring and telemetry programmes, so read each tender's scope closely instead of assuming a house type. Domain fit beats generic breadth, the supplier who knows sensor and instrument capture will struggle in media monitoring and the reverse.

Expect to meet neighbouring bidders arriving from the database-management code (48612000) and from EDM (48613000), since capture, storage and document-handling scopes blur in real contracts. The deciding edge is usually a demonstrable track record on the exact class of data the authority needs to acquire.

Industries and typical projects

Data services Infrastructure monitoring Geospatial IT System integration Public sector IT Data analytics

Commonly confused with

48612000
The database-management system stores and organises data; 48614000 is the capture layer that feeds it from sensors, instruments or external sources.
48613000
Electronic data management (EDM) handles documents and records once they exist, whereas 48614000 is about acquiring fresh readings or feeds in the first place.
48611000
A database software package is the storage product itself; pick 48614000 when the contract's point is the acquisition and ingest of data, not its storage.
48610000
The parent for all database systems; choose 48614000 only when the scope is specifically data acquisition rather than database software in general.

Example award titles

  • Data Acquisition system (Hardware&Software).
  • Data acquisition units with connectivity layer for Smart Maintenance
  • Agreement for the delivery of news monitoring.
  • Technical Assistance for Improving the Detection Capacity of Turkish Customs Enforcement
  • Social Media Management Tool
  • Automatische Datenerfassung im Straßenbetriebsdienst (DE)

Live tenders (2)

Norway – Data-processing services – Procurement of a platform for general information management and digital requirement management in the construction project, on behalf of Sykehusbygg HF NO · closes 2026-07-06
Germany – Data-acquisition system – Digitale Datenerfassung im Rettungsdienst für die Feuerwehr Essen DE · closes 2026-08-20
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Hierarchy

Parent
48610000
Siblings
486110004861200048613000
Documented June 2026 · AI-augmented body, human-reviewed before publication. Editorial policy.