Clustering software package

Choose 48626000 when the purpose of the contract is the clustering layer itself: the software that pools servers for failover, high availability, or hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI). The trigger is the function, not the hardware underneath it. If the deliverable is an operating system scoped to one machine class, the sibling codes apply instead, a PC OS is 48624000, an open-systems OS is 48625000, a real-time OS is 48627000.

The practical signal is resilience. Contracting authorities reach this code when they are standing up or renewing a fault-tolerant data-centre platform, the kind that has to survive a node failure without dropping the service. That is why the visible awards lean towards HCI solutions and high-availability cluster licences rather than single-server software.

One boundary to watch: clustering software is the software layer. The servers and storage arrays it runs on belong under their own hardware codes, and where a single contract bundles the cluster licence with the boxes, set the primary CPV code by whichever element is the dominant purpose of the contract.

Read this as a platform-bounded market before you commit a bid. Clustering and HCI software is dominated by a short list of proprietary stacks, so the realistic field is those platform owners plus their certified resellers and integration partners; a generalist software house has little to offer cold. The disclosed mean of about €638k (TED 2009-2026) makes each award worth chasing, but only a handful land per year across the whole EU.

What carries a bid is platform certification, a credible licensing-and-support relationship, and the ability to deliver and migrate a live cluster without downtime. Several of the visible awards are framework or supply agreements for licences plus maintenance, a shape that rewards getting named on the framework first, then winning the renewals. Service-level commitments and a clean cutover plan tend to outweigh headline price.

Neighbouring bidders arrive from the open-systems operating-system code (48625000) and from the broader operating-systems parent (48620000), and the work pairs naturally with reselling the underlying server hardware. If you are already inside one of the major cluster ecosystems, the incumbency effect works for you; if you are not, this is a hard code to win on price alone.