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CPV 48952000

Public address systems

A public address system is the gear that broadcasts speech, announcements, and alert tones across a space: amplifiers, loudspeakers, microphones, mixers, and the control electronics that tie them together. Under CPV code 48952000, a contracting authority is buying that announcement and voice-alarm capability for a venue, a station, a campus, or a public building, not a navigation or vessel-tracking system.

The code sits inside Boat-location and public address system (48950000), one branch over from the sibling for boat-location (48951000). The pairing is a quirk of the vocabulary: a PA system and a vessel-positioning system share a parent only because both fall under specialist signalling equipment. In practice this code is about sound reinforcement and voice messaging.

It is a steady mid-volume code. 172 awards carry it (TED 2009-2026), 107 with disclosed values, at a mean of about €419k across those. Germany, France and the Czech Republic place the most. The spread runs from small event-hire kit to large fixed installations, including voice-alarm and passenger-information systems where the announcement function is safety-critical.

Public search interest in the bare term is light and skews retail (the top results are consumer PA and outdoor-speaker listings), a different audience from the procurement scope here. Most contracting authorities reach 48952000 through a building, transport, or events fit-out rather than by searching the term.

When to use this code

For buyers contracting authority

Pick 48952000 when the deliverable is the announcement, voice-alarm, or sound-reinforcement system itself: amplifiers, loudspeakers, microphones, and the control gear for broadcasting speech across a space. Event PA hire, station and airport passenger announcements, school and stadium tannoy systems, and building voice-alarm fit-outs all belong here.

The boundary to watch is the parent 48950000. Use the parent only when the scope genuinely spans both public address and boat-location and no single function dominates; otherwise the more specific 48952000 is the better tag for a pure PA buy. The sibling 48951000 is wrong unless the system is about locating or tracking vessels.

Watch two component traps. Where the contract is really for the discrete loudspeakers and microphones as hardware, the equipment code 32340000 can fit better. Where the contract's main purpose is the on-site installation labour rather than supplying the kit, installation of sound equipment (51313000) is the cleaner tag. Set the primary CPV code by the dominant purpose: the working announcement capability points here.

For suppliers bidding

Winners under 48952000 are audio-visual integrators, event-production firms, and signalling-and-safety contractors who can specify, supply, and commission a working system rather than just ship boxes. If you bid, the credential that lands is delivered installations of comparable scale, and for transport or public-building work, evidence that your voice-alarm and passenger-information builds meet the relevant safety and intelligibility standards.

The honest read: this is a project-shaped code, not a commodity catalogue line. With 172 awards over the period (TED 2009-2026) but a disclosed mean near €419k, the value concentrates in fixed installations and multi-site programmes, so weight your effort toward design-and-build tenders over one-off equipment supply. Commissioning skill, acoustic design, and a clean integration with existing fire and building-management systems decide more bids than headline unit price.

Expect to meet the same firms bidding the component code 32340000 (loudspeakers and microphones) and the installation code 51313000, since supply, fit, and commissioning blur across real contracts. The edge usually goes to the supplier who can own the whole chain from acoustic design to sign-off, not the one quoting the cheapest hardware.

Industries and typical projects

Hardware procurement Telecommunications System integration Networking equipment Telephony equipment

Commonly confused with

48951000
That sibling covers boat-location and vessel-tracking systems; 48952000 is strictly the public address and voice-announcement layer.
48950000
The parent spanning both boat-location and public address. Choose 48952000 when the buy is specifically a PA system and no boat-location scope applies.
32340000
That code is the discrete loudspeakers and microphones as hardware; 48952000 is the assembled public address system that broadcasts announcements.

Example award titles

  • The Supply of PA Systems for Major Events for Bournemouth Borough Council
  • Tender for the Provision of Public Address, Staging and Lighting Equipment
  • Lieferung, Installation, Inbetriebnahme und Abnahme einer Beschallungsanlage (DE)
  • Elektroakustische Warnanlage (AT)
  • Programma AETF-CSS. Acquisizione sistema di diffusione sonora campale. (IT)
  • Technische Ausstattung Veranstaltungssaal (DE)

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Hierarchy

Parent
48950000
Siblings
48951000
Documented June 2026 · AI-augmented body, human-reviewed before publication. Editorial policy.