Information systems or technology planning services

Pick 72222200 when the deliverable is a plan for information systems, not the systems themselves. A contracting authority uses it to procure an IT roadmap, a target-architecture design, a modernisation or migration plan, or the structured analysis that sets up a larger programme. The accepted output is the plan, the design, or the recommendation that gets signed off and paid for.

The boundary that trips contracting authorities is the strategic-review sibling 72222100. Strategic review assesses what exists and whether it still serves the organisation; planning lays out what to do next and in what order. Many contracts blend both, so tag the primary CPV code by whichever the statement of work leads with.

The other neighbour is the IT-services sibling 72222300, which is the right pick when the contract delivers running services rather than a planning document. Where a single engagement folds planning into a larger delivery, set the primary code by the dominant deliverable, not by the whole bundle.

Planning work goes to architecture and advisory firms that can design a target state and sequence the path to it, not to the delivery teams that build the systems afterwards. What an evaluator weighs is the named architect, a defensible method for moving an estate from where it is to where the roadmap points, and proof the supplier has planned migrations or modernisations at comparable scale. The signature on the design carries the bid, not the size of the bench.

The demand is substantial and spread across markets: 221 awards over the full window, and a high mean of about 2.0 million euro across the 151 disclosed (TED 2009-2026). Italy, Spain and Germany account for the bulk of historical activity, so a multi-country delivery footprint helps more than it would on a single-market code.

Two kinds of rival show up: strategic-review specialists crossing over from 72222100, and broad IT-services firms under 72222300 that attach a planning line to a delivery bid. A plan is bought for foresight the authority cannot staff in-house, so the bid that wins is the one that proves it has charted this exact route before, not the one that lists the most services.