Data analysis services

Pick 72316000 when the accepted output is analysis: a study, a model, a set of findings, a visualisation that informs a decision. If the contract is about getting data into a system (keying, scanning, importing) or holding it (storage, hosting), the right code is one of the siblings, not this one.

The boundary that trips contracting authorities is Data collection and collation (72314000). Collection assembles the dataset; analysis interprets it. Many real contracts do both, so set the primary CPV code by the dominant deliverable, the gathering or the interpretation, and tag the secondary scope in a lot or supplementary code.

Watch the line with the broad parent too. Data-processing services (72310000) is the catch-all; reserve 72316000 for engagements where statistical, geospatial or analytical work is the point. Authorities buying a policy study, an economic-value assessment, or a governance-and-visualisation programme land here cleanly. With 416 awards on record (TED 2009-2026), there is enough comparable history to benchmark scope and value before drafting the notice.

Winners under 72316000 are analytical specialists: research institutes, econometrics and statistics consultancies, geospatial-data shops, and data-science teams that sell senior judgement rather than commodity processing. Your case rests on named analysts, the methods you can stand behind, and references on comparable studies, far more than on headcount or storage capacity. If you bid, lead with the specific analytical credential the scope demands.

Some of the awards above run as framework contracts, a shape that rewards getting onto the framework first, then competing on method and team for each call-off. Domain fit matters here in a way it does not for generic processing: a fisheries dataset, a forest-resources brief, or a transport-systems analysis each favours a supplier who already knows the subject.

Cross-border reach helps. Czechia, France and Spain account for much of the recorded activity (TED 2009-2026), and the mean award sits near €990k (TED 2009-2026), high enough that consortia and EU-institution work (the JRC and Commission studies above among it) is common. Expect competition from two directions: data-collection firms bidding under 72314000 that bolt on an analysis line, and IT-research and consultancy houses arriving from broader codes. The code rewards depth over breadth: an authority buying analysis is paying for an answer it cannot produce in-house, so a sharp methodological pitch beats a generalist one.