Custody of data that belongs to the buyer, and the terms that govern it
A database contract is a custody arrangement before it is a technical one. The buyer remains accountable for the data whatever the supplier does with it, so the terms that dominate are about control: where the data is physically held, which staff may access it and under what clearance, whether any processing happens outside the agreed jurisdiction, what the supplier may do with derived or aggregated data, and how quickly the buyer can get everything back in a usable form. Bidders who lead with platform features and treat these as annexes misjudge the evaluation.
Operationally the specification is about continuity and provability. Availability targets, backup frequency, and a recovery point and recovery time objective that are tested rather than asserted form the core; buyers increasingly require evidence of an actual restore, not a backup log. Performance is specified in terms the buyer can measure, such as response time at a stated concurrency, and capacity growth is priced in advance so that success does not become a renegotiation.
Migration bookends the contract and is where most of the risk lives. Bringing data in means extraction from a legacy system, cleansing, mapping, reconciliation and a proving period during which both systems run; taking it out again at the end means the same work in reverse, usually under time pressure. Tenders that specify the exit deliverable precisely -- format, schema documentation, referential integrity, the timescale and who pays -- produce contracts that can actually be competed again. Those that do not produce an incumbent that cannot be displaced.
This section describes how this category is bought generally, across the public buyers that publish it. The figures elsewhere on this page are measured for this market alone.
Who buys database management in Bulgaria?
GlobalGov holds 25 database management records from 18 distinct buying organisations in Bulgaria. The most frequent publishers are International buyer (3 records); International buyer (3 records); International buyer (2 records); International buyer (2 records); International buyer (2 records); International buyer (1 record). Between them the 6 largest account for 52% of everything published, so buying here is concentrated in a few authorities.
| Buying organisation | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| International buyer | 3 | 12% |
| International buyer | 3 | 12% |
| International buyer | 2 | 8.0% |
| International buyer | 2 | 8.0% |
| International buyer | 2 | 8.0% |
| International buyer | 1 | 4.0% |
What are database management contracts worth in Bulgaria?
23 of the 25 records publish a contract value. The median is $220,000 and the largest single published value is $3.9M. By size, 8 under $100k, 10 between $100k and $1M, 5 between $1M and $10M. The remaining 2 publish no value at all, so every figure here describes the priced subset only, and values are as stated by the buyer rather than as finally awarded.
| Contract size | Records | Share of priced |
|---|---|---|
| under $100k | 8 | 35% |
| between $100k and $1M | 10 | 43% |
| between $1M and $10M | 5 | 22% |
| above $10M | 0 | 0.0% |
How long do bidders get to respond to database management tenders in Bulgaria?
Across the 8 Bulgaria database management notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 32 days. A quarter of them allowed 31 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 35. Not one of them closed within a fortnight of being published, so the window on this market is consistently workable.
How often are database management tenders published in Bulgaria?
Bulgaria published 1 notice in this category in the last twelve months. Over the last three years there were 11, spread across 20 separate months of activity since 16 February 2011. February is historically the busiest month. No new notice has been published in this category since 23 December 2025, 282 days ago, so treat the figures above as a record of the market rather than as this week's pipeline.
How does Bulgaria compare with other database management markets?
Among the 21 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable database management market, Bulgaria ranks 19th by number of records. The largest is France (423 records against 25 here). Within Bulgaria itself, database management is the 51st largest of the 53 procurement categories tracked here.
Where do the Bulgaria database management records on this page come from?
These 25 records are collected from 2 official sources: TED (24), the Bulgaria national tender archive (1). GlobalGov is an independent aggregator and is not affiliated with any of them; each record links back to the notice on its issuing portal. The set is rebuilt nightly, and the counts on this page were taken on 2026-10-01.
Most recent Database Management tenders in Bulgaria
No individual notice in this category currently has a public record page. The market figures above are computed over all 25 records GlobalGov holds for it.
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