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 Spain?
GlobalGov holds 188 database management records from 129 distinct buying organisations in Spain. The most frequent publishers are Director del Instituto Canario de Estadística (ISTAC) (10 records); Junta de Contratación del Ministerio de Cultura y Deporte (9 records); Consejería de Cultura, Turismo y Deporte de la Junta de Castilla y León (5 records); EJIE, S.A. - Sociedad Informática del Gobierno Vasco - EJIE-Sociedad Informática del Gobierno Vasco (4 records); Instituto Nacional de Estadística INE (4 records); Junta de Contratación del Ministerio de Trabajo y Economía Social (4 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 19% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.
| Buying organisation | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Director del Instituto Canario de Estadística (ISTAC) | 10 | 5.3% |
| Junta de Contratación del Ministerio de Cultura y Deporte | 9 | 4.8% |
| Consejería de Cultura, Turismo y Deporte de la Junta de Castilla y León | 5 | 2.7% |
| EJIE, S.A. - Sociedad Informática del Gobierno Vasco - EJIE-Sociedad Informática del Gobierno Vasco | 4 | 2.1% |
| Instituto Nacional de Estadística INE | 4 | 2.1% |
| Junta de Contratación del Ministerio de Trabajo y Economía Social | 4 | 2.1% |
What are database management contracts worth in Spain?
177 of the 188 records publish a contract value. The median is $591,002 and the largest single published value is $23.1M. By size, 119 between $100k and $1M, 52 between $1M and $10M, 6 above $10M. The remaining 11 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 | 0 | 0.0% |
| between $100k and $1M | 119 | 67% |
| between $1M and $10M | 52 | 29% |
| above $10M | 6 | 3.4% |
How long do bidders get to respond to database management tenders in Spain?
Across the 70 Spain database management notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 34 days. A quarter of them allowed 31 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 40. 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 Spain?
Spain published 6 notices in this category in the last twelve months. Over the last three years there were 87, spread across 55 separate months of activity since 31 May 2021. July is historically the busiest month. No new notice has been published in this category since 25 May 2026, 129 days ago, so treat the figures above as a record of the market rather than as this week's pipeline.
How does Spain compare with other database management markets?
Among the 21 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable database management market, Spain ranks 4th by number of records. The largest is France (423 records against 188 here). Within Spain itself, database management is the 49th largest of the 71 procurement categories tracked here.
Where do the Spain database management records on this page come from?
These 188 records are collected from 1 official source: TED (188). 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 Spain
None of these are open for bids now — they are the most recent records GlobalGov holds for this market, kept here so the shape of a typical database management notice in Spain is visible. Set an alert to be told when the next one opens.
Spain – Database services – Servicios de revisión, ordenación y digitalización de imágenes en bases de datos de bienes culturales de la Dirección de las Colecciones Reales
Spain – Data transmission services – Servicio de mantenimiento de material de mando y control y simulación del ET
Spain – Data services – Servicio de digitalización, catalogación y tratamiento documental de materiales bibliográficos conservados en diversas instituciones españolas
Spain – Data network management and support services – Mantenimiento y explotación de los sistemas de control de accesos y gestión de la zona de bajas emisiones de la ciudad de Valladolid.
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