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 France?
GlobalGov holds 423 database management records from 307 distinct buying organisations in France. The most frequent publishers are office francais de la biodiversite (10 records); Mercator Ocean (7 records); Office Francais De La Biodiversite (7 records); bibliothèque nationale de France (6 records); caisse des depots (6 records); Office Français de la Biodiversité (5 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 9.7% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.
| Buying organisation | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| office francais de la biodiversite | 10 | 2.4% |
| Mercator Ocean | 7 | 1.7% |
| Office Francais De La Biodiversite | 7 | 1.7% |
| bibliothèque nationale de France | 6 | 1.4% |
| caisse des depots | 6 | 1.4% |
| Office Français de la Biodiversité | 5 | 1.2% |
What are database management contracts worth in France?
195 of the 423 records publish a contract value. The median is $788,400 and the largest single published value is $216.0M. By size, 6 under $100k, 111 between $100k and $1M, 58 between $1M and $10M, 20 above $10M. The remaining 228 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 | 6 | 3.1% |
| between $100k and $1M | 111 | 57% |
| between $1M and $10M | 58 | 30% |
| above $10M | 20 | 10% |
How long do bidders get to respond to database management tenders in France?
Across the 126 France database management notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 36 days. A quarter of them allowed 33 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 43. 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 France?
France publishes about 2 notices a month in this category, 27 in the last twelve months. That is 64% fewer than the 75 published in the twelve months before that. Over the last three years there were 186, spread across 59 separate months of activity since 9 April 2021. July is historically the busiest month. No new notice has been published in this category since 26 May 2026, 128 days ago, so treat the figures above as a record of the market rather than as this week's pipeline.
How does France compare with other database management markets?
Among the 21 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable database management market, France ranks 1st by number of records. No other country in the corpus publishes more of it. Within France itself, database management is the 55th largest of the 86 procurement categories tracked here.
Where do the France database management records on this page come from?
These 423 records are collected from 1 official source: TED (423). 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 France
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 France is visible. Set an alert to be told when the next one opens.
France – Data storage services – Hébergement agréé des données de santé pour le Conseil départemental des Yvelines
France – Data network management services – Accord-cadre Interministériel relatif aux services de proximité, à l’exploitation et l’administration des systèmes d’information de l’Etat et de certains établissements publics
France – Data-processing services – ETUDE DES USAGES TERRESTRES ET/OU MARITIMES ET DE LEURS INTERACTIONS AVEC LES ENJEUX ECOLOGIQUES DES SECTEURS D’ETUDE POUR LE DEPLOIEMENT DE LA PROTECTION FORTE EN BRETAGNE – PAYS DE LA LOIRE
France – Data collection and collation services – Réalisation de campagnes aériennes d'acquisition de connaissance sur la mégafaune marine dans le Parc naturel marin d'Iroise
France – Data storage services – FOURNITURES DE SOLUTIONS D'HÉBERGEMENT ET SERVICES ASSOCIÉS
France – Data entry services – Prestation de numérisation et de saisie dans le logiciel d'instruction de la Maison Départementale des Personnes Handicapées Alsace - site Colmar
France – Data supply services – DONNEES DE MARCHE SUR L'IMMOBILIER D'INVESTISSEMENT RESIDENTIEL ET TERTIAIRE
France – Data-processing services – Étude des zones fonctionnelles des oiseaux d'eau hivernants sur le littoral et les îles du Morbihan ainsi que des oiseaux marins sur les îles de la baie de La Baule
France – Data storage services – Acquisition, mise en oeuvre et maintenance d'un nouveau dispositif de stockage pour le Département de la Charente
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