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 Ireland?
GlobalGov holds 39 database management records from 32 distinct buying organisations in Ireland. The most frequent publishers are Department of Justice (3 records); Education Procurement Service (EPS) (3 records); Central Statistics Office (2 records); Health Service Executive (HSE) (2 records); Approved Housing Bodies Regulatory Authority (1 record); BCM Business Cost Management Limited_85346 (1 record). Between them the 6 largest account for 31% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.
| Buying organisation | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Department of Justice | 3 | 7.7% |
| Education Procurement Service (EPS) | 3 | 7.7% |
| Central Statistics Office | 2 | 5.1% |
| Health Service Executive (HSE) | 2 | 5.1% |
| Approved Housing Bodies Regulatory Authority | 1 | 2.6% |
| BCM Business Cost Management Limited_85346 | 1 | 2.6% |
What are database management contracts worth in Ireland?
35 of the 39 records publish a contract value. The median is $756,000 and the largest single published value is $51.8M. By size, 3 under $100k, 17 between $100k and $1M, 12 between $1M and $10M, 3 above $10M. The remaining 4 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 | 3 | 8.6% |
| between $100k and $1M | 17 | 49% |
| between $1M and $10M | 12 | 34% |
| above $10M | 3 | 8.6% |
How long do bidders get to respond to database management tenders in Ireland?
Across the 16 Ireland database management notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 33 days. A quarter of them allowed 32 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 Ireland?
Ireland published 4 notices in this category in the last twelve months. Over the last three years there were 22, spread across 28 separate months of activity since 13 September 2021. February 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 Ireland compare with other database management markets?
Among the 21 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable database management market, Ireland ranks 14th by number of records. The largest is France (423 records against 39 here). Within Ireland itself, database management is the 57th largest of the 63 procurement categories tracked here.
Where do the Ireland database management records on this page come from?
These 39 records are collected from 1 official source: TED (39). 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 Ireland
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 Ireland is visible. Set an alert to be told when the next one opens.
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