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 Italy?
GlobalGov holds 245 database management records from 180 distinct buying organisations in Italy. The most frequent publishers are RAI - Radiotelevisione Italiana S.p.A. (6 records); Aeroporti di Roma S.p.A. (4 records); Cuc Area Vasta Brescia - Sede Distaccata Territoriale Di Valle Trompia (4 records); European Commission, DG JRC - Joint Research Centre (4 records); European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) (4 records); C.U.C. COMUNI DI RUTIGLIANO – MOLA DI BARI – NOICÀTTARO per conto del Comune di Rutigliano (3 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 10% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.
| Buying organisation | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| RAI - Radiotelevisione Italiana S.p.A. | 6 | 2.4% |
| Aeroporti di Roma S.p.A. | 4 | 1.6% |
| Cuc Area Vasta Brescia - Sede Distaccata Territoriale Di Valle Trompia | 4 | 1.6% |
| European Commission, DG JRC - Joint Research Centre | 4 | 1.6% |
| European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) | 4 | 1.6% |
| C.U.C. COMUNI DI RUTIGLIANO – MOLA DI BARI – NOICÀTTARO per conto del Comune di Rutigliano | 3 | 1.2% |
What are database management contracts worth in Italy?
194 of the 245 records publish a contract value. The median is $1.1M and the largest single published value is $68.0M. By size, 1 under $100k, 94 between $100k and $1M, 74 between $1M and $10M, 25 above $10M. The remaining 51 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 | 1 | 0.5% |
| between $100k and $1M | 94 | 48% |
| between $1M and $10M | 74 | 38% |
| above $10M | 25 | 13% |
How long do bidders get to respond to database management tenders in Italy?
Across the 66 Italy database management notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 39 days. A quarter of them allowed 35 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 49. 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 Italy?
Italy publishes about 3 notices a month in this category, 32 in the last twelve months. That is 29% fewer than the 45 published in the twelve months before that. Over the last three years there were 114, spread across 56 separate months of activity since 17 May 2021. May 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 Italy compare with other database management markets?
Among the 21 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable database management market, Italy ranks 2nd by number of records. The largest is France (423 records against 245 here). Within Italy itself, database management is the 39th largest of the 69 procurement categories tracked here.
Where do the Italy database management records on this page come from?
These 245 records are collected from 1 official source: TED (245). 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 Italy
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 Italy is visible. Set an alert to be told when the next one opens.
Italy – Data management services – Attività di biostatistica per l’Azienda sanitaria dell’Alto Adige (Registro Tumori- Unità Aziendale per la Sorveglianza Epidemiologica - Servizio per le Dipendenze del Comprensorio sanitario di Bolzano)
Italy – Data-processing services – SERVIZIO GESTIONALE DEGLI ATTI SANZIONATORI AMMINISTRATIVI AL C.D.S. E DEGLI ATTI SANZIONATORI AMMINISTRATIVI DI TUTTE LE VIOLAZIONI PREVISTE DALLE VIGENTI NORMATIVE DI NATURA NON PENALE
Italy – Database services – Procedura aperta telematica, indetta ai sensi dell’art. 71 del D.lgs. n. 36/2023, per l’affidamento del «Servizio web di consultazione in materia di normativa sul lavoro e fiscale nell’ambito delle attività ispettive ed amministrative dell’INPS»
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