UNSPSC 43233415: Backup or archival software

Software which provides flexible, powerful backup protection of desktop computer hard drives and networked drives to (for example) an OIT network server or dat tape drive. Lost files can be recovered by restoring them from the server or from other backup hardware and media.

UNSPSC 43233415 Backup or archival software is a Commodity code tracking state and local procurement for data protection and recovery platforms. State and local governments soliciting under this code are acquiring comprehensive software solutions for system backup, disaster recovery, and archival management—though recent opportunities show considerable breadth in actual buying patterns. The mix of issuing bodies spans Florida colleges, Georgia and Florida school districts, Texas utilities and state agencies, and a range of county and municipal departments. Recent solicitations reveal that governments are buying integrated IT service management platforms with backup and recovery components (Valencia College's RFI for ITSM platforms supporting disaster recovery with 99.9% uptime and backup capabilities), student information and assessment systems with data archival features (Hillsborough County Public Schools procuring integrated library systems and assessment platforms requiring historical data migration), specialized industry software with embedded backup functions (Employees Retirement System of Texas requesting IRIS tax-filing services with data backup protocols), and general-purpose cloud and SaaS solutions with mandated data residency, encryption, and recovery time objectives. School districts and college systems are the most active issuing bodies, followed by state agencies and utility commissions seeking to replace legacy systems and establish data continuity across large-scale operations.

Florida dominates recent activity, with Hillsborough County Public Schools, Valencia College, and Collier County each posting multiple notices for systems requiring robust backup, recovery, and archival capabilities. Texas procurement activity concentrates in the state agencies (Employees Retirement System, Health and Human Services Commission) and municipal utilities (Orlando Utilities Commission, City of Augusta). Georgia and other states round out a distributed geographic footprint. Representative opportunities include Valencia College's RFI 202605 for an IT Service Management Platform (Posted October 19, 2026; RFI due August 26, 2025) requiring 99.9% uptime, disaster recovery, and HIPAA-compliant data protection; Hillsborough County Public Schools' RFP 26114 for an Integrated Library System (Posted September 21, 2026; RFP due April 10, 2026) requiring migration of bibliographic data and MARC records spanning years of historical records; and the Employees Retirement System of Texas's RFP 26-15697-001 for IRIS transmission services (Posted October 13, 2026; RFP due October 20, 2026) mandating secure data ingestion, correction-filing capability, and four-year contract pricing firm across the term. Cloud-hosted solutions with U.S.-based data residency, SOC 2 Type II or ISO 27001 compliance, and encryption at rest and in transit (TLS 1.2 or higher) appear in nearly every recent opportunity, establishing de facto baseline security and backup requirements across the code's activity.