UNSPSC 81162004: Database management as a service

Database management as a service in which a third party service provider hosts a database as a service. The service provides data management for its customers and thus obviates the need for the service user to purchase expensive hardware and software, deal with software upgrades and hire professionals for administrative and maintenance tasks.

UNSPSC 81162004 Database management as a service is a Commodity code capturing state and local government procurement of hosted data platforms, system maintenance, and cloud-based management infrastructure. State and local buyers use this code for enterprise-grade database hosting, data integration, analytics pipelines, and managed operations spanning financial systems, health records, homeless services coordination, fraud detection platforms, and specialized sector databases. Recent solicitations show issuing bodies range from state pension systems and health authorities to municipal departments and regional service agencies, with activity concentrated in Texas, California, Illinois, and Georgia. The Teacher Retirement System of Texas posted RFP TRS000682 in July 2026 seeking an enterprise fraud detection and monitoring platform with database integration across pension, procurement, and paper fraud domains—a one-year base contract with four optional renewals emphasizing implementation, training, and ongoing maintenance services. The California Interagency Council on Homelessness posted IFB 0000039767 in July 2026 for maintenance and operations of the Homeless Data Integration System, a statewide data warehouse aggregating HMIS data from 44 regional continuums, requiring management of Informatica IICS, Informatica MDM, Snowflake, Tableau Enterprise, AWS, and security tools across a three-year base term plus optional extensions not to exceed $15 million over five years—a scope dominated by data platform administration, uptime guarantees (99%), dashboard performance (90% load times under five seconds), and incident response (one hour for Priority 1). Both solicitations emphasize mandatory qualifications including multi-year enterprise data warehouse experience, cloud platform expertise, and compliance with regulated-sector standards (data privacy, SOC 2, ISO 27001).

Activity in this code spans traditional database licensing and support through hosted infrastructure management and specialized analytics platforms. Geographic concentration in Texas, California, and Illinois reflects state-level investment in data consolidation, particularly in public benefits administration, healthcare, and criminal justice. School districts, transit authorities, and city IT departments appear sporadically, typically managing smaller-scale implementations. Repeat buyers include state procurement offices managing enterprise resource planning transitions and health authorities deploying integrated information systems. Opportunity volume is moderate but trending upward as state and local agencies modernize legacy database architectures into cloud-native stacks. Vendors should anticipate multi-year base terms, performance-based liquidated damages for availability failures, and mandatory staffing requirements (Systems Architects, Data Management Architects, Database Administrators) with hands-on experience in Snowflake, Informatica, cloud-hosted databases, and regulated data governance. Hybrid private cloud and disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) configurations are emerging as variant scope in larger metros, particularly alongside broader IT modernization initiatives.