Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2023-10-24
Buyer: Agencyfor Electronic Communications
Country: MK
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 48000000
Estimated value: 15000000 MKD
Submission deadline: 2023-11-22
Award criteria: Lowest price

Technical requirements: The need for the subject of procurement is to achieve the provision of an integrated system and services for active prevention and detection of security threats and incidents at a higher level of protection for the needs of the Agency for Electronic Communications, for a period of 24 months.
Protection for each of the listed types of devices and services should be from the same manufacturer, with full integration and central console management, logging and reporting.
2. A system for centralized monitoring of logs and security incidents (SIEM) that will allow increasing the visibility and correlation of events and incidents from IT equipment, which will significantly shorten the time of reaction and handling of incidents.
- In order to prove its personal status, the economic operator should submit the following documents:
- statement of the economic operator that no effective verdict has been issued against the economic operator within the past 5 years for a committed crime pursuant to Article 88 paragraph 1 of the Law on Public Procurement;
- certificate of paid taxes, benefits and other public duties issued by a competent body in the country where the economic operator is registered;
- certificate from the Register of penalties for committed criminal offenses of legal entities proving that no secondary penalty - ban on participating in open call procedures, awarding public procurement contracts and contracts on public - private partnership has been pronounced;
- certificate from the Register of penalties for committed criminal offenses of legal entities proving that no secondary penalty - temporary or permanent ban on performing particular activity has been pronounced;
- certificate stating that no misdemeanour sanction - ban on the performance of the profession, activity or duty, i.e. temporary ban on the performance of a particular activity has been pronounced with an effective verdict.
-	with a list of the main deliveries of goods or services performed with values, dates, purchasers (contracting authorities or economic operators), providing a confirmation of deliveries or services performed: - The economic operator must have qualitatively performed at least 1 (one) delivered and completed a project for an IT security information and event management system (SIEM) or an endpoint detection and response system (EDR) (completed realization), or a similar type related to the subject of procurement in the last 5 years in order to ensure the appropriate level of competition.
-	with the educational and professional qualifications of the service provider or the contractor or his management staff, provided that they are not evaluated as a criterion for selecting the most favourable bid:
• At least 1 (one) person Cyber Security Project Manager with: • completed higher education (or more) in the field of Information Technologies, • with a minimum of 5 years professional experience in the field of Cyber Security, • to hold at least 5 Cyber Security certificates from recognized vendors such as SANS, EC-COUNCIL, eLearn, Mile2, CompTia or equivalent thereof. • At least 1 expert, incident responder, • with completed higher education (or more) in the field of Information Technologies, • with a minimum of 5 years professional experience in the field of Cyber Security, • to hold at least 5 Cyber Security certificates from recognized vendors such as SANS, EC-COUNCIL, eLearn, Mile2, CompTia or equivalent thereof. • At least 1 expert as SIEM solution implementation expert: • who holds the highest level of valid certificate issued by the manufacturer of the offered SIEM solution or equivalent thereof. • At least 1 expert responsible for the implementation of endpoint detection and response solutions (EDR) • to hold a valid certificate issued by the manufacturer of the offered solution for the implementation of endpoint detection and response solutions (EDR) or equivalent thereof.
-	Standards for quality systems: - ISO 9001:2015 Quality control management system or equivalent certificate issued by institutions established in EU Member States -ISO 27001:2018 Information security management system or equivalent certificate issued by institutions established in EU Member States.
-	with a list of the main deliveries of goods or services performed with values, dates, purchasers (contracting authorities or economic operators), providing a confirmation of deliveries or services performed: - The economic operator must have qualitatively performed at least 1 (one) delivered and completed a project for an IT security information and event management system (SIEM) or an endpoint detection and response system (EDR) (completed realization), or a similar type related to the subject of procurement in the last 5 years in order to ensure the appropriate level of competition.
-	with the educational and professional qualifications of the service provider or the contractor or his management staff, provided that they are not evaluated as a criterion for selecting the most favourable bid:

Eligibility requirements: -	Document for registered activity: Certificate of registered activity (CRA template). - In order to prove its personal status, the economic operator should submit the following documents: - statement of the economic operator that no effective verdict has been issued against the economic operator within the past 5 years for a committed crime pursuant to Article 88 paragraph 1 of the Law on Public Procurement; - certificate stating that no bankruptcy procedure has been initiated by a competent body; - certificate stating that no liquidation procedure has been initiated by a competent body; - certificate of paid taxes, benefits and other public duties issued by a competent body in the country where the economic operator is registered; - certificate from the Register of penalties for committed criminal offenses of legal entities proving that no secondary penalty - ban on participating in open call procedures, awarding public procurement contracts and contracts on public - private partnership has been pronounced; - certificate from the Register of penalties for committed criminal offenses of legal entities proving that no secondary penalty - temporary or permanent ban on performing particular activity has been pronounced; - certificate stating that no misdemeanour sanction - ban on the performance of the profession, activity or duty, i.e. temporary ban on the performance of a particular activity has been pronounced with an effective verdict.

Award value: 15000000