Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2024-07-04
Region: BE100
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 48000000 | 48210000 | 48517000 | 48800000 | 48820000: Servers
Estimated value: 4923698 EUR
Submission deadline: 2024-08-06
Award criteria: quality, price
EU fund: eu-funds

Technical requirements: For the full list of exclusion grounds please consult the procurement documents.
This call for tenders concerns a Joint Procurement, between the European Cybersecurity Industrial, Technology and Research Competence Centre (“ECCC”) and the ATHENA Hostig Consortium, comprising of (1) Digital Security Authority of Cyprus (the  “Coordinator”) (2) Ministry of Electronic Governance of Bulgaria,
(3) Ministry of Digital Governance of Greece, Directorate General for Cybersecurity (4) Ministry for Home Affairs, Security, Reforms and Equality of Malta, Critical Infrastructure Protection Directorate. 
The subject of this call for tenders is the joint acquisition of Athena Cross-Border SOCs Platform infrastructure, specialised software development services and CTI feeds services.
This lot aims at the acquisition of hardware that will be used to build the cross border
infrastructure. This includes switches, firewalls, server, storage, backup solution
Hardware Security Module and all the necessary interconnection cabling. The devices
will be configured and integrated so as to provide a functional infrastructure that can
process, store and transmit information. Security of the information is a crucial aspect
of the infrastructure and must be guaranteed. The hardware will be purchased must
include support, maintenance and guarantee services for a fixed time frame. The support
must be delivered based on an SLA agreement. The built-in operating systems that come
with the hardware will need to be acquired. In addition, this Lot will cover the
equipment needed for disaster recovery. This includes air conditions, UPS, CCTV,
access control systems, alarm systems etc.
This Lot aims at the acquisition of CTI feeds that will be fed into the Athena Consortium
thread intelligence engine and license to use the services over the total duration of the
contract. These are information pertaining to attacks and vulnerabilities and change
dynamically over time. The primary focus is to acquire CTI feed services that include
feeds providing necessary intelligence for Malicious files, malicious domain, malicious
IPs and C2 servers, Phishing URLs, Botnets, APTs. Crucial component of the feeds
must be Dark Web Threat Intelligence. This feed should offer a comprehensive
collection of darknet data, ensuring a broad range of coverage and depth for threat
intelligence analysis.
This lot aims at acquiring commercial software configured for the Athena Consortium’s
own use within the Athena project. This software will enhance and coordinate the
Incident Response process as well as the Playbooks among the consortium, via proactive
and reactive Security Automation and Orchestration. Furthermore, the tools will
reinforce the joint-Preparedness among consortium member states via Cybersecurity
Operations Training (COT) Subsystem. The software will be owned by the vendor and
the content produced by the software. e.g., playbooks, will be owned by the contracting
authority.