Do you need to implement a professional digital skills system in cybersecurity?

Name of the grant line

Professional Digital Competencies in Cybersecurity.

Objective, brief description

The objective is to implement the Framework Agreement, as well as the various services required by SPRI for the implementation of a “Professional Digital Skills in Cybersecurity” system for companies that benefit from the Aid Program.

Deadline for submitting bids or applications to participate:

02/08/2024 10:00

Beneficiary entities

Award procedure: Open

Natural or legal persons, Spanish or foreign, who have full legal capacity, are not subject to a prohibition on contracting, are not in a situation of conflict of interest, and who meet the solvency requirements or, where applicable, are classified, may participate in the procurement procedure. They must also possess the qualifications established, where applicable, in clause 21.4 of the specific clauses of the contract (if said clause indicates that the time by which the qualification(s) must be obtained is the “final date for submission of bids”).

Several people who meet the requirements indicated in the previous paragraph may also participate, grouped into a UTE in accordance with the legally established conditions.

Only legal entities that comply with the provisions of Article 66.1 of the LCSP, as well as economic operators from the Community or signatory states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area, and non-Community economic operators that comply with the provisions of Articles 67 and 68.1 of the LCSP, respectively, are eligible to participate.

Solvency: Economic operators must have the following solvency:

• Economic and financial. Requirement(s): The tenderer’s annual turnover, for the best financial year of the last three completed years, is equal to or greater than 150,000 euros.

• Technical or professional. Requirement(s): Only companies that can prove they have carried out, during the last three years, work of the same or similar nature to that which constitutes the object of the competition, whose accumulated annual amount in the year of greatest execution is equal to or greater than 70,000 euros, may participate in the competition.

Eligible projects

The tasks assigned to the successful bidders will be all those necessary for the implementation of the IKANOS methodology, in its Cybersecurity vertical, in the companies that are beneficiaries of the Aid Program. These will be, but are not limited to, the following:

a- Contact with the company that is a beneficiary of the Aid Program:

• Understand the company’s cybersecurity objectives.

• Identify areas of opportunity – in the field of cybersecurity.

• Define the diagnostic structure from a cybersecurity perspective.

b- Access design:

• Number of areas, profiles, professionals.

• Identify users.

• Design of access to the IKANOS platform.

c- Communication with users:

• Communication of objectives.

• Motivation for participation.

d- Data analysis:

• Quantitative reports.

• Qualitative reports.

e- Improvement proposals:

• Creation of the Digital Skills Map in Cybersecurity.

• Training design based on the diagnosis conducted and aimed at improving cybersecurity skills.

• Evolution of the professional digital profile from a cybersecurity perspective.

f- Dissemination actions of the Aid Program

% of financing

The total base budget for the contract is €2,000,000, plus €420,000 in 21% VAT, and is allocated to the following annual payment:

• Year 2026: 200,000 euros plus VAT.

• Year 2025: 1,800,000 euros plus VAT.

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