## 1. BACKGROUND INFORMATION 

ENISA is dedicated to enhancing the level of cybersecurity preparedness and awareness of EU and EFTA$^{1}$ Member States and EU Institutions. The new mandate of the Agency provides a broader scope of activities with the expansion of current tasks and the addition of new Operational ones in the fields of Cyber Crisis Collaboration (EU cybersecurity Blueprint), Trainings, Awareness raising and Exercises. 

In EU Cyber crisis collaboration (Blueprint) ENISA is planning a number of projects for the coming years (2020-2022) that include the development of new capabilities (including R&D tasks), the provision of support for the development of new policies and the collaboration on a roadmap of activities between ENISA, EUROPOL EC3, CertEU and EDA. 

In trainings, ENISA is broadening its scope of activities by initiating a collaboration with other EU entities like the ESDC on the provision of training material, expertise and capabilities. 

In awareness raising, the Agency will continue supporting the planning and development of the European Cybersecurity Challenge (ECSC). The goal for the following years will be to further increase the interest of these types of events as a way of promote and attract talent to cybersecurity, but also as a way of promote capacity building in NIS among youngsters and cyber security experts in EU. ENISA expect ECSC to become one of the key incubators of cybersecurity entrepreneurships in Europe. 

Regarding ENISA’s exercises, the Agency is well placed among the most important providers of expertise in the EU with the organization or support to different types of exercises from large-scale involving in many cases over one thousand participants across Europe, to specialized thematic exercises across all levels of administration (Political, Operational and Technical). The exercises usually follow multiple objectives, including testing standard procedures, contingency and communication plans, response protocols and training capabilities of players. 

The goal of this framework contract is to assist ENISA in conducting the aforementioned activities in the areas of the EU cybersecurity Blueprint, training and exercises by the provision of support across several dimensions. These are explained below: 

## 2. PROJECTS PROPOSED FOR 2020 

Without this being binding, ENISA is envisaged to deal with the following projects related to infrastructures of operational cooperation in the ENISA 2020-2022 Work Programme: 

a) Cyber Exercises Platform 

b) Cyber Challenge 

c) OpenCSAM Platform 

d) Trainings Platforms 

An estimation of the budget available for these projects for 2020 is up to €150,000. The ‘Request for Proposals’ with reopening of competition for the 2020 projects will be launched immediately after the conclusion of this tender procedure upon signature of contracts with all selected contractors 

