CIRCL - Request for Proposals for Software Services and Engineering (2025-04)
The scope of the RfP is the supply and delivery of Software Services and Engineering to CIRCL within a scope of internal software. The candidate supplier must submit an offer for a single package. The candidate supplier can select the package for which he wishes to bid. The RfP fall into the category of “MARCHÉS PUBLICS DE FAIBLE ENVERGURE”.
Package 01 - Lookyloo, Lacus development and maintenance
- Lookyloo is an open source project composed of web interface and back-end which allows users to capture a website page and then display a tree of domains that call each other;
- Lacus is an open source project for crawling;
- The supplier must handle the development of the Lookyloo project, Lacus and related toolsets used for web crawling in close collaboration with CIRCL team;
- The supplier must handle issue tracking and resolution including specific and custom developments requested by CIRCL;
- The supplier must maintain the code including the review and merge of pull-requests from third parties;
- The supplier must evaluate and contribute to the evolution of the Lookyloo project and Lacus with CIRCL;
- The supplier must maintain the associated documentation to keep it in-line with the Lookyloo online services;
- The community management of the Lookyloo project and pandora framework will be handle by the supplier along with CIRCL;
- The supplier will work with CIRCL to test and maintain production systems accessible to users;
- The supplier will work with CIRCL to integrate with the incident process and toolset at CIRCL including urlabuse;
- The supplier must be inline with open source development methodologies defined by CIRCL and the Lookyloo and Lacus community;
Package 02 - vulnerability-lookup project improvement, MISP/CTI integration in the focus of the NIS2 CVD support
- The supplier must handle the development of PyMISP and related toolsets in close collaboration with CIRCL team;
- PyMISP and integration with existing and upcoming CIRCL tools;
- Pandora framework is an open source project and an analysis framework to discover if a file is suspicious and conveniently show the results;
- The supplier must handle the development of the vulnerability-lookup project in close collaboration with the CIRCL team.
- The supplier must manage issue tracking and resolution, including specific and custom developments requested by CIRCL.
- The supplier must maintain the code, including reviewing and merging pull requests from third parties.
- The supplier must keep the associated documentation up to date and in line with the vulnerability-lookup project.
- The community management of the vulnerability-lookup framework will be handled by the supplier in collaboration with CIRCL.
- The supplier will work with CIRCL to test and maintain production systems accessible to users.
- The supplier must adhere to the open-source development methodologies defined by CIRCL and the vulnerability-lookup community.
- Requests and updates for vulnerability-lookup must be followed up via GitHub issues.
Bid submission
The offers are to be submitted to info@circl.lu before the 20th December 2025 12:00 CEST in ASCII or PDF format. The offer proposal must be separated per package. A bidder can submit for one or more packages. The offer must be in EURO. The offer must at least include a description of the package proposed, technical details and clearly mention Proposal for Software Services and Engineering (2025-04).
Selection criteria
- (1) Compliance with specifications;
- (2) Pricing;
- (3) Past performance of the bider concerning technical capabilities and experience with the listed tools;
- (4) Understanding of Open Source methodologies including collaboration and community management;
- (5) Compliance with existing open source licensing;
Delivery location
The offers must include the delivery to the following addresses located in Luxembourg or via remote services for software engineering services:
CIRCL - Computer Incident Response Center Luxembourg
c/o "Luxembourg House of Cybersecurity" g.i.e.
122, rue Adolphe Fischer
L-1521 Luxembourg
Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg
Classification of this document
TLP:CLEAR information may be distributed without restriction, subject to copyright controls.
Revision
- Version 1.0 December 4th 2025 - Initial version TLP:CLEAR.