ECCC launches Preliminary Market Consultation on future Community-to-Market services

The proposed C2M services are designed to establish the strategic, operational and digital foundations needed to enhance collaboration across the European cybersecurity ecosystem.

The envisaged services cover a broad range of areas, including:

• Community governance, engagement and collaboration
• Market intelligence and ecosystem analysis
• Training and capacity-building activities
• Events, outreach and communication support
• Digital platform-based services
• Research-to-market acceleration, uptake and deployment support

Call for market input

Through this consultation, the ECCC is seeking non-binding feedback from the market to help shape the scope and design of a potential future procurement. Contributions will provide valuable insight into the feasibility and clarity of the proposed services, market capacity and resource requirements, potential procurement and contractual arrangements, indicative costs and value drivers, implementation challenges, and overall market interest.

Organisations and economic operators with expertise in cybersecurity, market intelligence, digital platforms, training, community management, communications, events, research commercialisation or deployment support are encouraged to participate.

How to participate

Interested stakeholders are invited to submit their feedback through the ECCC Preliminary Market Consultation Survey.

Participation in this Preliminary Market Consultation is entirely voluntary and does not constitute participation in any procurement procedure. Contributions provided through the consultation will not confer any advantage or disadvantage in any potential future procurement process.

Deadline for submissions: 23 November 2026,12:00 PM (CET)

Stakeholders requiring additional information about the Preliminary Market Consultation are invited to contact the ECCC Community Team at communityeccc [dot] europa [dot] eu (community[at]eccc[dot]europa[dot]eu).