SICE is a company founded in 1921, 100% belonging to the ACSDragados Group (the second largest construction group in Europe). SICE is a reference system integrator (one of the top three in Spain and a major actor worldwide) providing, technical consulting and auditing, basic and detail engineering; installation, operation and management of turnkey solutions for the transport and environmental sector (air and water quality, toll systems, parking systems, telecommunication systems, railways, intelligent transportation systems, fleet management).

It currently has more than 1300 employees and 215 M€ turnover of which 30% from abroad. International presence is guaranteed through SICE´s own network in the UK, Portugal, South Africa, China, Malaysia, and South America, otherwise the ACS-Dragados network which extends worldwide is employed.

SICE has a proven record of technical competence and managerial experience in international environments, including EU R&D projects (more than 20 over the last years) including the coordination of e-PARKING, ADA and OPTIPARK as well as the former e-TEN project, TECAPSY, a carpooling initiative that was awarded the “World Submit Business Award for Sustainable Development Partnerships” in the Johannesburg conference (September 2002) organised by UN and the International Chamber of Commerce.

SICE will bring to SOCIONICAL its expertise in innovative monitoring, management and control systems for large transport facilities, such as transport interchanges and Metro networks. In addition, SICE will participate as leader in the field trials activities. SICE will significantly contribute in the specification and definition of requirements from the infrastructure operator’s point of view in the Madrid scenario.