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John Dyer Business & Technology Strategist TERENA 10 February 2014 TF-MSP Meeting ACOnet, Vienna Aggregation of Demand Collaborative.

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1 www.terena.org John Dyer Business & Technology Strategist TERENA dyer@terena.org 10 February 2014 TF-MSP Meeting ACOnet, Vienna Aggregation of Demand Collaborative Procurement Activities At TERENA

2 www.terena.org Why Aggregate Demand ? Alone Together

3 www.terena.org The “Community” ›40 European NRENs ›International Members ›includes: CERN; ESA ›Associate Members ›includes 12 commercials ›EMBL; NORDUnet; DANTE

4 www.terena.org Community Driven Aggregation Activities at TERENA ›Server Certificate Service ›Trusted Introducer ›OpenCloud ›SPOT-ON

5 www.terena.org Server Certificate Service (SCS) TERENA Certificate Service (TCS) ›Collectively the community can obtain a better price by bulk purchase ›Obtained a fixed price for unlimited number ›Some work devolved from CA to community ›Real cost to NRENs in managing validation process ›Community run portal ›Contractual: ›2005-2010: GlobalSign ›2009-to date: Comodo ›Currently re-tendering open procurement

6 www.terena.org Trusted Introducer ›Established 2001 under the auspices of TF-CSIRT ›Problem to be solved: ›In an expanding community to CERTs how can you be sure which you can trust? ›Solution: Rigorous; Independent; Trusted Accreditation ›TERENA outsources the activity to external company ›Contract Awarded through Open Procurement

7 www.terena.org ownCloud Framework Agreement ›Framework Agreement between TERENA and ownCloud ›No financial commitment on behalf of TERENA ›Agreement runs 1 Jan 2014 – 31 Dec 2016

8 www.terena.org Partnership in EC Proposal (SPOT-ON) ›Early in 2012 EC call COH-2012-PROCURERS ›Support for Trans-national networks of procurers ›Consortium: ›HEAnet; SURFnet; SURFdienst; TERENA; UNINETT ›Not retained for Funding ›Proposal presented at the TF-MSP (Feb 2012) ›Slides appended if you want more details:...

9 www.terena.org John DYER Secretary of TF-MSP TERENA www.terena.org 21-09-2011 SPOT-ON PROPSAL TO EC

10 www.terena.org Overview of SPOT-ON Smart Procurement, Ordering and Tendering fOr NRENs ›Coordination and support actions FP7 Capactities ›COH-2012-PROCURERS Support to trans-national networks of procurers ›Call closed 5 January 2012 ›Partners ›SURFdiensten, NL ›UNINETT, NO ›TERENA, NL ›HEANET, IE ›SURFnet, NL ›Duration: 3 years Slide 2

11 www.terena.org The Background ›Procurement – significant function in the NRENs ›NREN portfolios expanding ›Cloud Service; Hosting; Mobile Services; ›Software Licensing ›40 NRENs repeating the process ›Prior interest in solving this problem Slide 3

12 www.terena.org NRENs procurement portfolios Slide 4

13 www.terena.org SPOT-ON concept ›Procurement requires specialist knowledge ›Market, good practice, legal, procurement rules … ›Wide variety of NRENs; portfolios & approaches ›SPOT-ON aims to share skills & expertise: ›Increasing procurement efficiency for our community ›Innovating procurement processes & methods ›Knowledge dissemination Slide 5

14 www.terena.org Information Dissemination ›Planned NREN tenders ›collaborative or co-operative tendering may be considered, resulting in better offerings ›Post tender information ›Evaluation and results ›Intelligence ›evaluation models, scorecards and assessment models ›Best Practice; Slide 6

15 www.terena.org SPOT-ON Timeline ›Year 1 ›project set-up, organising the platform and information gathering ›Year 2 ›info analysis, problem solving and defining structures. Set-up of repository, NREN tender catalogue and SPOT-ON exchange platform ›Year 3 ›implementing solutions and dissemination. Slide 7

16 www.terena.org SPOT-ON Deliverables ›Open website ›Closed partners collaboration platform ›Promotional material including ›Workshops ›Documentation ›Legal & commercial Findings ›Best Practice documents and templates ›Newsletter ›Final conference Slide 8


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