john dyer business & technology strategist terena [email protected] 10 february 2014 tf-msp...
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John Dyer Business & Technology Strategist TERENA [email protected] 10 February 2014 TF-MSP Meeting ACOnet, Vienna. Aggregation of Demand Collaborative Procurement Activities At TERENA. Why Aggregate Demand ?. Alone Together. The “Community”. 40 European NRENs - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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John DyerBusiness & Technology [email protected]
10 February 2014
TF-MSP MeetingACOnet, Vienna
Aggregation of Demand Collaborative Procurement Activities
At TERENA
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Why Aggregate Demand ?
Alone Together
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The “Community”
› 40 European NRENs
› International Members› includes: CERN; ESA
› Associate Members› includes 12 commercials› EMBL; NORDUnet; DANTE
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Community Driven Aggregation Activities at TERENA
› Server Certificate Service
› Trusted Introducer
› OpenCloud
› SPOT-ON
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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
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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
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ownCloud Framework Agreement
› Framework Agreement between TERENA and ownCloud
› No financial commitment on behalf of TERENA› Agreement runs 1 Jan 2014 – 31 Dec 2016
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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: . . .
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John DYERSecretary of TF-MSPTERENA
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21-09-2011
SPOT-ON PROPSAL TO EC
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Overview of SPOT-ONSmart 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
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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
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NRENs procurement portfolios
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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
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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;
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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.
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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
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