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John Dyer Business & Technology Strategist TERENA dyer@terena.org 10 February 2014 TF-MSP Meeting ACOnet, Vienna

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. Why Aggregate Demand ?. Alone Together. The “Community”. 40 European NRENs

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John Dyer Business & Technology Strategist TERENA dyer@terena.org 10 February 2014 TF-MSP Meeting ACOnet, Vienna

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  1. 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. Why Aggregate Demand ? Alone Together

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

  4. Community Driven Aggregation Activities at TERENA • Server Certificate Service • Trusted Introducer • OpenCloud • SPOT-ON

  5. 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. 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. 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. 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. John DYERSecretary of TF-MSP TERENA www.terena.org SPOT-ON PROPSAL TO EC 21-09-2011

  10. 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 Slide2

  11. 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 Slide3

  12. NRENs procurement portfolios Slide4

  13. 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 Slide5

  14. 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; Slide6

  15. 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. Slide7

  16. 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 Slide8

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