John Dyer Business & Technology Strategist TERENA 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 ›International Members ›includes: CERN; ESA ›Associate Members ›includes 12 commercials ›EMBL; NORDUnet; DANTE
Community Driven Aggregation Activities at TERENA ›Server Certificate Service ›Trusted Introducer ›OpenCloud ›SPOT-ON
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: › : GlobalSign ›2009-to date: Comodo ›Currently re-tendering open procurement
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
ownCloud Framework Agreement ›Framework Agreement between TERENA and ownCloud ›No financial commitment on behalf of TERENA ›Agreement runs 1 Jan 2014 – 31 Dec 2016
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:...
John DYER Secretary of TF-MSP TERENA SPOT-ON PROPSAL TO EC
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
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
NRENs procurement portfolios Slide 4
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
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
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
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