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

2. 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

3. 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

4. NRENs procurement portfolios Slide 4

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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