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John DyerBusiness & Technology StrategistTERENAdyer@terena.org

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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