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Procurement A Value-added Service

Lars Fischer

TF-MSP Meeting Amsterdam, 18-19 March 2015

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PRISM

• Optical transport equipment
• Based on experience w/ GÉANT tender
• Joint European tender
• On behalf of NRENs
• Coordinated by DANTE
• Technology expertise & requirement by NRENs
• Framework contract
• partners can procure at different timescales
• Several vendors chosen
• Main benefit
• Aggregating buying power
• Sharing domain expertise
• Project management & process knowledge

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GN3+ SA7 Cloud Procurement

• Two-year Effort as part of GN3+
• Pan-European by NRENs and GÉANT Association
• Coordination by GÉANT Project
• Strong demand; seen as critical to NREN business
• Focus on Cloud Service brokering
• Jointly approaching cloud providers
• Highlighting support for NREN-specific requirements

(i.e., federated Id)

• Building Requirements, understanding business

models

• Establishing models and formats for NREN and

institution procurements

• Main Benefit
• Aggregating negotiating power, creating visibility
• Sharing market position experience
• Jointly creating a framework for a new type of market

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Joint Nordic Procurements

• On demand, NREN driven
• Usually for services
• Usually for framework agreements
• NREN demand, NORDUnet executing process
• Aggregating before or after first contract
• Framework agreements
• NRENs (or institutions) to add specifics
• Not defined by NORDUnet, we’re just the process
• Examples
• Box, Adobe Connect, Backup-as-a-Service, Kaltura
• Main Benefit
• Aggregating demand
• Pooling expertise
• More use-cases
• Re-using what has been done in other NREN

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SA7 as a Model

• Develop Framework for joint procurement
• Non-specific framework for procurement of

especially services

• Jointly understanding intersection between a

market segment and NREN space

• Joint development of use cases
• Joint development of user / market approach

strategies

• Pooling a range of NREN expertises
• Generic frameworks once built enable
• Partners can move quickly
• Specific, Pan-European procurements, with clear

understanding of what is being procured

• Coordinated procurement of ”small things”

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PRISM as a Model

• Specific procurements
• On-demand with invitations to join
• Pan-European – small or large groups
• Hardware, software (i,.e., Deepfield), services
• Large or small items
• Aggregation (demand, expertise)
• Process
• Central project management
• Central process knowledge
• NREN domain experts
• Make use of frameworks where available
• Allows NRENs to join procurements they would

not do on their own

• Sharing the work and and expert knowledge required

for doing the specs

• Sharing cost of process

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Procurement Collaborations

• GNx Project(s)
• Develop frameworks, understand markets, negotiate

with service providers, generics, models

• GÉANT Taskforces / Special Interest Groups
• Capture success stories, share experience, bring forth

cases that could be leveraged on European level

• GÉANT Association
• Run procurement processes on demand, coordinate,
• wnership
• All depend on
• Joint European owner (TECAL, framework repository)
• Coordinator (Project management, process

knowledge, legal management)

• Central resources
• Partner (specialist) participation
• Partner drive and demand

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GA Procurement

• Think of it as a value-added service of the GA
• Not a project; no deliverable, not part of EC contract
• Can use output of the projects, task-forces
• Can be cost recovered - We’re happy to pay for it if it

adds value (and several NREN can share the cost)

• Initiated by partners
• Requirements
• Transparency, openness, public information, invitation

to NRENs, available resources, point of contact

• How to organize
• Central procurement team
• Evaluate feasibility
• Create and manage specific procurement teams
• Procurement legal and process knowledge
• Domain knowledge provided by NRENs
• Worked well for PRISM
• Look at model use by ANA-100G projects

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• Network policy
• Have capacity to transport shared services
• Connect directly to service providers
• Be agile and operated in an agile way
• Keep cost of procured services at a minimum
• No “acceptable use policy” on transit network
• Network Strategy
• As much settlement-free traffic as possible
• Connections at Internet Exchanges
• Private Network Interconnects with key

providers

• Connections at Open Exchanges
• Federated ID a must

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