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NORDUnet Nordic Infrastructure for Research & Education Procurement A Value-added Service Lars Fischer TF-MSP Meeting Amsterdam, 18-19 March 2015 NORDUnet Nordic NREN collaboration Nordic infrastructure for Research & Education


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Nordic Infrastructure for Research & Education

Procurement A Value-added Service

Lars Fischer

TF-MSP Meeting Amsterdam, 18-19 March 2015

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Nordic infrastructure for Research & Education

Nordic NREN collaboration

RHNET UNINETT SUNET FUNET DeIC

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Nordic infrastructure for Research & Education

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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Nordic infrastructure for Research & Education

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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Nordic infrastructure for Research & Education

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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NORDUnet

Nordic infrastructure for Research & Education Do Not Forget the Infrastructure

  • 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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NORDUnet

Nordic infrastructure for Research & Education Connecting to Service Providers

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