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OCRE facilitates the usage of commercial cloud and Earth Observation services by the European research community. OCRE aggregates requirements and demand of the research community into a public procurement / tender: to establish ready-to-use agreements with capable suppliers. OCRE stimulates adoption making available €9.5 million in EC adoption funding to researchers. RESEARCHERS & COMMERCIAL CLOUD & RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS EARTH OBSERVATION SERVICE PROVIDERS Easy Adoption Easy delivery Validated cloud and OCRE facilitates cloud and Earth Earth Observation services Observation providers to reach and meet which meet the community’s needs. the needs of the research community. Integrated with the EOSC. Ready-to-use (no need to run your own Efficient route to market: tender). Benefit from adoption funds. Respond to 1 tender - Reach thousands of institutions OCRE receives funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research www.ocre-project.eu in/ocre @OCREproject 3 and innovation programme under grant agreement no. 824079.
• Europe is the largest producer of research data in the world. • The EC wants to increase the use of this big data, the Copernicus program, DIAS platforms and interconnect research IT infrastructures through the European Open Science Cloud. • OCRE is part of the European Open Science Cloud and receives funding from the EC under grant agreement no. 824079. 4
Stimulate the adoption of commercial digital services by the European Research community IaaS, PaaS and SaaS commercial cloud offerings. Earth Observation commercial services, which leverage EU DIAS platforms (Data and Information Access Services), where the Copernicus sentinel data is stored. 5
Aggregate requirements and demand of the research community into a public procurement / tender, to establish ready-to-use agreements with capable cloud and earth observation suppliers Facilitate adoption of those selected services: (1) Support individual institutions and buyer groups to buy cloud resources (2) Make available €9.5 million in EC adoption funding to the research community to use cloud resources at these selected suppliers 6
Copernicus Service Providers Research community OCRE: Tender DIAS Contracts Adoption funding 7
RESEARCHERS SERVICE PROVIDERS Easy adoption Easy delivery Incorporate commercial digital Reach and meet the needs services into their activities of the research community Service discovery and acquisition Meet legal, financial and technical requirements OCRE will drive adoption of digital services and close the gap between the supply and demand sides 8
CLOUD FRAMEWORK Building on two delivery vehicles OCRE is the successor to the HNSciCloud and GÉANT IaaS tenders 9
A tender (public procurement) Using 2014/24/EU directive. Procure with a group of entities Cross-border Centralised Purchasing Body Launch tender in October IaaS, PaaS, SaaS and Earth Observation services Different lots. Requirements input from research community Input from suppliers Demand aggregation across Europe in tender buyer groups: Research groups (domain specific) National Research and Education Networks (country specific) Award to all suppliers who meet requirements: portfolio of services. 10
Efficient delivery GÉANT service delivery ecosystem: reach 10,000 institutions across Europe. GÉANT 40 NRENs 10,000 institutions 11 11
Tender: inclusion and aggregated demand CERN and other research institutions will establish buyer groups: will buy together, via a lead buyer CERN NRENs will register their member EMBL institutions in the tender, EUROfusion can buy in bulk ESA and ensure ESO ESRF Individual research and education European XFEL ILL institutions can buy resources 12
EOSC SERVICE INSTITUTES BUY CATALOGUE RESOURCES DEMAND TENDER, AGGREGATION AGREEMENTS NREN CATALOGUES USAGE VIA OCRE ADOPTION FUNDS EOMALL ? INCLUDING VOUCHERS FOR END USERS 13
Dates and duration End of July: Draft tender document ready. October: Make available online. publish tender; Community and supplier different lots for cloud & EO feedback. March 2020: Evaluation completed and framework agreements signed by March 2020 – March 2024 GÉANT with suppliers (valid for 4 Service consumption years). Not 1 winner takes all. Portfolio of services.
• Technical platform to track uptake, usage of vouchers Usage management • Through RHEA Group company SixSq. 15
Connections & outreach • Selected providers will become an integral part of the European Open Science Cloud portal, service catalogue, marketplace • OCRE will stimulate awareness and adoption • Thus, bringing the selected providers into the heart of the European research community 16
Expected tender requirements • Compliance with EU data protection law, including GDPR. • Ready-to-use agreements, which include purchasing and payment models that match the financial structures and funding in research institutions, such as: acquiring services with a purchase order, postpaid billing and accommodating capital expenditure through upfront commitments. • Identity management, single sign-on capabilities: oAuth? SAML2? • (ISO) certifications: security, interoperability, exit support, environmental, financial and service level agreements, IT service management. • Customer adoption support. • License management and migration. Transfer of existing licenses to the cloud. • Data portability, interoperability and open standards. • Report resource usage to OCRE. 17
• OCRE aggregates needs, demand and establishes an efficient delivery Delivery structure on a European level. • OCRE will be seeking suppliers, through the tender, who can meet the community’s needs and operate in a similar fashion. 18
Benefits for suppliers Efficient route to market Respond to 1 tender Reach thousands of institutions 19
Benefits for Researchers Validated cloud and Earth Observation services which meet the community’s needs. Integrated with the EOSC. Ready-to-use (no need to run your own tender). Benefit from adoption funds 20
Tender not an obstacle but ‘ignite’ usage of EO services SAFE to use EASY to use
EO vs CLOUD TENDER OPPORTUNITY …? WHAT DO WE THINK? m o f r u t n p I t s a n i p t i c a r p 22
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Supplier feedback on draft Tender completed, tender framework agreements Gather requirements from the research community signed. Tender / buyer groups in Consumption: call-offs by and input from providers. place. Start of services usage institutions & buyer groups 2019, , Jul uly 2019, , Octobe ber 2020 & 2021 2020 & 2021 2019, 2019, 2019, , Aug ugus ust and nd 2020, 2020, 2020, , March h – Janua nuary - Jul uly Septembe ber Mar March 2014, , March EO adoption funds Draft version of tender Launch of for researchers, institutions document. Pan-European tender and buyer groups
Collaborate How can we work together, to stimulate the use of EO Characteristics services in the European How is a EO provider research and education different from a ‘regular community. cloud service provider’ How to structure the OCRE EO tender? OCRE receives funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research www.ocre-project.eu in/ocre @OCREproject 29 and innovation programme under grant agreement no. 824079.
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