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 FUNET SUNET UNINETT RHNET DeIC
NORDUnet PRISM Nordic infrastructure for Research & Education • 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
NORDUnet GN3+ SA7 Cloud Procurement Nordic infrastructure for Research & Education • 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
NORDUnet Joint Nordic Procurements Nordic infrastructure for Research & Education • 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
NORDUnet SA7 as a Model Nordic infrastructure for Research & Education • 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”
NORDUnet PRISM as a Model Nordic infrastructure for Research & Education • 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
NORDUnet Procurement Collaborations Nordic infrastructure for Research & Education • 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, ownership • 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
NORDUnet GA Procurement Nordic infrastructure for Research & Education • 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
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
NORDUnet Nordic infrastructure for Research & Education Connecting to Service Providers
NORDUnet Nordic infrastructure for Research & Education
NORDUnet Nordic infrastructure for Research & Education
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