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John DYER Secretary of TF-MSP TERENA www.terena.org. SPOT-ON PROPSAL TO EC. 21-09-2011. Overview of SPOT-ON Smart Procurement, Ordering and Tendering fOr NRENs. Coordination and support actions FP7 Capactities COH-2012-PROCURERS Support to trans-national networks of procurers
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John DYERSecretary of TF-MSP TERENA www.terena.org SPOT-ON PROPSAL TO EC 21-09-2011
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 Slide2
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 Slide3
NRENs procurement portfolios Slide4
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 Slide5
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; Slide6
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. Slide7
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 Slide8