EOSC-hub Week presentation as part of the session on Understanding the demand for digital services in research and the role of public procurement. Topics include GEANT introduction, supply chain, national deployments, NREN roles, Iaas framework updates, intro to IaaS and more

1. Purchasing from the Cloud, Cross Border
Procurement and the role of the CPB
www.geant.org
Phil Matthews
Procurement Specialist
EOSC Hub Conference
Public

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• New legal structure for GÉANT
• New CEO – Erik Huizer made permanent
• New Head Office;
GÉANT Association
Hoekenrode 3
1102 BR Amsterdam
The Netherlands
GEANT update

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• PRISM
• GWS
• IP Routing Solutions for West Africa
• SDN Openflow Equipment
• IaaS
Collaborative and Cross Border Frameworks

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GÉANT Infrastructure as a Service ( IaaS)
GÉANT DOES NOT BUILD OR OPERATE A
CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE
OTHERS DO,
R&E PROJECTS & INSTITUTIONS, NRENs
COMMERCIAL PROVIDERS
GÉANT is a service delivery gateway
for those providers

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ENGAGE WITH
PROVIDERS
ENABLE
PROVIDER
READINESS
CREATE DELIVERY
FRAMEWORK
ESTABLISH
AGREEMENTS
ENGAGE WITH
NRENs
ENABLE
COMMUNITY
ADOPTION
1 2 3
supplyside
demandside
APPLY SERVICE
DELIVERY
COMPONENTS,
TO OFFER
AVAILABLE
SERVICES
CONSUME
SERVICES
handover
GÉANT
Application Services Delivery
INSTITUTIONSNRENs
handover
The supply chain

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IaaS in high demand
36 NRENs:
Framework agreements
with suitable suppliers
Through GÉANT as cross-border,
central purchasing body
Using EC Procurement Directive
(2014/24/EU)
Not winner takes all,
but provide choice
12 different IaaS solutions
23 providers
4 year framework agreements
NRENs bring the agreements
to institutions for
consumption
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A series of framework agreements, with more than one supplier, for access to
Infrastructure services, ideally delivered over the GEANT network, on pre agreed terms
(contract, price, SLA, etc) that can be harnessed by the NRENs and Research Institutions
identified in the Contract Notice advertised in the Official Journal of the EU, in order to
provide services to their end users.
Infrastructure Services that are available to research sector buyers
• A series of framework agreements to provide access to providers of virtualized
computing resources.
• Services include compute, storage, database, analytics, and applications
• NRENs can act as brokers for third-party providers that host hardware, software, servers,
storage and other infrastructure components on behalf of users.
https://clouds.geant.org/
Scope

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• Referrer
The NREN acts as intermediary by making the
Framework Agreements available in its respective
country and facilitating connected institutions in
purchasing from Suppliers. (Direct delivery model).
• Reseller
Expanding on the referrer role, the NREN is responsible
for more activities and also involved in the contracting
and billing of (some of) its Institutions’ service orders.
The Supplier interfaces primarily with the NREN and the
NREN may provide additional value added services to
the end-user institution.
• Underwriter
The NREN makes purchases from Suppliers (on behalf
of its connected institutions) and distributes the
acquired resources across its community (institutions
and end users).
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National deployments,
NREN roles
NRENs
NRENs
NRENs
USER
USER
USERSUPPLIER
SUPPLIER
SUPPLIER
Supply
payment
Contract

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• Live for 15 months, ends 31st December 2020
• 100th institution purchase through the Framework in March 2018.
• Total Turnover so far is €4.5 million
• 23 suppliers in total:
• 11 are Microsoft Azure Resellers
• 3 are Amazon Web Services Suppliers and
• 9 are OIP – Original Internet Service Providers
• Further competitions from NRENS who are acting as underwriter and
then selling onto Institutions – Surfnet and CARnet
• Take up levels from NRENs vary
• Supplier engagement varies.
• Take up will increase through time as communications reach their target
and extant agreements come to term
IaaS framework update

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IaaS – why was it done the way it was done?
• We had a strong community voice and we had the
aggregation of demand across GÉANT member NRENs
• Technical requirements - we understood the community
requirement – there was a long lead in period to make sure
requirements were properly captured and clearly
expressed
• Open procedure - market understood, commoditised
services. Result? Efficient access to a range of useful cloud
services by creating the right legal, procurement and
technical environments.
• Procurement activity was used as a tool to aggregate
demand and standardise terms
• Frameworks vs DPS?
• All suppliers meeting selection MUST be added to DPS
• All suppliers in a “category” MUST be invited to tender in 2nd
half of the process.
• No upper limit on suppliers
• No direct awards

11. Thank you
www.geant.org
Any questions?
© GÉANT Association on behalf of the GN4 Phase 2 project (GN4-2).
The research leading to these results has received funding from
the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation
programme under Grant Agreement No. 731122 (GN4-2).