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Understanding the demand for digital services in research and the role of public procurement
1. eosc-hub.eu
@EOSC_eu
EOSC-hub receives funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 777536.
Sergio Andreozzi
WP12 Manager, EOSC-hub project
Strategy and Policy Manager, EGI Foundation
EOSC-Hub week, Malaga, 17 April 2018
The role of public procurement in the EOSC: previous
experience and EOSC-hub project contribution
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Why procurement is important for the EOSC
Related experience
- PICSE
- GEANT IaaS Framework Agreement
- HNSciCloud
EOSC-hub planned contribution
- Market analysis
- Pilot purchasing and procurement framework(s)
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Outline
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Pan-European federation of
data infrastructures built
around a federating core and
providing access to a wide
range of publicly funded
services supplied at national,
regional and institutional
levels, and to complementary
commercial services
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European Open Science Cloud
Architecture
Data
Services
Access & Interfaces
Rules
Governance
http://ec.europa.eu/research/openscience/pdf/swd_2018_83_f1_staff_working_paper_en.pdf
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Reducing the time, effort and risk
Increasing cost effectiveness
Create market opportunities
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Potential benefits of collaborative
procurement
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7. PICSE: Procurement Innovation for
Cloud Services in Europe
H2020 project started in Oct 2014 for 18 months - http://www.picse.eu/
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PICSE: Main Outputs
http://picse.eu/roadmap
http://wiz.picse.eu/
http://picse.eu/case-studies
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HNSciCloud: Joint Pre-Commercial
Procurement of Cloud Services
http://www.hnscicloud.eu/
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Procurers:
CERN, CNRS, DESY, EMBL-EBI, ESRF, IFAE, INFN, KIT, STFC, SURFSara
Experts:
Trust-IT & EGI.eu
The group of procurers have committed
The group of procurers have committed
Procurement funds
Manpower for testing/evaluation
Use-cases with applications & data
In-house IT resources
Resulting services will be made available to end-users from many research
communities
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HNSciCloud: Joint Pre-Commercial
Procurement of Cloud Services
EOSC-hub Week
12. On behalf of 36 NRENs and their institutions, GÉANT
conducted a pan-European tender
- For Infrastructure as a Service offerings (IaaS)
GÉANT applied EU procurement directive 2014/24/EU
which enables the NRENs and their institutions to run a
tender together via one central purchasing body
GEANT IaaS Framework Agreement
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13. Outcome
- Framework Agreements
awarded, valid until end
of 2020
https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-
market/en/news/results-geant-tender-
infrastructure-service-solutions
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GEANT IaaS Framework Agreement
Benefits
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14. EGI-Engage study on cross-border
procurement
Identified a set of potential opportunities
for cross-border procurement:
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https://documents.egi.eu/document/3013
16. Market analysis
• Demand assessment, buying schedule of selected organisations, procurement requirements
• Definition of business models suitable for selected scenarios with identification of the related funding and
payment schemes
Pilot purchasing
and procurement
framework(s)
• Definition and validation of procurement and purchase framework(s)
• Definition of procurement and purchasing framework for the selected business model(s) together with
supporting definition of processes, templates and guidance
• Focus on both publicly funded and commercial suppliers
• Validation with early adopters
Evaluation and
roadmap
• Evaluation and roadmap to continue the implementation beyond the life of the project
WP12: Main activities
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Demand side:
- E-infrastructures
- Research infrastructures, EIROs, and big labs
- ESFRI clusters
- EOSCpilot demonstrators
- H2020 e-infrastructure projects
- Scientific-service provider institutes
- Research communities (including individual researchers)
- Business organisations
Supply-side
- Publicly-funded providers (e.g. Research and e-Infrastructures)
- Commercial providers
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Stakeholder categories to be
considered for the market analysis
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Timeline
T12.1 Business model
analysis
T12.3
Evaluation and
roadmap
M36M12 M24
D12.1
D12.2 D12.3
D12.4
T12.2 Definition and validation of procurement
frameworks
M1
Involved partners: CERN, EGI Foundation, FZJ , GEANT Association, SURFsara
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Collaborative procurement
- Essential building block to develop an access channel to digital services for
research in a federated environment
- Benefits:
Reduce the barriers, risks and administrative cost to purchase digital services
for research
Related experience
- PICSE, GEANT IaaS Framework Agreement, HNSciCloud PCP, EGI-Engage
study
The role of the EOSC-hub project
- Demand for services, procurements constraints and business models
- Definition and validation of purchasing framework to acquire services from
both publicly-funded and commercial providers
- Evaluation and roadmap
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Summary
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Roadmap:
-Landscape of cloud procurement in the European public research sector
-Recommendations regarding procurement of cloud services for public research organisations in Europe
-Guide to cloud procurement, supported by best practices adopted worldwide
Wizard: easy-to-use web-based service to help public research organisations make informed decisions about how to procure cloud services
Case studies: Experiences and lessons learned from the public sector