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This Procurement Roadmap is the main legacy of the project, and includes recommendations and strategic advice for public research organisations by outlining the innovative approaches to the procurement of cloud services. The roadmap offers a view for the next five years.

New release of the "Procuring Cloud Services Today" report enriched with the following three additional case studies: Taking EU institutions to cloud service adoption through an open tender; Joint procurement for cloud brokerage services; A commons cloud credits business model to support and facilitate sharing and reuse of digital objects.

This document describes the experience of thirteen public sector organisations across Europe who have carried out a process to procure cloud services, or are considering doing so. The experiences vary in terms of success and offer insights into how the procurement of cloud services is impacting their current processes.
The output s of this document will feed into the PICSE Roadmap on Cloud Service Procurement for public research organisations due in March 2016.

While technology service options continue to evolve, organisational procurement processes and policies have remained firmly rooted in historical practices that are no longer effective. In order for public research organisations of all sizes to take advantage of the best solutions the market has to offer nowadays, a more flexible and agile procurement process must be created and implemented.