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D3.2 Procurement Best Practices Interim Report

On the 20th of January 2016, Damir Savanovic, the Cloud Security Alliance, gave an overview of the PICSE report: Procurement Best Practices.

The report, targeting mainly public research organisations, policy makers and cloud service providers, presents cloud computing service procurement best practices in public research organisations.

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GSA White Paper: Best Practices for Effective Cloud Computing Services Procurement within the Federal Government

This paper provides public sector organizations guidance on addressing common challenges with cloud computing services procurement and will reflect alignment with the Federal Government’s “Cloud First” policy per the Federal Cloud Computing Strategy.

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PICSE Fact Sheet

The EU's research and innovation programs FP7, CIP and Horizon 2020 fund projects in which groups of procurers from different countries around Europe are jointly implementing Pre-Commercial Procurements(PCP)s or Public Procurement of Innovative Solutions (PPIs), as well as coordination and networking projects that prepare the ground for future PCP or PPIs.

Download here the brochure including information on the ongoing projects in the ICT domain.

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PCP and PPP trends and user stories in Europe

On the 15th of October, Sara Garavelli, Trust-IT Services gve the presentation: PCP & PPP trends and user stories in Europe at the Euritas Summit 2015.

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D 2.1 Research Procurement Model

This document provides a state of the art analysis of how public research organisations procure ICT services and identifies the challenges of procuring cloud services. The document presents different models to procure cloud services suitable for public research organisations and provides procurement checklists that can be used by IT managers and procurers working in the public sector.

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Final Report of the study "SMART 2013/0043 - Uptake of Cloud in Europe"

This study provides quantitative estimates of the impact of cloud computing on the EU economy by 2020. The study looks at the potential economic impact that the adoption of cloud-based computing solutions by the public and private sector could have on EU economy as a whole.

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Procuring cloud services today report: experiences and lessons learned from the public sector

Digital transformation is absolutely crucial to any organisation whether public or private. It is at the very core of the digital single market to ensure Europe reaps the socio-economic benefits of new technologies. Cloud computing has the potential to reduce IT expenditure and boost organisational agility while at the same time improving the scope for delivering flexible high-quality new services...

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PICSE presentation @ Open standards for ICT procurement: saving while reducing ICT lock-in

PICSE mission, results of the Procurement Barriers report, early outcomes of the case studies and presentation of the PICSE Wizard... don't miss this presentation!

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D3.1 Procurement Barriers Report

The acquisition of IT services is key to any public or private organisation and the advent of cloud computing requires innovation in the procurement of cloud services. Although cloud computing has become increasingly popular, it appears that potential customers, in the public sector in general and in the research community in particular, are facing barriers that inhibit the wider adoption of cloud services. This report presents a list of barriers to cloud services procurement identified through literature, in-depth interviews of IT managers surveyed over a period of 3 months, and input provided by the PICSE Task Force members as well as intergovernmental research organisations such as CERN and EMBL. The survey demonstrated that barriers to cloud service procurement mainly relate to the adoption of new technology (i.e. cloud computing) and the procurement process itself.

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