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- The four NRENs that signaled their interest would represent an aggregated demand that goes a way above the EU tendering limitation. They reported about 85 institutions and 73k end-users in total.
- The demand above would indicate the purchase of 1500-3000 Vidyo licenses while GÉANT can only buy about 500 licenses without tendering procurement per year.
Conclusions
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- The specific Vidyo/CERN/GÉANT service deal is not
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- favorable by most of the NRENs, as is.
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- The model not salable without tendering procurement so it cannot be safely offered to other NRENs
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- It is not recommend to make it available via the GÉANT Cloud Catalogue as
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- NRENs could easily run into scalability and other national legal issues.
Further work
What I'm hearing from the community is that we have to separate the two things:
a) vc software license offers (provided by commercials)
b) tenancy/hosting offers (provided by NRENs)
There is a need for a joint EU tendering procurement for vc software licenses that is general enough to allow multiple vendors to answer and to be selected. This would give a choice to our community that is legally safe.
(BTW, CERN has to re-procure in two years. If we'll be faster with our joint tendering-procurement than that, they would be interested in buying from us.)
Hosting options can be clarified separately later.