Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics (CHEP) 2012

Tier2 procurements experiences in the UK

22 May 2012, 13:30

4h 45m

Rosenthal Pavilion (10th floor) (Kimmel Center)

Poster Computer Facilities, Production Grids and Networking (track 4) Poster Session

Speaker

Alessandra Forti (University of Manchester (GB))

Description

In this paper we will describe primarily the experience of going through an EU procurement. We will describe what a PQQ (Pre-Qualification Questionaire) is and some of the requirments for vendors such as ITIL and PRINCE2 project management qualifications. We will describe how the technical part was written including requirements from the main users and the university logistic requirements to the importance of including the acceptance tests and what are considered valid acceptance tests.