D1.2_Final Dissemination and Exploitation Plan

The following summary outlines the major assets and sustainability strategy that PICSE has produced during its eighteen month activity. This second iteration, which is the present report, combines the final strategy of the communication plan as well as addressing the exploitation of the project itself. The PICSE project, in its timeframe produced:

Four PICSE Major Sustainable and Exploitable Assets

• PICSE Roadmap, highlighting the existing challenges, barriers and trends in procuring cloud services and presenting a precise Call for Action for the three major stakeholders involved in the cloud procurement process: Public Research Sector Organisations, Cloud Service Providers and Policy Makers.

• PICSE Cases Studies & Best Practices, providing a set of lessons learnt and good practices at which public sector organisations can look at as a reference point when procuring cloud services.

• The PICSE Wizard Tool and a cloud procurement guide, aimed to provide public research sector organisations new to the cloud with easy to use tools to facilitate and speed up the procurement of cloud services.

• PICSE.eu platform, a unique knowledge hub for public procurement of cloud services. Hosting all the main project assets, responds to several European policy priorities for cloud computing, by fostering trust in cloud services for the public sector.

A successful learning experience setting the scene for a new joint Pre-Commercial Procurement

• PICSE’s procurement model and networking activities has led to the formation of a joint Pre-Commercial Procurement (PCP) for innovative cloud services entitled HNSciCloud (2016-2018) Two of the PICSE partners are also involved. HNSciCloud aims to execute a joint tender led by 10 public research organisations across Europe, for which it will apply a revised and agile procurement model, based on the initial research performed by PICSE, and verify its applicability on a European scale. The experience gained will be used to refine the procurement model, which can establish a best practice for public sector procurements.