Working Group and BPLAC Members to present at EDUCAUSE!

Join us on Tuesday, October 10 from 11:15AM–12:00PM CT. Check out the presentation abstract.

1.1. About the Cloud Scorecard and Institutional Profiles Advisory Group

The NET+ Business, Procurement and Legal Advisory Committee (BPLAC) sponsored a working group to focus on vendor management in higher education IT.  In August of 2023, the working group submitted the framework they developed to share with the community and Internet2's NET+ program.   

BPLAC identified the following areas where vendor management activities are performed as foci for the Working Group:

  • Operational (technical) - performance related.  
    • Management of day-to-day or operational interactions with vendors. Maintaining good relationships with vendor technical staff for operational activities, security requirements, and monitoring SLAs.
  • Procurement Management - internal process and price related.  
    • Selecting vendors (RFPs/contracting), maintenance of vendor information, legal risk mitigation, payment relations (Procure-to-pay), tax information and documentation
  • Strategic Relationship - relationship and value related.
    • Bigger picture relationship activities with vendors, shared vision of product(s) roadmap within the institution.  Quarterly business reviews, partnering activities to gain value from the contract and overall vendor relationship (wide-scale adoption initiatives, donations/development, internships, etc), planning budgeting/finance

If you have a passion for improving vendor management practices in research and higher ed, we invite you to reach out to us at netplus@internet.edu.


NameInstitutionRoleFocus Area(s)
Emily PerryUniversity of ArizonaChair


Lester GreenmanNorthwestern UniversityParticipant

Operational

Matt D'EmilioCarnegie Mellon UniversitySub-Group LeadStrategic
Cindy GriffithsCarnegie Mellon UniversityParticipant

Operational 

Dan LewisClemson UniversityParticipant

Procurement Mgmnt

Marra AustinCollege of William & MaryParticipant

Strategic

Rebecca KinkeadCollege of William & MarySub-Group Lead

Procurement Mgmnt

Joseph HolewaHarvard UniversityParticipant

Strategic

Sean NicholsonMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyParticipant

Procurement Mgmnt

Emma LevettMassachusetts Institute of TechnologySub-Group Lead

Operational

Scott GenungUniversity of IllinoisParticipantOperational
Alicia KleinUniversity of Maryland Global CampusSub-Group Co-Lead

Procurement Mgmnt

Phan TruongUniversity of Maryland Global CampusParticipant

Procurement

Steve TannerUniversity of Wisconsin - MadisonParticipant

Strategic

Sean O'BrienInternet2Sponsor
Sue GavazziInternet2Coordinator

  • No labels