West Midlands Net Zero Citizens Panel

Concepts

• birmingham
• management consultancy
• citizens panel
• west midlands net zero citizens panel
• panel members
• four additional greener together citizens’ panel sessions
• zero
• net
• panel
• midlands

Location

Birmingham

Description

The purpose of the contract is for a citizens’ panel or assembly to support the WMCA and its partners to develop programmes and policies which will achieve the goals of our WM2041 Five Year Plan and which are co-designed and co-produced by the informed decisions of the panel. Involve Foundation were appointed on 21/11/2022 and the contract is due to expire on 25/11/2024. To date, Involve have run an introductory session, to provide some initial training on climate change with the Greener Together Citizens’ Panel. They have also run specific sessions on air quality and retrofit, each running over two weekends during 2023.

Ammendments to Previous Notice

Award Detail

CPV Codes

• 79411000 - General management consultancy services

Indicators

• Contract modified due to additional needs.

Legal Justification

The Greener Together Citizens’ Panel was set up to be a long-term programme of work to engage a representative group of citizens to feed into the WMCA’s energy and environment work. The Panel was kicked off through funding awarded by the WMCA investment programme, but the plan was always to bring in additional funding to discuss particular topics as and when appropriate. The WMCA is currently developing its climate adaptation work, and the University of Birmingham was able to secure funding through the Natural Environment Research Council to support the Panel to do some citizen engagement on the plans. WMCA needed the modification as result of receiving the unforeseen additional funding; the modification does not alter the overall nature of the original contract and the additional funding of £54,000 does not exceed 50% of the value of the original contract value of £149,610 (PCR Reg 72(1)(c)).