Joint Data Framework

Tender description

Transport for West Midlands (TfWM) is seeking an expert panel of individuals to provide advice on transport modelling. The appointed experts with have either a proven cross-disciplinary track record of thought leadership in transport, land use and human behaviour modelling; or a deep understanding a particular relevant topic within this. The panel will be commissioned to meet periodically during the year to guide what will be a radical change to the way the West Midlands undertakes its transport and land use modelling, as well as for specific client advice, ranging from deep technical specifications to assisting with the writing of briefs for model development; and / or for modelling applications for specific schemes or assessments. Appointment to the Modelling Advisory Services framework will confer a number of benefits to suppliers: • Opportunity to earn fees from call-off commissions by direct instruction or mini-tender from TfWM and from the seven WMCA Constituent Authorities, over a four-year period. • Appointment to a Modelling Advisory Panel for a sub-set of framework suppliers that includes paid attendance at modelling workshops. • Shaping the forward route map for strategic and tactical transport modelling methods that will address our economic, housing, social and environmental challenges. • Supporting the forecasting and appraisal that will enable us to grasp the opportunities that devolution provides for achieve our local goals and increase our standing in the nation’s economy. • Development of new modelling techniques to bring realism to strategic and tactical modelling and to enhance links between tactical and operational modelling. • Access to data inputs and model outputs that can support modelling research and the sharing of modelling capability through journal papers and conference seminars. • Potential opportunities to see your services to wider client group that will have access to buying off the framework.