Mission:
To assist the Cluster Opportunity Group in developing strategic policies and actions, and in partnership with other agencies, in order to enhance, develop and sustain regional ICT penetration into local, regional and national public organisations.
Purpose to:
- ascertain the current level of activity of supplying public bodies across the cluster and identify the issues confronting the region’s ICT businesses in the public sector market.
- identify methods of encouragement, engagement and the means to expand the number of businesses able to conduct trade with the public sector.
- provide leadership and direction on behalf of the cluster and develop a coherent programme of complimentary strategies with other agencies and bodies in pursuit of exploiting this market.
- disseminate knowledge of methods of penetrating the public sector market within and across employer, partner and stakeholder organisations.
- recommend strategic priorities and actions, both to AWM and other public bodies, on how they can assist in trading locally without comprising their mandatory commitment to obtain “best value” etc.
- measure the effectiveness of the actions taken.
- promote networking and related issues across and between employer, partner and stakeholder organisations.
Meeting Arrangements:
As required to achieve successful actions and outcomes.
Composition:
Business Link Regional ICT Co-ordinator (Lynne Wroe)
WMLGA Representative (Geoff Hyde of Coventry City Council)
Advantage West Midlands Representative (David Hooper)
Business member of the COG (vacant)
NHS Procurement representative (Andy Harris of University Hospital Birmingham NHS Trust)
Birmingham Chamber Contracts & Tenders Bureau (Richard Dooner)
Medilink West Midlands (Chris Dyke)
Warwickshire County Council (Leigh HUnt)
SME community (Bob Boyd - Boyd Networks, Ian Pugh - CGP Associates Ltd)
Additional participants to be invited on an on-going basis.