Decision Maker: Director for Police, Crime, Criminal Justice and Fire, GM Deputy Mayor, Treasurer GMCA
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: No
Is subject to call in?: No
In 2020, the GM VRU appointed Manchester
Metropolitan University’s Big Data Centre as the GM
VRU’s research and Evaluation Partner for the Serious
Violence programme.
To date, MMU have been a vital component in providing research and
evaluation for the VRU’s programmes of work and informing the
Serious Violence (SV) programme.
Having a dedicated Research and Evaluation Partner has been
invaluable to evidencing the success of the GM VRU. The contract
will enable the continuation of the independent evaluation of the
key VRU funded projects as well as support for wider research and
evaluation work into the reduction of serious violence across
GM.
Following a legal procurement process, The
Greater Manchester Violence Reduction Unit (GM VRU) to award
Manchester Metropolitan University’s Big Data Centre (MMU) to
provide research and evaluation consultancy support from 1st
November 2022 until 31st March 2025. The total contract value is
£780,000.
Publication date: 24/10/2022
Date of decision: 04/10/2022