Specific objective 1.4.2. Detailed characteristics of the purchase (tasks)  Task 1. Set up of stakeholder groups  The specific objective is to support the Commission in developing an EU roadmap for the  reduction of whole life carbon, for embodied and operational carbon separately and combined,  up to 2050.  This roadmap shall be sufficiently robust and relevant to be able to serve as a basis and guidance  to future policy and market developments for a long period of time and at different geographical  levels - EU as well as national (taking into account the wide disparities in the progress of  national policies across the EU),. It shall be directly linked to and consistent with other relevant  existing EU strategies and policies and support the achievement of the overall climate objectives.  It shall provide a vision and in this way set out the direction of travel for the sector and public  authorities. To develop such a roadmap, robust and sufficient data, for across the EU, is needed.  Due to the wide geographical coverage of this project, tenderers will need to demonstrate in  their offers how they intend to deal with the multi-language aspect linked to the successful  execution of the following tasks.  The objective of this study is to support the Commission in developing a roadmap for the  reduction of whole life carbon, with a specific emphasis on embodied carbon. This roadmap  shall be sufficiently robust and relevant to be able to serve as a basis and guidance to future  policy and market developments, at different geographical levels. This will require a very  strong collaborative process with relevant parts of the sector, the Commission and Member  States, throughout each task, for gathering of data, for assessing future developments and for  assessing reduction solutions.  Immediately after contract signature, the contractor shall begin to set up suitable stakeholder  groups for this process. New groups for this particular task will need to be efficient and fully  relevant, but can be partly based on existing groups (formal and informal) such as the High  Level Forum for Construction, the Concerted Action for implementation of the Energy  Performance of Buildings Directive and the previous Level(s) stakeholder groups, relevant  working groups under the Climate Change Committee and stakeholder groups involved in the  Bioeconomy Strategy and Circular Economy Action Plan. The contractor shall carefully  consider which kind of stakeholders with what kind of knowledge and background will be  needed, when to use them and for what purpose, and how to manage the process of this  collaborative work. This process is absolutely key for the success of the study and the  relevance of the final outcome, and shall be set out in the offer in a clear and concise manner.  While it is the responsibility of the contractor to identify and invite stakeholders, set up the  groups and manage them, the identification process will be done in collaboration with the  European Commission, which will take the final decision. The result of this task includes the established stakeholder groups as needed and a clear and  logic management process with a timeline which sets out the involvement and the detailed  contributions expected of the groups (what, when, how) and which has been delivered to the  groups.  6