Commercial and Technical Capital Consultants

The scope of the services to be provided fall into the following three areas: 1. Enabling - Services in support to Strategic Planning to complement the in-house function will be required in the areas not limited to business strategy, economic analysis, business case articulation, asset management, specialist support and support to PR29 development. 2. Solution Delivery - Services in support to Tactical Planning to complement the in-house function and in relation to the delivery of the capital plan will be required in the areas not limited to programme optimisation, root cause analysis, needs challenge and TOTEX optioneering, specialist modelling, Principal Designer Duties under CDM. 3. Design - Services in support of Capital Delivery will be required in the areas not limited to concept, definition and detailed design, tender documentation and evaluation, support to regulatory programmes, asset health and condition inspections, ECC site supervision, data gathering and analytics, provision of technical resource via secondment, Principal Designer duties under CDM. The main focus of this lot will be item 2 above - Solution Delivery, however, consultants will need to demonstrate capability across all three areas. The estimated annual value of this lot is in the range of £5m - £15m.

Provision of commercial services predominantly across its capital investment programme. The requirements will include: 1. Strategic Services: NWG require a consultant to provide strategic commercial services across its infrastructure and non-infrastructure investment programme. The consultant will be expected to provide overall strategic services working closely with NWG and its supply chain. These services will generally be programme level and outcome focused with the commercial partner providing initiatives such as (but not limited to); commercial forums, programme and contract management dashboard reporting, provision of NEC Contract Management Software, Training (e.g. NEC), risk and opportunity management, integrated risk and value management, cross industry insights, best practice procurement insights and other value add services by agreement. 2. Core Services: The consultant partner will also provide core transactional commercial services predominantly focusing on project level capital investment. This covers services including but not limited to the provision of cost management services, Target cost validation, NEC contract administration services eg ECC Project Manager and assistance with tender documents preparation and evaluation. 3. Optional Services: The consultant partner may be requested to provide forensic cost audit services, these include the review of expenditure against contract, accuracy pf payment claims and invoices, correct application of rates, rebates and other discount models. The estimated value of this lot per annum is £2m - £4m.