# Energy Technical Specialist Advisor

> Contract award record from UK public-sector procurement sources.

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [Business Energy and Industrial Strategy](/buyers/business-energy-and-industrial-strategy/contract-awards)
- Contract winner: [Ove Arup and Partners Ltd](/contract-winners/ove-arup-and-partners/public-sector-contract-awards)
- Award value: £30,330
- Tender value: £303,330
- Award date: 15 May 2019
- Published: 6 June 2019
- Contract start: 20 May 2019
- Contract end: 31 January 2020
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: aff3f3f1-50a7-4350-ad1a-e13404631d02-293565
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-daa27f3c-bdd6-4dfb-bd8b-11afa8d23496

## Description

The Scope of work is to assist BEIS with such tasks for each project as may be required as follows: • Provide a technically informed review of project reports in writing to BEIS\. • Confirm in writing to BEIS the extent to which milestones agreed in the Grant Offer Letter have been achieved\. • For each claim for payment, provide verification of project progress in writing to enable BEIS to authorise payments\. • Provide briefing BEIS on technical aspects and likely project deliverability, including risks\. • Attending meetings with grant holders \(and others\) as required and briefing to BEIS on issues relating to or arising from such meetings\. • Monitor project development and provide a technical assessment of progress against the project plan\. • Provision of independent technically informed advice on proposed changes to the project, however they arise\. • Direct engagement with grantholders in the capacity of an "independent technical advisor contracted to BEIS" as may be required by BEIS \(a troubleshooting role\)\. • For DemoWind, work with the grant recipients to develop a robust assessment of the expected reduction in Levelised Cost Of offshore wind Energy \(LCOE\)\. • Any other tasks BEIS may reasonably request the contractor to undertake relating to the DemoWind and BESTF programmes\. The DemoWind and BESTF programmes are about 60% and 50% complete respectively and comprise a total of 13 projects\. The BEIS project manager assign these projects to the successful bidders to that the work is shared equally

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/aff3f3f1-50a7-4350-ad1a-e13404631d02-293565)