Energy Technical Specialist Advisor

Tender 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.