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Programme, Consortium and Bid Support

Organisations with strong engineering, defence or marine services capability are moving into uncrewed operations, and the gap is rarely technology. It is knowing what operating the thing will demand, who to partner with, and how to say so in a bid a customer believes.

What gets done

  • In-house capability roadmap. What to build, what to buy, what to partner for, and in what order.
  • Team structure and recruitment pathway for an uncrewed operations function, including what each first hire has to be able to do.
  • Consortium and partner scoping. Identifying candidates, assessing capability, and finding the gaps in the value chain before a customer finds them.
  • Partnership structures and operating frameworks between members.
  • Technical and operational input to bids, tenders and proposals: the operating model, manning, risk and assurance sections that evaluators mark hardest.
  • Technical interface between consortium members and programme management.
  • Progress reporting and risk registers in a form a customer will accept.

What you get

A capability or consortium assessment with recommendations you can act on, written bid content inside your own documents rather than a separate consultant report, and ongoing technical interface support through the bid or the build.

How it runs

Typically retained days across a bid period or a capability build, with monthly reporting. Confidentiality and conflict of interest are handled up front, in writing, before any partner conversation begins.

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