Bioresources - consultancy support for our 'Review of the Bioresources Market'

Scope of project and overall objectives

Ofwat is organised into clusters; the bioresources team sits within the 'Future Assets and Resources' cluster. The Future Assets and Resources cluster helps ensure future major infrastructure, water resource and bioresources needs are delivered in a cost effective and environmentally beneficial way. We have recently been developing our in-house capacity and capability to deliver our work on bioresources.

To assist with the review we require additional specialist consultancy support to complement our in-house team of economists and engineers who are undertaking the Review of the Bioresources Market.

We expect that the consultant(s) will help to shape the work of the review and work collaboratively and flexibly with the bioresources team. Consequently, we are not specifying all the outputs in detail as a) we would welcome suggestions for work we haven't identified from the Supplier that we could agree in advance, and in any case b) the details of the work will evolve as our review progresses, for example in light of stakeholder engagement.

We have need of consultancy support to:

This advice will be provided through attending team meetings, providing written input,...uld also be expected to write up the findings of the work described in 3) and 4) below.

The nature and timing of this work means this consultancy support could be at or less than 1 full time equivalent over the contract period. The potential Supplier should consider how best to provide the resource as part of their tender - for example, it could be provided by a single consultant, a combination of a more experienced and a more junior consultant or some other approach.