Marine Consultancy

Technical advisory on a defined marine operational question

Normative anchor: Defined per engagement
Answers to: Technical & Operations Director
Charging unit: Defined per engagement
Primary output: Technical opinion or advisory report

The broadest entry in the catalogue by design: an operation being planned, a procedure being written, a finding being disputed. The subject is open; the boundary is not. Every engagement fixes its question, its deliverable and its exclusions in writing before it opens — because consultancy without a declared boundary is where scope creep lives, and it is the client who pays for it.

In scope

A defined question, agreed in writing, with the deliverable and the boundary stated before the engagement opens.
Desk review of the relevant documentation and standards.
Written technical opinion, with the reasoning and the sources cited.
One round of clarification on the delivered opinion.

Not in scope

Anything outside the question as agreed. A new question is a new engagement, and we will say so rather than absorb it.
Expert witness work, testimony or representation in dispute resolution.
Design, engineering or classification approval of any kind.
Ongoing retained advice, unless bought as a retainer with its own terms.

Declared so the conversation happens before the campaign, not in the middle of it.

Deliverables

What you receive

Written technical opinion with reasoning and sources cited.
Supporting analysis where the question requires it.
One clarification round.

Scoping

What drives the effort

These move the size of the campaign. None of them moves the standard it is measured against.

Scope of the question
Volume of documentation to review
Whether vessel attendance is required

These drive effort, not price. Pricing is quoted after the specification call, together with the documents we will need from you.

Related scopes