How to win: 2025 ERA External Regulatory Assurance (2025 0191- WS3202969892)

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Lot 1 – Technical Assurance . Engineering design and technical scope . Optioneering and option-selection processes . Alignment between need, scope, solution and outcomes . Deliverability and programme milestones . Asset-management evidence and decision-making . Risk registers and technical risk assessments . Scope changes and change-control processes . Data lineage, data quality and evidence trails . Consistency with PR24 submissions, previous regulatory submissions and agreed assumptions . Environmental, statutory and regulatory drivers . Dependencies between schemes, programmes and strategic plans . The completeness, accuracy and robustness of technical evidence used to support Board and regulatory submissions Lot 2 – Cost & Efficiency Assurance . Cost-estimating methodologies . Unit rates and cost build-up assumptions . Comparative cost assessment and benchmarking including a range of econometric techniques . Cost drivers and explanatory factors . Risk, uncertainty and optimism-bias allowances . Scope-cost alignment . Allocation between base and enhancement expenditure . Cost escalation and inflation assumptions . Change control and change-control processes . Including, but

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