How to win: GeoTechnical Advisor

About this contract

UKRI-NERC are seeking to appoint a Geotechnical Advisor with recent international experience in similar programmes that can support UKRI in all stages of project development to include designing, developing, planning and costing our initiatives across the geo-technical, decarbonisation and related environmental areas, to maximise the efficiency and effectiveness of our investments. This is a high-profile appointment that will provide opportunity to support and progress UKRI thinking in this key area of research over the next four years. The successful organisation will provide all necessary resources to fulfil a range of roles for UKRI acting, for example, as Principal Advisor (Project Board Level, SRO & PD support), Principal Designer (CDM 2015), or Technical Advisor / Analyst. The organisation may choose to take the lead role with other ‘specialist’ sub-advisors to provide a pre-selected core team for breadth of expertise and consistency of approach.

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• ✓Answer against the marking scheme, not the question text — UK Research & Innovation (UKRI) scores each response, so map your evidence to the published criteria and weightings.
• ✓At £6,000,000, expect quality and social value to carry a large share of the score — price alone rarely wins services work.
• ✓Show recent, comparable delivery: name similar services contracts you've delivered for public bodies, with measurable outcomes.
• ✓Start early: it closes 28 August 2026 and a strong bid takes iteration.

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