Operations and maintenance.
A plant is only as good as the availability you can hold it to — and availability is written into a contract long before anyone runs the machine.
Where this usually goes wrong
Refurbished fleets need a spares position and people who know the specific platform. Both get decided after commissioning, when the parts position is no longer visible and no longer cheap. By then the leverage is gone.
How we scope it
We set the spares strategy during refurbishment, while the parts position is still buyable, and we structure the O&M contract on availability rather than time and materials. Operations are performed by an O&M contractor engaged for the platform. We specify the scope, run the selection, and hold the contract to the commitment.
Performed by a named contractor
Operations and maintenance are performed by the O&M contractor engaged for the platform. PowerGen writes the scope, runs the selection and holds the contract to its availability commitment.
What we require before we recommend a contractor
A promise is worth what the specification behind it is worth. These are the positions we will not sign without.
- Platform-specific experience on the actual model, not the family.
- A named availability commitment with defined measurement.
- A spares position costed and agreed at contract, not at first outage.
- Condition data retained from commissioning forward and released to the owner.
- Reporting against the commitment, not against activity.
| Contract basis | Availability, not time and materials |
|---|---|
| Spares | Strategy set during refurbishment, while parts are buyable |
| Staffing | Platform-specific experience required of the contractor, evidenced |
| Intervals | CI, HSI and major planned against actual duty |
| Monitoring | Condition data retained from commissioning forward |
| Reporting | Availability and events reported against the commitment |
Typical positions, not a specification. Every project is scoped against its own duty cycle, permit path and site.
Tell us the megawatts and the date.
Those two numbers are usually enough for us to tell you whether we have a path.