Capability | Audit & assurance
Independent audit & assurance.
The cheapest moment to find a design error is before the order is signed. We check the architecture, the specifications and the financial model line by line, as an independent third party — including when someone else did the design.
What it covers
- Design review
- Review of architecture, single points of failure & interfaces against design intent
- Specification audit
- Line-by-line verification of hardware & performance claims against benchmarks
- TCO / ROI
- Capex / opex, financing & depreciation modelling — assumptions stress-tested
- Thermal & compliance
- CFD / airflow analysis, power & cooling capacity, fire & regulatory compliance
- Cx support
- L0–L5 oversight, IST support & the go / no-go decision towards Ready-for-Service
From national-scale practice
In EU public procurement we take the engineer-of-the-beneficiary role — an independent technical position between the contracting authority and the contractor. These are the instruments that carry it — the same discipline behind DEUS 11, a national-scale supercomputer programme in Cluj-Napoca, delivered as an engineering dossier.
- Dependency matrices
- Root drivers, cascades & feedback loops — every proposed change traced through each system it touches
- Risk & FMECA
- FMECA failure-mode analysis & risk registers — recommendations ranked, not listed
- Requirements traceability
- From codes & standards to each design decision — decision registers with a one-line rationale
- Interfaces & demarcation
- System-to-facility interface & demarcation registers — document precedence declared, not assumed
- Revision discipline
- The revision inside the document governs, never the filename — superseded issues withdrawn from circulation
- Award criteria
- Written to be verifiable by benchmark — tender evaluation that survives contestation