Incomplete baseline
Legacy equipment, fragmented drawings, uncertain operating data or undocumented modifications prevent responsible pricing and design.
Technical Assessment & Concept Definition
Convert ambiguity into an executable engineering scope.
A structured decision package that turns unclear marine, offshore and industrial requirements into a defined baseline, option map and executable scope.
01Requirements
Inputs, constraints and the decision to be made
→02Options
Feasible directions and explicit trade-offs
→03Baseline
Requirements, interfaces, assumptions and risks
→04Next scope
An executable engineering and commercial pathway
Stage 0 · Decision package
Define the decision before committing to the solution.
Complex engineering projects often begin before requirements, interfaces or available data are mature enough to price, design or manufacture responsibly.
MareForge Stage 0 establishes a controlled technical and commercial baseline. It gives the economic buyer and technical team a common view of the problem, the feasible directions, the principal risks and the next scope worth funding.
The output is not a preliminary drawing exercise. It is a structured basis for an informed engineering and investment decision.
Engagement signals
Use Stage 0 when the problem is serious but the scope is not yet safe to execute.
Multiple solution paths
Several concepts appear feasible, but their operational, manufacturing, compliance and cost trade-offs are not explicit.
Critical interfaces
The requirement crosses equipment, vessel, site, supplier, electrical, controls or regulatory boundaries.
Premature commitment risk
A project is approaching procurement or detailed design without a stable decision basis and agreed acceptance criteria.
Defined outputs
A concise package built for technical and commercial decisions.
Problem Definition
The operational decision, engineering problem and success conditions stated in practical terms.
Requirements Baseline
Functions, constraints, interfaces and acceptance assumptions consolidated into a controlled baseline.
Data-Gap Register
Known inputs, missing evidence, working assumptions and the consequences of unresolved information.
Option Map
Feasible technical directions compared through explicit advantages, limitations and dependencies.
Concept Direction
The recommended architecture expressed through sketches, block diagrams or interface logic—not detailed design.
Risk & Opportunity Register
Technical, operational, manufacturing, programme and commercial exposure prioritised for action.
Compliance & Interface Map
Applicable standards, classification and regulatory pathways, together with ownership of each critical interface.
ROM & Recommended Next Scope
Order-of-magnitude cost and schedule ranges plus a defined pathway into engineering, capacity or execution.
Controlled progression
Four stages. One decision-ready baseline.
Frame
Confirm the decision, available inputs, stakeholders, constraints and the questions the assessment must answer.
Analyse
Interrogate the baseline, develop options, expose gaps and map technical, commercial and compliance dependencies.
Review
Test assumptions and trade-offs with the client team before selecting the preferred concept direction.
Decide
Issue the executive decision package, controlled registers and the recommended next statement of work.
Scope boundaries
Stage 0 defines the work; it does not silently absorb the work.
- Detailed engineering and production drawings sit outside Stage 0.
- Certified FEA, CFD, class approval and conformity assessment require a separate written scope.
- Procurement, manufacturing quotations and supplier commitments begin only under an approved follow-on scope.
- Performance obligations depend on an agreed and adequately verified technical baseline.
Commercial discipline
A fixed decision package with explicit entry conditions.
- Fixed fee follows a fixed assessment scope and agreed deliverables.
- Kick-off follows a signed SOW, cleared commencement payment and receipt of the required client inputs.
- Client-caused delays move the reserved delivery slot.
- Any follow-on engineering or execution proceeds under a new written scope.
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