Support with your draft determination response or CMA preparation

At Aqua Consultants, we help you take the emotion out of your draft determination response and prepare for the CMA to ensure you secure the finances needed to deliver a successful AMP8.

Our capabilities include supported business plan submissions on cost, efficiency, cost structuring, and benchmarking in all Price Reviews since PR09, including acting as expert witness in PR14 and PR19. We can be available around the clock to support your statement of case.

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Our advisors offer strategic and procedural guidance, enabling you to lead your case with robust evidence. We can assist you throughout the draft determination and CMA process in several ways.

We are available around the clock to support your statement of case and ensure you are prepared for every step of the process.

Trust Aqua Consultants to support you with your draft determination response or CMA preparation by providing the expertise and guidance you need for successful outcomes.

Get in touch now by filling in the form and one of our experts will be in touch within 24-hours to discuss your needs.

How can Aqua Consultants help you?

Readiness testing

Assessing your business's readiness to operate within a fact-based legal process.

Risk and opportunity analysis

Capturing and summarising key risks and opportunities within your business plan.

Strategic negotiation support

Helping you determine what to fight for and what to concede.

Expert witness services

Acting as CMA expert witnesses and producing comprehensive witness reports.

Business case consistency

Ensuring your business case is consistent and includes the latest information.

Regulatory and engineering challenges

Challenging engineering and regulatory logic to strengthen your case.

Benchmarking

Comparing approaches, costs, and efficiencies to ensure competitive positioning.

Data transparency

Enhancing and developing transparency in your data.

Technical information improvement

Improving the quality and clarity of technical information.

How do you achieve success at CMA?

A CMA referral is unique in its intensity and pace but it is an extended sprint with tight deadlines.

A dedicated team is essential, led by senior management, with board engagement and approval, supported by internal experts and external advisors who have CMA experience.

Unity and clarity are essential. Companies must lead their case with robust evidence, while advisors provide strategic and procedural guidance.

Early decision making is essential as the process is so constrained, as is collecting supporting evidence and data before it is required – so it is at hand well in advance.

This is what you need to do achieve success at CMA:

Why choose Aqua Consultants?

Tangible outcomes

We provide outcomes that optimise your operation and commercial performance. We provide consistently timely and excellent outputs, quality control, value add, and thought leadership, supported by strong project and team management.

Technical expertise

We have a unique skill set between commercial and technical, backed by our frank and honest approach. We always ensure senior review of output to add value and ensure technical accuracy and a high-quality presentation.

Value engineering

Our consultants are some of the best in the business and go beyond the ordinary to add value based on our industry wide knowledge of best practice and innovation. We can challenge internal thinking and status quo and apply value engineering to solutions based on experience.

Strategic partnership

Our experts work with you as your trusted advisor in a true strategic partnership, integrally involved in your business. By working collaboratively, we can work full time, as part of your team, reducing pressure and working flexibly to bring a broad range of relevant skill sets.

Agility

Nationally based with over 150 consultants, we're able to deliver projects and partnerships of any size, either virtually or in person. Our agility allows us to meet your needs with strong capability, professionalism, and pace.

Our expert team

Colum Goodchild

Director of Asset Management

Tom Hall

Chief Economist

Ceri Jones

Director of Regulation