A standards-and-requirements room for offshore wind owners — not a vendor event.
Set the standard once.
Let the market come to it.
Take a buyer-observer seat: you state your requirements and non-negotiables to the workforce-supplier market — EOR, global mobility, contracting and crewing, MSP — and shape how it shows up. You set the bar; you don’t buy, pitch or shortlist here. Say it once, instead of re-teaching every supplier your basics, bid after bid.
Why this exists
Providers keep guessing at what owners actually require. Owners keep re-explaining the same compliance, clearance and mobilisation non-negotiables, tender after tender — and still find out at the gate that a supplier didn’t really understand them.
The Council puts owners in one room to state those requirements once, clearly, to the providers who need to hear them — so the market raises its readiness to your standard, not the other way round.
How the Council works
Owners set the agenda and the standard; providers come to listen.
Candid exchange under Chatham House rules. No attribution, no minutes shared out.
No pitches, no shortlisting. You shape the field; your buying process stays entirely your own.
What we’re working toward: a workforce-supplier market that meets owner standards by default — so owners stop subsidising readiness on every bid.
What a buyer-observer seat gives you
You set three things in the room — and providers come to hear them.
Requirements
What qualifies a supplier at all: compliance, clearance, HSE, rotations, mobilisation capability across your jurisdictions.
Non-negotiables
The deal-breakers. State them once, clearly, instead of re-litigating them on every bid.
Desirables
What wins the tie-break and earns licence to operate: contractor wellness and welfare; workforce-pipeline commitments (upskilling displaced fishing communities, veterans and armed-forces transition, STEM attraction into a thin specialist pool); Indigenous participation; accessibility and inclusion provisions.
None of the “desirables” are virtue signalling. In your tenders they are scored, weighted, or licence-to-operate conditions — and what’s a nice-to-have in one country is a hard gate in another. That gap is exactly why owners benefit from comparing notes in one room.
— Peer exchange with other owners — developers, TSOs, EPCs and OEMs comparing standards, clauses, scoring weights and delivery expectations, off the record.
— Influence the baseline — raise what the supplier market treats as table-stakes, so you stop carrying that education cost on every tender.
— Periodic roundtables plus an annual in-person convening in a major offshore wind hub.
— Not procurement, not vendor selection — no pitches, no shortlisting here. You shape the field; you keep your buying process entirely your own.
Who it’s for
The Council is for the people who own the requirement — not the people who run the transaction.
- Programme Directors & Project Managers
Own the delivery outcome and define what “good” looks like.
- Commissioning / Delivery / Construction Leads
Own the field, and the real non-negotiables: HSE, competency, mobilisation.
- Workforce, Global Mobility & HR leads
Own compliance, EOR and mobilisation across jurisdictions.
- Category Managers (contingent labour / workforce)
Turn requirements into tender criteria and scoring weights. Welcome as translators, not the headline voice — and they leave with the one thing procurement can’t get alone: how peer owners weight and score the same clauses, so you stop re-teaching the market on every tender.
Anyone who owns or shapes the requirements behind a $1M+ energy field-service mandate.
Supplier market in scope: EOR / employer-of-record · global mobility & immigration · contingent workforce, contracting & crewing · MSP / VMS programme management.
Buyer-observer seats are free. The Council is funded by its provider members; owners attend as invited voices. Seats are limited and placed by introduction to keep the room curated and the conversations candid.
Request a buyer-observer seat — free
Opens September 2026. Seats placed by introduction.
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The Council is a separate room from the main practice.
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