When you acquire complex and expensive technology, be it a gas turbine propulsion system, electronic system or critical system software, you’ll want to extract maximum capability from your assets throughout their service life. As well as the capital investment, a smart buyer needs to properly understand the sustainment, operating and disposal costs for a fleet or capability in order to attain maximum value. CAPAGILITY’s expert team has managed or been involved in numerous major aviation acquisitions, and is experienced in dealing with the major aircraft and engine OEMs. Informed by detailed cost modelling and data analysis, CAPAGILITY will assist you in selecting, and then procuring, your capability solution. Our team can lead or support procurement contract development activities, including contract drafting, and offer evaluations and negotiations.

CAPAGILITY’s experts can also assist you to select, and then establish, the optimal support arrangements for your critical capability. We understand the pros and cons, nuances, and risk vs reward trades, involved with various types of support arrangements, including fixed price, ‘power by the hour’, and cost-plus (or time and materials). Once your capability is in service, CAPAGILITY can help you identify, understand and control the sustainment cost drivers for your fleet, enabling you to achieve maximum ‘bang for buck’.

If you outsource some or all of the support for your capability to another entity, you’ll want to know that the decisions they make on your behalf are the best for you and your fleet or capability. CAPAGILITY’s experts will work with you and your team to establish and implement an effective and efficient governance framework that provides confidence and assurance that your suppliers are acting in your best interests, enabling you to extract maximum value from your sustainment budget, and fully exploit and employ your capability.

At CAPAGILITY we believe that good commercial decisions in relation to a fleet or capability are most likely to be made when informed by an accurate and adaptive model of operating and sustainment costs. Creation of a truly effective cost model starts with a sound technical appreciation of the product and its operating roles and environment.

CAPAGILITY uses industry leading techniques, informed by aerospace technical and commercial experts, to create high fidelity cost models for complex fleets. Contact CAPAGILITY if you want to take control of the cost of ownership of your fleet, and make smart, well-informed, decisions about its operation and sustainment.

Need help with a complex technical or commercial issue affecting your aero engine fleet? CAPAGILITY’s experts can assist you with:

• The investigation of technical issues
• Supplier relationship and performance management
• Insurance or warranty support
• Expert advice in support of commercial negotiations for court proceedings

CAPAGILITY’s experts will deliver established or bespoke training to build the professional competence of your team, enabling them to confidently manage your engine fleet and its support arrangements to deliver the required levels of safety, capability and performance at minimum cost. We can upskill your staff in engine fleet management, sustainment economics and supplier management, to ensure they get the best value for money for your fleet.

The phase out of a fleet or capability presents an opportunity to significantly reduce sustainment costs, simply by avoiding maintenance activities or deleting maintenance work scope that is unnecessary to enable the retiring assets to safely reach their end of service date.

CAPAGILITY’s experts will help you plan the phase out of your fleet to minimise cost while maintaining capability until the very end.