Multi-Vendor Project Assessment
Energy Sector
Context
After a year of development across multiple technology partners, a critical project had not produced the expected results. The client needed to understand why, and whether the current approach could succeed or required fundamental change.
Engagement
We assessed the project’s technical architecture, delivery structure, and vendor capabilities. This included reviewing how responsibilities were divided across vendors, examining integration points where deliverables from different teams were supposed to connect, and evaluating whether each vendor had the actual expertise required for their portion. We conducted interviews with key stakeholders from the client and each vendor, reviewed project documentation, and analyzed code repositories and deployment pipelines.
Findings
We identified an architecture that had grown to accommodate each vendor’s preferred approach rather than project requirements. Integration specifications existed on paper but had never been validated, and capability gaps where vendors had been assigned work outside their core competence based on relationship history. We recommended a simplified architecture and a consolidated delivery approach.
Outcome
The client implemented our recommendations and sourced a new delivery team within two weeks. The restructured project achieved delivery ahead of the original timeline and under the original budget.