ICxA sets the standard.
TCP implements it.
Outcome assurance only works if the standard is independent of the people who apply it. So the work is split between two organizations with two different jobs, and kept deliberately apart.
Two organizations. One discipline.
The standard defines what a ready project looks like. The practice goes onto live deals and projects and tests them against it.
Institute of Commissioning and Assurance (ICxA)
An independent non-profit professional body based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. ICxA publishes the Outcome Assurance standards suite, defines the competencies behind it and credentials the people who apply it.
- Publishes the standards for outcome assurance, operational readiness and commissioning as one integrated system
- Maintains open protocols so software and service providers can build to a common definition of what good looks like
- Credentials practitioners and builds the evidence base on why projects fail to start up on time
- Never sells engagements on the projects it governs
Turner Capital Projects (TCP)
A commercial consulting firm that applies the ICxA standard, under licence, on real capital projects. TCP does the paid work a standards body cannot: reviewing evidence, forming opinions and signing its name to them.
- Readiness maturity assessments for lenders and insurers at financial close
- A Readiness Capability Program for owners and operating organizations
- Outcome assurance leadership on complex capital programs
- Training that builds readiness capability inside project teams
- Carries its own professional liability for the opinions it gives
Why keep them separate?
Independence
A standards body can't also be a vendor on the projects it governs. ICxA sets the criteria and has no commercial stake in how any project measures up.
Consistency
Every TCP engagement uses the same published criteria and method, so findings can be compared across projects and repeated on each one.
Accountability
TCP signs its opinions and stands behind them. ICxA is not a party to any TCP engagement, which keeps the standard clean.
What ICxA is working toward
Capital projects are financed, insured and governed on delivery metrics: scope, schedule and budget. Those tell you whether a project will finish. They say little about whether it will start up and perform when the finance case assumes it will.
ICxA's mission is to make readiness measurable, so lenders, insurers and owners can write it into the conditions they already rely on. The standard is free to read, and anyone can join as an associate.
Put the standard to work on your project
TCP assesses readiness maturity at financial close and monitors it to commercial operation, and helps owners build readiness into the way they deliver projects.