Operational Audit, Inspection and Compliance Program

The Vendor is required to provide establishing an operational audit, inspection and compliance function to support its mandate.
- Staff have completed a preliminary mapping of operational obligations across multiple impact domains (environmental, health, safety, reliability, noise, visual impacts, agricultural land, and emergency management) by asset type.
- External expertise to:
• Validate and finalize this mapping,
• Translate it into an operational audit, inspection and compliance framework, and
• Develop a risk-based audit and inspection program with prioritized planning.
- Mapping and gap analysis
• Review the existing operational mapping
• Validate and finalize mapping with:
• confirmed obligations
• standardized taxonomy
• Identify and address gaps in obligations and jurisdiction
• Provide a structured gap analysis including:
• Missing regulatory obligations
• Unclear or fragmented jurisdiction
- Framework and risk model
• Define audit and inspection units and audit/inspection types into auditable structures, including:
• thematic (cross-operator / cross-asset)
• asset-class-specific
• operator-specific audits/inspections
• Develop a risk assessment and prioritization framework to rank:
• operators
• asset types
• impact domains
• specific obligation areas
• Develop a clear framework that translates obligations into executable audit/inspection units.
• Develop a practical risk assessment and prioritization methodology, including:
• Key criteria and scoring approach
• Relative weighting across impact domains
• Deliver a risk scoring tool (Microsoft Excel)