Why Marchward
Experience, with a clear responsibility to deliver
We bring together senior practitioners around an agreed piece of work. These are the principles behind our assessments, our client relationships and the teams we put in the field.
Our approach
Establish the requirement first
We establish what is needed before recommending expenditure. Our assessment gives you a baseline, a prioritised list of gaps and costed options for addressing them.
Build capability that outlasts us
We work with the people who will take responsibility for the capability once our involvement ends. Where staffing, authority or resources are missing, we raise that before recommending something you would struggle to sustain.
Experienced teams
We put together small teams of experienced practitioners whose skills fit the assignment. You know who is proposed, what they will do and who is accountable.
Our assessments explain the options and disclose any interest we may have in supplying the recommended work.
Why work with Marchward
We offer direct access to senior practitioners and build each team around the work required.
- Direct access to the delivery lead
- The senior practitioner who scopes the assignment remains responsible for delivery. You know who is accountable from the first conversation.
- Operational experience
- Twenty-one years of operational service, then thirteen advising governments. We have stood on the border, run the training and lived with the equipment.
- A specialist network
- We draw on a network built over three decades across military operations, policing, law and security technology. We identify the proposed practitioners before they deploy.
- Proportionate teams and clear mobilisation plans
- We keep the management structure small and agree a mobilisation schedule against the assignment, available personnel and necessary approvals.
- Candid advice
- We report what the evidence supports, including findings that challenge an existing decision or reduce the need for further work.
- Continuity through delivery
- Your named lead stays involved from scoping through delivery and final reporting, coordinating specialists where they are needed.
Working with primes and consultancies
We can join during the bid or take on an agreed package after award. In either case, we set out what we will deliver, how we will work with your team and where our responsibilities end.
Global reach, built on international experience
Marchward supports assignments worldwide, bringing together the expertise each client needs. Our experience spans Europe, Africa, the Middle East and the Americas, and informs how we work with institutions in different operating environments.
Military, advisory and programme experience across Europe, Africa, the Middle East and the Americas.
Twenty-one years in the Royal Marines, followed by thirteen years of advisory and programme work.
Specialists selected for the requirement, with deployment and support arrangements agreed for the country and scope of work.
We agree the scope, local requirements and practical arrangements before committing to an assignment.
Where we stand
- We tell you what not to buy
- The most useful finding in an assessment is often that a purchase is unnecessary, unlawful or impossible to sustain. We would rather lose the follow-on work than say otherwise.
- Every set of options includes doing nothing
- We state what happens if you do nothing, and we put it alongside the other options. Sometimes it is the right answer. It is always the benchmark the others have to beat.
- The work belongs to you
- Reports, data and working notes are your property in full. You may publish them without asking us.
- We declare our interests
- If a finding would favour something we could sell you, we say so in the text, so that you can discount it.
- We do not name our clients
- Confidentiality matters to the institutions we work for. We do not identify them, publish their findings, or use their names to win the next job. If you want a reference, ask, and we will seek their permission.