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Transition to MOD new Contracting Purchasing & Financing System

February 28, 2017

Letter to Suppliers

As you are aware the Ministry of Defence (MoD) implemented the new Contracting Purchasing and Finance (CP&F) system in December 2017.

To date £5.95bn has been paid to suppliers (since the start of cut-over on 27 October) and 83,500 invoices processed in CP&F since go live on 2 December. Despite this a number of contractors are suffering payment delays for a variety of reasons. Many are due to anomalies being found when cleansing the contract data, the changes required by the MOD to adapt to the new systems and a number of technical issues. The MoD is striving to rectify these urgently through a series of focused activity to ensure all contract data is sound and enables swift transaction processing. Your support and patience through this significant change is very much appreciated.

If you are experiencing any issues relating to your contracts in the first instance please contact your contract owner. Also the Defence Business Services (DBS) Enquiry Centre can be contacted from 0800 – 1700, Monday to Friday on +44 (0)151 242 2000 or via email on dbscs-ecfinanceteam@mod.uk.

Given the volume of issues we are seeing the programme team is also providing direct support to suppliers and can be contracted on DEFComrclCPF-BTT@mod.uk

H Tayler S Morgan

D Finance Strategy D Commercial

Announcement CP&F) MOD

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