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Defence spending watchdog investigation being hampered

December 12, 2016

The defence spending watchdog has told MPs that its investigation is only being allowed to scrutinise a small fraction of the £9Bn spent by the MOD on single source procurements. Marcine Waterman, Chief Executive, of the Single Source Regulations Office (SSRO) an independent regulator set up to ensure the tax payer ...

SSRO examines a number of MOD single source contracts

Homeland August 12, 2016

The Single Source Regulations Office (SSRO) has challenged £61M of potentially nonallowable costs, whereby contractors charge unnecessarily for goods or services that could result in savings to the taxpayer. The independent regulator has examined a number of ‘single source’ contracts, where the Ministry of Defence chooses to work exclusively with a company. The SSRO has already saved the MOD ...

Single Source Contract Regulations (SSCRs)

August 4, 2016

Following the passing of the Defence Reform Act (2014) the MOD introduced new, statutory controls on single source contracts to address a long-term weakness in the previous framework (the Yellow Book). The new regime – Single Source Contract Regulations (SSCRs) – has three key features: (a) Clear rules on how contracts can ...

Single source procurement

Homeland June 15, 2016

Single source procurement: what’s working, what’s not and what needs to change Single Source Regulations Office (SSRO) non-executive member and interim chair Clive Tucker delivered a speech to the Defence Acquisition Conference 2016 focusing on single source procurement. Here, we present extracts from Mr Tucker’s speech. “2014 was a watershed year for single source defence procurement ...