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 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 ...