Consultation outcome

Reform of the Single Source Contract Regulations (SSCRs) - secondary legislation

This was published under the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government
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Detail of outcome

This consultation sought views on the detailed approach to the secondary legislation needed to deliver the most urgent reforms to the SSCRs.

The response document summarises those views and sets out the government’s approach to implementing the reforms, having taken them into account.


Original consultation

Summary

A consultation seeking views on the detailed approach to the secondary legislation.

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Consultation description

The Ministry of Defence introduced the SSCRs to address long-standing issues with the £9 billion per year spent non-competitive defence procurement. The regulations are designed to provide value for money while ensuring fair prices are paid to industry.

A Command Paper set out proposals to provide the choice and flexibility needed to ensure that the SSCRs can be applied to a wider range of contracts and to speed up and simplify the acquisition process.

Implementation of these reforms requires primary and secondary legislation. This consultation seeks views on the detailed approach to the secondary legislation which will deliver the most urgent reforms.

Documents

Updates to this page

Published 1 November 2023
Last updated 18 January 2024 + show all updates
  1. Added: 'Defence and Security Industrial Strategy: Consultation on amendments to the Single Source Contract Regulations - Government response'.

  2. First published.

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