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This user guide, template and glossary are discontinued since the launch of the new DefCARS on 15 March and are therefore for reference purposes only.
The Defence Reform Act 2014 places obligations on the SSRO to keep under review the regulatory framework and the extent to which organisations subject to reporting requirements are complying with them.
The SSRO’s guidance on adjustments to the baseline profit rate is statutory guidance to which the Ministry of Defence and its contractors must have regard when determining the contract profit rate for qualifying defence cont…
This page explains the ways the SSRO responds to queries about the regulatory framework and its application to specific contracts
This page details the SSRO's latest events
The SSRO has published an update to its compliance and review methodology.
This user guide, template and glossary are discontinued since the launch of the new DefCARS on 15 March 2017 and are therefore for reference purposes only.
2023/24 baseline profit rate, capital servicing rates and SSRO funding adjustment recommendation
SSRO’s statutory guidance on the baseline profit rate and its adjustment 2018/19
2020/21 baseline profit rate, capital servicing rates and SSRO funding adjustment
The Single Source Cost Standards (SSCS) is a statutory guidance document that contractors and the Ministry of Defence must have regard to when entering into any contract where lack of competition could impact on the value fo…
The Allowable Costs guidance is statutory guidance to which the Ministry of Defence and its contractors must have regard when determining whether costs are Allowable in qualifying defence contracts.
This document sets out how the SSRO will respond to queries on the regulatory framework for single source defence contracts.
SSRO’s statutory guidance on the baseline profit rate and its adjustment
The SSRO's recommendations to inform the Secretary of State's review of the Defence Reform Act 2014 and the Single Source Contract Regulations 2014
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