SSRO Corporate Plan 2020 – 2023
Published on 2 April 2020
Details The Single Source Regulations Office (SSRO) is an executive non-departmental public body, sponsored by the Ministry of Defence. We play a role in the regulation of single source, or non-competitive defence contracts. The SSRO supports the operation of the single source regulatory framework. When exercising our statutory functions, we aim to ensure that good […]
Reporting guidance version 9 consultation
Published on 24 February 2020
Detail of outcome On 11 November 2020, the SSRO published version 9 of the reporting guidance on contract reports, version 9 of the reporting guidance on DefCARS functionality, and version 8 of the reporting guidance on supplier reports. The main changes in version 9 of the contract reports guidance are: The main change in version 8 […]
Compliance and review methodology – January 2020
Published on 31 January 2020
Details The SSRO has published an update to its compliance and review methodology (the methodology). The updated methodology continues to promote timely reports and good quality data, while recognising the role of compliance reviews in informing the SSRO’s understanding of how the regulatory framework is being applied. The previous methodology was published in 2017 and […]
Review of the single source regulatory framework 2020: Consultation
Published on 20 December 2019
Detail of outcome The regulatory framework was introduced by the Defence Reform Act 2014 and the Single Source Contract Regulations 2014. It aims to strike a balance between achieving value for money on government expenditure and fair and reasonable prices for contractors, by subjecting qualifying contracts to price control and by requiring suppliers to provide […]
SSRO Allowable Costs guidance consultation
Published on 14 October 2019
Detail of outcome As part of the SSRO’s work programme, which is set out in the Corporate Plan 2019-2022, the SSRO reviewed two sections of its existing statutory guidance on Allowable Costs during 2019. These sections were: We engaged with stakeholders on these aspects of the guidance during Summer 2019 and consulted publicly on proposed […]
Consultation on proposed referrals guidance on appeals against assessment as a QSC and notices of cessation as a QSC
Published on 14 October 2019
Detail of outcome In 2019 the SSRO proposed to introduce guidance on how it will: The SSRO used the published opinions guidance, on which it had undertaken an extensive review and consultation in 2018, as the basis for producing the proposed new guidance. We consulted publicly on the proposed new guidance from October to December […]
2020 contract profit rate
Published on 3 October 2019
Details Under the Defence Reform Act 2014 (the Act), the Single Source Regulations Office (SSRO) is required annually to review the figures used to determine the contract profit rate for pricing qualifying defence contracts (QDCs) and qualifying sub-contracts (QSCs). Section 19(2) of the Act of the Act requires us to provide the Secretary of State with an […]
Annual compliance report 2019
Published on 17 September 2019
Details The regulatory framework for single source defence contracts was introduced by Part 2 of the Defence Reform Act 2014 (the Act) and the Single Source Contract Regulations 2014 (the Regulations). It requires contractors to submit a range of statutory reports to the MOD and the SSRO. The SSRO’s Annual Compliance Report brings together our […]
Reporting guidance consultation
Published on 10 July 2019
Detail of outcome During summer 2019 the SSRO issued a set of reporting guidance consultation papers. These papers were also discussed with stakeholders at the SSRO’s Reporting and IT subgroup on 10 July. We received seven responses to our consultation, which we have considered in finalising the changes to guidance published in version 7 of the […]
SSRO Data Strategy
Published on 8 July 2019
Details This data strategy follows a consultation published in February 2019. We received consultation responses from six organisations representing the views of major contractors and a trade organisation. We held a workshop to discuss our proposals on 13 March. In finalising our strategy we have reflected on the input provided by stakeholders in their responses. We […]