OREANDA-NEWS. In its second Annual Report and Accounts, the SSRO reports on its performance in 2015/16 as it worked towards the full implementation of the regime established by the Defence Reform Act 2014.

In its second year, the SSRO has, among other achievements:

  • recommended to the Secretary of State that the baseline profit rate for single source defence contracts for 2016 should be reduced to 8.95 per cent, following a fundamental review of the methodology for calculating the rates;
  • issued its first annual Compliance Report, reporting on the MOD and industry’s compliance with the regime;
  • issued one opinion and received one request for a determination;
  • launched a programme of Value for Money studies;
  • provided a full set of Defined Pricing Structure templates, which determine relationships between costs and outputs, and record the estimated and outturn costs, for every Qualifying Defence Contract;