The Single Source Contract Regulations 2014

1. Introductory Text

2. PART 1

   1. 1. Citation and commencement

   2. 2. Interpretation

   3. 3. Meaning of “defence purposes”

   4. 4. Meaning of “contract completion date”

   5. 5. Calculating the value of a contract

3. PART 2

   1. 6. Threshold value for qualifying defence contracts

   2. 7. Contracts that may not be qualifying defence contracts

   3. 8. Competitive process for single contracts

   4. 9. Competitive process for contracts made under a framework agreement

4. PART 3

   1. 10. Pricing of contracts

   2. 11. Steps in determining contract profit rate

   3. 12. Calculation of profit on cost once (“POCO”) adjustment

   4. 13. Rates agreed on a group basis

   5. 14. Re-determination of contract price

   6. 15. Target cost incentive fee (“TCIF”) adjustment

   7. 16. Procedure for determining final price adjustment

   8. 17. Calculation of final price adjustment

   9. 18. Determination of contract profit rate adjustments

   10. 19. Determination of allowable costs

5. PART 4

   1. 20. Duty to keep relevant records

   2. 21. Examination of relevant records

6. PART 5

   1. 22. General requirements and interpretation

   2. 23. Contract pricing statement

   3. 24. Contract reporting plan

   4. 25. Contract notification report

   5. 26. Quarterly contract report

   6. 27. Interim contract report

   7. 28. Contract completion report

   8. 29. Contract costs statement

   9. 30. On-demand contract report

7. PART 6 etc

   1. 31. Application of this Part

   2. 32. Interpretation

   3. 33. General requirements

   4. 34. Actual rates claim report

   5. 35. QBU actual cost analysis report

   6. 36. Estimated rates claim report

   7. 37. QBU estimated cost analysis report

   8. 38. Estimated rates agreement pricing statement

   9. 39. Rates comparison report

   10. 40. Strategic industry capacity report: general requirements

   11. 41. Strategic industry capacity report: corporate structure

   12. 42. Strategic industry capacity report: activities, people and infrastructure

   13. 43. Strategic industry capacity report: forecast costs of maintaining industrial capacity

   14. 44. Strategic industry capacity report: capacity and supply chain

   15. 45. Small or medium enterprises (“SME”) report

8. PART 7

   1. 46. Disapplication of requirements to give information

   2. 47. Reference to SSRO to investigate obligation of confidentiality

9. PART 8

   1. 48. Contraventions of section 31

   2. 49. Time limits for compliance notices and penalty notices

   3. 50. Maximum penalties

10. PART 9

    1. 51. Matters on which the SSRO must give an opinion

    2. 52. Matters in relation to which the SSRO must make a determination

    3. 53. Time limits for applications for opinions

    4. 54. Matters to which the SSRO must have regard in making determinations

    5. 55. References in relation to contracts entered into before the relevant date

11. PART 10

    1. 56. Information specified for the purposes of paragraph 1(1)(c) of Schedule 5

12. PART 11

    1. 57. Interpretation

    2. 58. Requirements for qualifying sub-contracts

    3. 59. Competitive process for single sub-contracts

    4. 60. Competitive process for sub-contracts made under a framework agreement

    5. 61. Assessing whether a contract would be a qualifying sub-contract

    6. 62. Appeal against assessment

    7. 63. Cessation of application to qualifying sub-contracts

    8. 64. Modifications of Part 2 of the Act

    9. 65. Modifications of these Regulations

13. Signature

14. Explanatory Note