The Cost of Changing a Defence Requirement
Repricing specifications, quantities and delivery schedules in UK qualifying defence contracts
25 pages · PDF · Analysis as of 08 September 2026
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What you'll learn
- The Single Source Regulations Office has issued its first consolidated guidance on redetermining the price of a qualifying defence contract or qualifying sub-contract, bringing together rules previously dispersed across legislation and other guidance.
- The regime that guidance interprets governs the largest single channel of British defence procurement: the Ministry of Defence placed £18.4 billion non-competitively in 2024/25 , forty-five per cent of Core Department payments and, in the Department’s own words, the predominant procurement method for the third consecutive year.
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What this report establishes
“The Cost of Changing a Defence Requirement” is a sourced, structured Defence Finance Monitor analysis, closed on 08 September 2026. It establishes what is at stake, who the actors are and what it means for European defence funding and industry — drawn only from primary and official sources. This page summarises what the 25-page report determines; the figures, the evidence and the conclusions are in the report itself.
Who it's for
Strategy, corporate-development and investment teams that need an ecosystem-level view — budgets, industrial capacity and technology landscapes — before committing capital or capacity.
Key questions this report answers
- What is the central argument of “The Cost of Changing a Defence Requirement”, and why does it matter for European defence and dual-use markets?
- How does the analysis address the boundary of the regime?
- How does the analysis address what the pricing method decides?
- What does this mean for European defence funding, procurement and investment decisions?
Inside this report
- The boundary of the regime
- What the pricing method decides
- Amendment, or the operation of terms already agreed
- The baseline that a new price replaces
- Two calculations that are not the same
- Evidence that connects the change to the cost
- Cost-plus, where actual expenditure already moves the price
- Time as a pricing boundary
- Residual treatment, and packages of change
- Commercial pricing and the price of added or removed demand
- Components, and what a blended rate conceals
- Profit, incentive and the pricing of risk
- The supply chain, one relationship at a time
- A public case, read as an allocation
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Sources
This report is built only from primary and official sources, cited in the document as of 08 September 2026 — 4 distinct sources including gov.uk, hansard.parliament.uk, legislation.gov.uk, ssro.gov.uk. The source material itself is in the report, not on this page.
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