Research and analysis

Annual qualifying defence contract statistics: 2018/19

The annual statistics bulletin is part of a regular published series of statistical reports, containing analysis of key QDC/QSC information.

• From: Single Source Regulations Office
• Published: 12 June 2019
• Last updated: 18 February 2020
  Show all updates

  1. 18 February 2020

     Updated a typo on the infographic in relation to the number of SME contractors

  2. 15 August 2019

     Update (15 August 2019): The total number of 2017/18 QDCs/QSCs used for analysis in Table 3 has been corrected, from 52 to 51. Some of the percentages in other columns, and in the Total row, have also changed as a result. As explained in the ‘Profit’ section of the bulletin, one QDC/QSC is excluded from the profit rate analysis, as it did not provide any profit rate step data. This correction therefore makes Table 3 consistent with all other analysis in this section. This is the only table affected, and its impact is considered minor.

  3. 12 June 2019

     First published.

Documents

Annual qualifying defence contract statistics: 2018/19

HTML

Infographic

PDF, 166 KB, 1 page

This file may not be suitable for users of assistive technology.

Request an accessible format

If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need a version of this document in a more accessible format, please email enquiries@ssro.gov.uk. Please tell us what format you need. It will help us if you say what assistive technology you use.

Accompanying data book

ODS, 40.4 KB

This file is in an OpenDocument format

This file may not be suitable for users of assistive technology.

Request an accessible format

If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need a version of this document in a more accessible format, please email enquiries@ssro.gov.uk. Please tell us what format you need. It will help us if you say what assistive technology you use.

Annual qualifying defence contract statistics 2018/19

PDF, 928 KB, 20 pages

Details

This annual publication includes analysis of all contracts that became a QDC/QSC between 1 April 2017 and 31 March 2019, and includes data for Quarter 4 2018/19 within the quarterly series of bulletins. Data is also presented from April 2015, when the first QDC was entered into.

The SSRO was notified of 214 contracts that became QDCs/QSCs by 31 March 2019. Contractors have one month after the date the contract becomes a QDC to submit reports, and as of 30 April 2019 the SSRO had received contract reports for 201 contracts that became QDCs/QSCs between 1 April 2015 and 31 March 2019, which the analysis is based on. This comprised 169 QDCs and 32 QSCs, across 98 different contracting companies.

The estimated total contract price of QDCs/QSCs was £3.8 billion in 2018/19, and £26.8 billion overall. The average estimated contract profit rate of QDCs/QSCs decreased from 8.70 per cent for QDCs/QSCs in 2017/18 to 8.51 per cent for QDCs/QSCs in 2018/19.

All data is based on the latest submitted report for each QDC/QSC, to reflect the most recently reported contract data, and may not reflect values at contract completion.

The publication schedule for the next four quarterly bulletins is as follows:

Quarterly bulletin	Date Published
Q1 2019/20	15 August 2019
Q2 2019/20	November 2019
Q3 2019/20	February 2020
Q4 2019/20	Annual Statistics – June 2020