Quarterly qualifying defence contract statistics: Q3 2018/19
The Single Source Regulations Office has released its latest quarterly publication on key statistics relating to qualifying defence contracts (QDCs) and qualifying sub-contracts (QSCs).
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This bulletin is part of a regular published series of statistical reports, containing analysis of key QDC/QSC information. Analysis of all contracts that became a QDC/QSC between 1 April 2015 and 31 December 2018 is included.
The SSRO was notified of 188 contracts that became QDCs/QSCs by 31 December 2018. Contractors have one month after the date the contract becomes a QDC to submit reports, and as of 31 January 2019 the SSRO had received contract reports for 177 contracts that became QDCs/QSCs between 1 April 2015 and 31 December 2018, which the analysis is based on. This comprised 147 QDCs and 30 QSCs.
In the first nine months of 2018/19, the SSRO has received contract reports for 24 new QDCs/QSCs, with an estimated total contract price of £1.1 billion. The estimated total contract price of all 177 QDCs/QSCs was £23.3 billion. The average reported estimated contract profit rate across all QDCs/QSCs was 9.90 per cent. 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 |
| Q4 2018/19 | 12 June 2019 – Annual statistics |
| Q1 2019/20 | August 2019 |
| Q2 2019/20 | November 2019 |
| Q3 2019/20 | February 2020 |