Public Expenditure & Procurement

Three Suppliers, One Installation Chain

DLA's $200 million barrier vehicle diversifies the manufactured article, not the engineering that installs it.

19 hrs ago

Six Deep-Strike Programmes, One Unresolved Interface

Launcher and effector control is being fixed nationally while NATO’s multinational project remains at the establishment stage

Aug 19

Central Visibility, Distributed Authority in NATO Procurement

A unified industry portal aggregates five originators while award, budget and security authority remain unmoved

Aug 17

Central Visibility, Distributed Authority in NATO Procurement

How a unified industry portal changes supplier discovery without moving eligibility, evaluation or award powers

Aug 16

The Break Between Research Contract and Assured Purchase

Can UKDI’s reopened call create a repeatable route from public-safety experiment to assured procurement?

Aug 16

Contractual Concentration and the Qualified Wheel Assembly

A $191.6 million requirements contract concentrates ordering for five years without establishing that the industrial base narrowed

Aug 16

The Procurement Centre without a Common Buyer

How thirty-six ammunition lots worth €1.618 billion were awarded without a published competition

Aug 16

Energy Savings Contracting and the Limits of Disclosure

What a $44.3 million naval task order records, and what the instrument is not obliged to reveal

Aug 15

The Indian Vendor Test before the Tender

A protected tier for Indian-owned design and a localisation tier where imported technology satisfies the percentage

Aug 15

A National Order Inside a Common Baseline

Australian funds, Boeing’s integration and United States configuration authority meet in an $11.381 million flight-control software order.

Aug 14

Buying 188 Hammerheads after the Prototype

How a state finances serial production from the only supplier able to change the design

Aug 14

Pooling Aircraft That Nations Already Own

Seven Allies have signed a non-binding letter; the fleet begins where the right of unilateral recall ends

Aug 14

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