Acquisition Reform

Balancing the need to properly equip our troops, while at the same addressing a crippling budget deficit, is a major factor in why the call for acquisition reform is high on the political agenda. Additionally, ensuring our armed forces have the tools they need (when they need them) to meet future defence and security challenges, demands an approach to procurement that is agile, comprehensively informed and managed with maximum efficiently.

The independent Review of (Defence) Acquisition by Bernard Gray in October 2009 identified two main themes: a need to bring equipment plans into line with likely available resources; and a need to improve equipment programme planning, management and delivery. These themes were accepted and expanded upon in the UK MOD's subsequent

Defence Strategy for Acquisition Reform and form a major part of the thinking for the upcoming Strategic Defence and Security Review due to be published this autumn.

As an independent professional services company with over two decades' experience supporting the Private and Public sectors on best practice procurement, VEGA is ideally placed to advise UK MOD on how best to act upon options available and to help ensure that the required transformation process is an unqualified success. Our knowledge and experience can help inform critical investment decisions by providing auditable evidence of the consequences of those decisions. Additionally, VEGA can help provide insight on the performance of extant capabilities, as well as provide clarity to the impact of technology insertion. Finally, utilising innovative approaches to complex commercial issues, VEGA can work alongside, manage and take responsibility for the way that projects and programmes run to ensure efficiency targets are reached and in-service dates achieved.

This section of our website constitutes both VEGA’s latest thinking and related activities in support of acquisition reform.