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 "slug": "uk-mod-trade-industry-contracts-2026-single-source-51-per-cent",
 "title": "UK MoD: 51 Per Cent of New Defence Contracts Let Without Competition in 2025/26, the Highest Since 2015/16",
 "url": "https://www.grosswald.org/uk-mod-trade-industry-contracts-2026-single-source-51-per-cent/",
 "canonical": "https://www.grosswald.org/uk-mod-trade-industry-contracts-2026-single-source-51-per-cent/",
 "type": "dispatch",
 "published": "2026-10-01T19:37:00.000+02:00",
 "updated": "2026-10-06T19:37:49.000+02:00",
 "excerpt": "\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLondon, 1 October 2026\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKey points\n\n\n * The Ministry of Defence's trade, industry and contracts statistics, published on 1 October, count 1,134 of 2,221 new contracts in 2025/26, 51 per cent, as let non-competitively: up from 49 per cent in 2024/25 and 40 per cent in 2020/21, and \"the highest level of single sourcing since 2015/16\", when it was 55 per cent\n * New contracts fell by GBP 5.1 billion to a provisional GBP 16.4 billion. Payments to industry rose to GBP 43.4 billion, 3.2 ",
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 "tags": [
  "defense-industry",
  "defense-policy"
 ],
 "sources": [],
 "entities": [
  "bae-systems",
  "fcas",
  "united-kingdom"
 ],
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  "countries": [
   "united-kingdom"
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