DACP overarching objective:
“To bring about a step change improvement in acquisition performance – in the delivery of capability to the Front Line and value for money for the taxpayer – through creating a more agile acquisition organisation system and managing capability through life.”
DACP was a single coherent reform programme initiated to deliver aspects of the cultural, behavioural, procedural and organisational change identified in the Defence Industrial Strategy and the Enabling Acquisition Change (EAC) report and the five supporting objectives agreed in the programme’s final year: an equipment and support plan that is more stable, affordable and realistic whilst allowing greater agility; significantly shorter acquisition cycle times reducing the time from decision to effect; reduced cost of doing business for both MOD and Industry; more effective delivery focussing on taking forward the benefits of the creation of DE&S and industrial transformation including the transformation of the commercial function.
The DACP formally closed on 31st March 2009 but work continues to take forward the main elements of the programme:
- embedding of processes and structures for the planning and management of military capability through life. These changes properly joined up the parts of MOD responsible for acquisition including the front line user
- taking forward through the PACE programme the benefits of merging the Defence Procurement Agency and the Defence Logistics Organisation in April 2007 to create a single Defence Support and Equipment organisation. This brought some 25,000 people together in an integrated procurement and support organisation with responsibility for around £15 billion of annual expenditure
- transforming the commercial function.