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Defence Capability Support Panel: Exploring the $9.5 Billion Consolidation Opportunity
The Defence Capability Support Panel (DCSP) will consolidate five legacy panels worth $9.5 billion into a single Defence standing offer, and it has not yet been awarded. This report maps the incumbency, supplier markets, buyers and transparency across all five panels, so suppliers can see who holds the work and where the opening sits before the field is set.
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- Department of Defence
Overview
A comprehensive, data-led analysis of the five standing offer panels being consolidated into the Defence Capability Support Panel (DCSP): Defence Support Services (SON3485107), Negotiation Services, ISREW Security, Simulation Support and Language Training. With the tender closed and the panel in evaluation, this report is built for the window before award, when the suppliers, incumbents and spending patterns of the arrangements being folded in are the only reliable guide to what the DCSP will become. Drawing on Tendertrace’s normalised record of 9,384 contracts worth $9.52 billion in awarded value, and scored against a $63.7 per cent Defence transparency benchmark, it consolidates incumbency, momentum, buyer behaviour, category spend and disclosure quality into a single view no public source provides. Because the figures are normalised across suppliers’ fragmented trading names, they sit above the raw AusTender record, revealing concentrations the published data obscures, such as KPMG’s true $1.27 billion hold on the DSS.
What's included
- 01Incumbency and concentration, including the big-four hold on the DSS and the specialist firms that dominate each other panel.
- 02Supplier momentum heading into the recompete, and the split between multinational and Australian sovereign suppliers.