A £298 billion, four-year spending commitment does not, on its own, win a business a single contract. What matters is what happens next: how that money is broken down into programmes, how those programmes are procured, and which suppliers are positioned to respond when the tenders start landing. We covered the headline announcement when the Defence Investment Plan (DIP) was published at the end of June. A month on, with the Segmented Acquisition Model now live and the first wave of procurement activity starting to show up in the data, it’s worth stepping back and asking a more practical question:…
