Decision Analysis Services

A management and technical consultancy operating principally in the defence sector for government and industry. The company provides high value support to clients engaged in the procurement of defence equipment, facilities and services, together with working for a number of major blue-chip commercial companies.

Strategic Support

Strategic support is a term DAS uses to describe its ability to inform and assure corporate decisions. Confidence in the underlying data and assumptions are critical to the decision making process and DAS can increase this confidence by providing informed, independent advice and analysis.

DAS personnel have a significant number of years experience in the defence market providing them with a keen insight and understanding of industry trends and government decision making processes. This experience is invaluable in understanding the future environment in which the market must operate, placing decisions in context and providing an informed, long term perspective to decision makers.

Through their business management skills and defence market knowledge, DAS can provide a range of services, using macro-economic modelling to provide future market scenarios, through to assurance that sound and comprehensive evidence is at the heart of all the proposed options.

The DAS strategic support capability covers:

• Financial Environment – the forecasting of budgets and requirements to identify potential funding crises, enabling corporate plans and investments to be made accordingly.
  
  
• Assurance & Governance – review of budgetary data to provide confidence that estimates are comprehensive, based on sound assumptions and have a clear audit trail.
  
  
• MoD operations – the provision of relevant advice to clients on how the MoD and the Treasury operates, which can support the development of business cases.

• Trend analysis – the analysis of historical data to provide insights and enhance understanding of the current and future environment, allowing decisions to be placed in context enhancing their validity and providing further confidence.

Track Record of Success

DAS personnel have successfully completed a variety of strategic support based tasks for major clients. These have included:

• The provision of advice to global companies bidding into the UK to assist with their strategy for engaging with the MoD and its procurement system.
  
  
• An independent review of the cost estimation process utilised for a major public works programme to ensure validity of the approach and the baseline assumptions utilised.
  
  
• Analysis of the future defence market for a number of global defence-based companies providing an understanding of likely revenue streams upon which investment decisions can be based.
  
  
• The investigation of a specific defence market sector providing analyses on related future spending and market behaviour to inform a multi-million pound acquisition.