Ministry of Aviation and successors: Directorate of Technical Costs: Registered Files...

AVIA 93

1963-1977

Files in this series, generated by the Directorate of Technical Costs of the Ministries of Aviation, of Technology, of Aviation Supply and of Defence, relate to various costing matters in connection with Concorde. Papers of the Concorde Management Board are also included.

Registered files of the Directorate of Technical Costs, ministry of Defence, are contained in DEFE 54

Registered files (in the TS series) relating to Concorde are contained in FV 2

CON file series

Public Record(s)

English

• Ministry of Aviation Supply, Directorate of Technical Costs, 1970-1971
• Ministry of Aviation, Directorate of Technical Costs, 1963-1967
• Ministry of Aviation, Directorate of Technical Costs, 1967-1970
• Ministry of Defence, Procurement Executive, 1971-1999

81 file(s)

Subject to 30 year closure

Topics

Air transport

The Ministry of Aviation's Directorate of Technical Costs consisted of a number of component branches responsible for different types of supplies from different suppliers as well as an administrative branch, serving the Directorate's administrative needs, such as staff matters, accommodation and records. The functions of the Directorate included the preparation of estimates of appropriate prime cost of manufacture of supplies ordered by government departments to enable forward contract prices to be fixed; advice on incentive schemes and work systems; advice on managerial control of expenditure on unpriced research and development contracts; combined investigations with the Directorates of Accountancy services.

With the demise of the Ministry of Aviation in 1967 the Directorate of Technical Costs was absorbed by the Ministry of Technology. When, in turn, the Ministry of Technology was abolished its responsibilities for aerospace research, development and procurement (both military and civil) passed through the short lived Ministry of Aviation Supply to the Ministry of Defence, shedding some of the civil side, and by October 1971 had settled within the Ministry of Defence's Procurement Executive.