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CONDO applies to all Contractors including all Subcontractors and their personnel who are deployed into a JOA or theatre of operation to provide commercial services to deployed operations and exercises under a range of discrete contracts, as well as the commercial services provided under the MOD Contractor Logistic (CONLOG) enabling contract. CONDO deployments may be pre-planned to meet both routine and surge requirements or may be ad-hoc responses to urgent operational requirements (UORs). UK or third country nationals may deploy in to the JOA from the UK or from an alternative location, additionally there may be other contractors/subcontractors who deploy direct into the JOA. In principle, the processes outlined in this Defence Standard will be used for all types of deployments irrespective of whether CONDO Personnel deploy from the UK or abroad. This will also include Surge and UOR deployments. In the event that a Contract Sponsor has a Surge or UOR requirement these should in the first instance be discussed with the PJHQ/FLC in order that the appropriate priority may be afforded to the deployment. Where operational circumstances require changes to normal processes these exceptions will be agreed by the MOD and Contractor on a case by case basis.

There may on occasion be no need to geographically relocate personnel in order to deploy resources for a CONDO contract. Therefore, whenever referenced in this Defence Standard, the term 'deploy' is used for all CONDO Personnel within the JOA and includes the term 'operate' which may be used by the MOD to refer to those CONDO Personnel who are already located within the JOA. Whichever is the case, the relevant Approvals Processes apply and must be completed in accordance with this Standard.

Single Service Operations

For single service operations, a modification of the full process will be delegated to the FLCs. Annex I will contain these modifications and process, but is not included in this issue. The next edition (issue 3) will contain the annex and should be issued by the end of July 2007. A single service operation is defined as one where the subject unit remains under the OPCOM of the FLC rather than the PJHQ.

MOD Responsibilities for Policy and Procedures

The following MOD staffs have responsibilities for CONDO policy, processes and procedures:

ACDS(Log Ops), Director of Defence Logistics Policy (D Def Log Pol) has responsibility for CONDO policy and its future development. The lead desk for CONDO policy development is D Def Log Pol SO1 CONDO Force Policy.

PJHQ, Assistant Chief of Staff J1/J4 Personnel and Logistics has responsibility for developing CONDO specific procedures in conjunction with ACDS Log Ops and the FLCs. Where appropriate, this responsibility may be delegated to logistics staffs within the Joint Force Logistic Component (J F Log C) or the National Component Headquarters.

The Contract Sponsor will appoint an In-Theatre Sponsor for all CONDO deployments. The In-Theatre Sponsor will provide the deployed interface between the MOD and contractors.

A diagram illustrating the CONDO contract execution process can be found in the Guideline For Industry (GFI) associated with DEFCON 697.