Their own payment-practices filing · gov.uk
Bae Systems (Operations) Limited pays suppliers in 25 days on average — inside its 61-day stated terms
Their H1 2026 filing puts the average 36 days inside their stated 61-day term.
- Their stated terms
- 61 days
- Paid outside agreed terms
- 11% of invoices
- Paid after 61+ days
- 3%
- Reporting period
- 1 Jan 2026 – 30 Jun 2026
- Source
- their gov.uk filing, filed 31 Jul 2026
Self-reported figures from their statutory filing. How this is compiled.
Terms vs reality · their H1 2026 filing
Paid 36 days inside the 61-day term they state
Where their invoices landed · share of all invoices
The pattern · last 6 of 17 reports
28 → 25 days — getting faster
The read · computed from their figures
Bae Systems (Operations) Limited's H1 2026 filing puts their average at 25 days against stated terms of 61 days; 11% of invoices were paid outside agreed terms and 3% took 61 days or longer. Filed 31 Jul 2026.
The direction is faster: from 28 days in H2 2023 to 25 now — 3 days faster across their last 6 reports.
On the latest reported averages: Faster than 93% of the 977 large companies reporting in manufacturing.
That is 17 statutory periods on record (earliest H1 2018) — a historical record, not a promise for a new invoice.
What they tell their suppliers
In their own words · from the filing
Standard payment terms
Our 2025 Standard Conditions of Purchase provide for payment at the end of the month following the month in which an invoice is received, subject to (i) a valid invoice being properly provided by the supplier and (ii) the relevant Supplies being delivered and accepted by us, in accordance with the contract. The full text of the standard payment term can be located in Clause 9 of the 2025 Standard Conditions of Purchase at: https://www.baesystems.com/en-uk/what-we-do/suppliers/united-kingdom. Whilst the company does contract certain of its material business on the basis of programme-specific bespoke terms and conditions, the relevant payment terms are largely consistent with those contained within the Standard Conditions of Purchase.
Dispute resolution
As per our standard conditions of purchase, if a payment dispute arises, then the parties are required to follow a disputed invoicing process and use reasonable endeavours to resolve the dispute amicably. For UK contracts, our full dispute resolution process can be found in Clauses 9 and 35 of the 2025 Standard Conditions of Purchase at: https://www.baesystems.com/en-uk/what-we-do/suppliers/united-kingdom. Any disputes that cannot be resolved are subject to arbitration.
Other information
Where the date that an invoice has been received cannot be reliably established (primarily due to IT limitations), the supplier’s invoice date is used as day “0” for the purposes of the calculation of the reported payment statistics. It is not precisely known when payments actually credit into a supplier’s bank account (we do not have systems that accurately record this event). Therefore for the production of the disclosed statistics, we have made a reasoned estimation of when payments have cleared into a supplier's bank account. Where an invoice has been settled through the matching of a credit note, this invoice is not included in the payment statistics. If there is a partial match of a credit note against an invoice, the payment of the remainder of the invoice is included in the
Every statutory report on record
Most recent first.
| Period | Avg days | Outside terms | 61+ days | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| H1 2026 | 25 | 11% | 3% | 31 Jul 2026 |
| H2 2025 | 26 | 8% | 2% | 30 Jan 2026 |
| H1 2025 | 24 | 8% | 3% | 31 Jul 2025 |
| H2 2024 | 24 | 8% | 2% | 28 Jan 2025 |
| H1 2024 | 25 | 11% | 3% | 30 Jul 2024 |
| H2 2023 | 28 | 9% | 4% | 29 Jan 2024 |
| H1 2023 | 26 | 12% | 4% | 27 Jul 2023 |
| H2 2022 | 29 | 11% | 4% | 30 Jan 2023 |
| H1 2022 | 29 | 15% | 5% | 28 Jul 2022 |
| H2 2021 | 27 | 14% | 5% | 27 Jan 2022 |
| H1 2021 | 31 | 12% | 6% | 29 Jul 2021 |
| H2 2020 | 37 | 16% | 7% | 28 Jan 2021 |
| H1 2020 | 39 | 21% | 12% | 28 Jul 2020 |
| H2 2019 | 44 | 30% | 18% | 30 Jan 2020 |
| H1 2019 | 41 | 34% | 15% | 30 Jul 2019 |
| H2 2018 | 34 | 27% | 10% | 28 Jan 2019 |
| H1 2018 | 37 | 21% | 11% | 30 Jul 2018 |
On the public register · Companies House
Company record
- Status
- Active
- Type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 6 Mar 1986
- Registered office
- VICTORY POINT, CAMBERLEY, GU16 7EX
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