A number of countries impose counter-obligations on parties desirous of obtaining government contracts and regulatory licenses, generally on account of a strong desire and need to obtain reciprocal benefits for specific constituencies for the contracts so awarded or the privileges so accorded....

This Feature Comments examines the public policy imlications of contestability of task and delivery order awards exclusively before the GAO in view of the apparent exclusiveness contained in The National Defense Authorization Act for the Fiscal Year 2008 under the fereal procurement system in...

This short academic note explores certain elements of the controversies on application of India's legal frameworks on civil nuclear liability on foreign contractors engaged by Indian State-owned Enterprises, along with attendant constitutional and legal implications on non-application of...

This brief academic note has been prepared as background reading material for prior study by course participants at PACT-2013 at the IACA, which the author is scheduled to address on September 25, 2013. It traces certain recent legal and regulatory developments relating to public procurement...

This short law/ policy brief examines important legal and implementation aspects of a recent draft Bill on social accountability published by the Government of Rajasthan for public consultations. It has been especially written as background reading material for in-service training of mid-career...

This short working draft briefly explores the need for urgent improvements to India's defence acquisition organisation, while also minimising conflicts of interest, in the face of increasingly complex and demanding nature of defence procurement cases

This year's 71st Independence Day Speech of India's visionary Prime Minister included an announcement implementing yet another innovative public policy instrument, one that electrified all stakeholders interested in public procurement reforms in India, in the shape of a much-awaited launch of...

This working draft of a law & policy paper has been especially written as background reading material for a forthcoming session on public procurement reforms during in-service training of mid-career senior civil servants at LBSNAA, Mussoorie; with the simultaneous aim of submission to the 9th...

Case law and procurement practices in India have seen an “intertwining” problem emerge in procurement contracts, as in debarment-related actions of procurement officials becoming dependent on successful conclusion of arbitral or criminal proceedings before other fora, particularly when the...

This short paper explores certain legal issues and international best practices on regulating partisan publicity by incumbent governments: an issue that attracted the attention of the Supreme Court in India recently and has led to the setting up of a committee to make recommendations to the...