The practice of countries demanding discharge of offset obligations as a prerequisite to foreign firms’ participation in major civilian or defence contracts is not new, and recent years in particular have seen a number of countries, both developed and developing, apply offsets and industrial...

Public-private partnerships (PPP's) have been successfully implemented in a large number of basic infrastructure projects and in the provisioning of public services; and this model has been found to achieve better cost-efficiencies and improved delivery of customer services under certain...

This short paper explores certain issues unique to competitive evaluation and award of procurement contracts based on unsolicited proposals relating to public infrastructure projects and concessions, with a focus exclusively on projects that do not involve proprietary intellectual property...

This short policy paper attempts a comparative review of India's Defence Offset Guidelines with Canada's Industrial and Regional Benefits (IRB) Programme. Important aspects compared across the two regulatory regimes include, inter alia, causality tests for determination of industrial benefits,...

This short academic note has been prepared for training of mid-career IAS officers; and explores intersections of procurement law and public policy issues, analysing possible unintended consequences of an important and recent legal formulation in India on combating foreign bribery as obligated...

Recent depreciation of the Indian Rupee saw increased advocacy by certain sections of the Indian industry for exchange rate protection in government contracts, and one occasion, for incorporating the same in the Public Procurement Bill that was recently placed by the Government before the...

This short paper examines certain contentious aspects of the AVRO Replacement case under progress by the Ministry of Defence in India. The analysis is based on perspectives focused on India’s Defence Production Policy and National Manufacturing Policy, in view of certain concerns raised by two...

This paper on defence offsets reform was presented at "Global Revolution VI", an international conference on public procurement organised by the Public Procurement Research Group, School of Law at the University of Nottingham in June 2013. The paper looks at design aspects of offset regulations...