This law brief analyses the impact on foreign suppliers and sub-contractors of recent changes made to the US federal public procurement landscape especially by the new Administration, through new changes to the Federal Acquisition Regulation as well as some recent Executive Officers

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 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...

This short academic paper explores the rapidly changing legal position in India on contract extension to an incumbent contractor in an existing government contract, vis-à-vis the exercise of competing options by public contracting officials in terms of open re-bidding with or without a price...

This short law paper looks at the fast-evolving need for data protection, data confidentiality and data privacy in government contracts and licenses, especially when secret or citizen data available with the Government gets shared with private contractors providing goods and public services...

This short law/ policy brief examines opportunities for applying AI solutions in public project design for resolving complex public issues, currently unfolding because of India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Bill 2023; and has been especially written as background reading material for...

This occasional paper explores proposals made by some stakeholders to shift India's bid comparison systems prevalent in public contracts from the traditional "least price technically acceptable" to "quality and cost based selection". The paper has been especially written as background reading...