This policy paper analyses different approaches for leveraging public procurement actions for fostering indigenous high-tech industry from an Indian perspective; and also contains suggested regulations to implement an effective offsets-based approach in government contracts. It was written as a...

This short academic note explores potential implications of the new DFARS revision in the United States on counterfeit electronic parts for India's defence industry and for ongoing efforts at streamlining defence acquisition procedures in India

This short paper analyses claims against certain Indian public policies that have been raised by some developed countries, in particular the United States, in the context of the US’s own discrimination policies favouring domestic suppliers and manufacturing/provisioning of services. It...

This short paper identifies key procurement reforms undertaken in various jurisdictions for modernising public procurement, especially in the context of delivery of public services and infrastructure for smart cities. The analysis is undertaken in the backdrop of recent release of mission...

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...