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 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 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 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...

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 short academic note explores possible improvements to India's public procurement regulations, in line with international best practices, for fostering domestic manufacturing in India as per the new “Make In India” policy. The note also looks at relevant provisions of the (now lapsed)...

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,...