Traditional models of full and open competition are generally applied for ordinary public procurement contracts, whereas special competitive procedures (such as unsolicited proposals) are permissible under various international and domestic frameworks for “Public-Private Partnership” (PPP)...

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 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...

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 working draft/law note analyses the 2016 policy and procedural guidance as issued by India’s Ministry of Defence ( MoD) on a number of important attributes, specifically in the context of MoD’s publication of a compedium of actual debarment cases in early 2018. The short note then...

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...

Life cycle costing (LCC) is an extremely alluring procurement technique for government contracting professionals in developing countries, given its potential for reducing budgetary outgoes through lowered total cost of ownership during the entire life cycle of procured public assets. However,...

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...