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)...

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)...

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 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...