NEW DELHI: Unable to woo enough private players to the Defence sector to implement Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘Make in India’ agenda, Manohar Parrikar-headed Ministry of Defence(MoD) is reviewing the existing Defence Procurement Procedures (DPP-2013).
Parrikar, at his maiden Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) meet on Saturday, had deferred the decision on the joint bid by Tata Sons and global aircraft major Airbus Defence and Space for replacing the ageing fleet of IAF’s AVRO cargo aircraft.
Perhaps, the minister wanted to avoid the single vendor situation, which was meant to be an open tender.
Parrikar’s predecessor Arun Jaitley had in July decided to open up the contract to procure 56 transport aircraft to include the private sector in partnership with global vendors through the ‘Buy & Make’ route.
40 of these aircraft will be manufactured in the country by a local agency from the private sector and the agency will be chosen by the original equipment manufacturer.