New Delhi: Defence minister Rajnath Singh on Monday unveiled a new Defence Acquisition Procedure (DAP) that allows the three armed services to make purchases of essential material through their capital budget.
The new policy claims to simplify the procedure by which the three services procure material.
Also, offset guidelines have been revised to give preference to defence companies that offer to manufacture products in India instead of meeting offset obligations through other means, officials said.
The DAP incorporates new chapters on information and communication technologies, post-contract management, acquisition of systems developed by state-owned defence entities like DRDO and Defence Public Sector Undertakings (DPSUs).
The significance of the new DAP is that it reduce delays in procurement of essential items by the three services; they can now acquire them through…
