Second draft of Defence Acquisition Procedure 2020 placed in public domain for suggestions

July 31, 2020

The second draft of the Defence Procurement Procedure (DPP), titled as ‘Defence Acquisition Procedure 2020’ has been uploaded by the Ministry of Defence, Government of India, for inviting suggestions and comments from the various stakeholders and general public.

Background

The first draft of the DPP was published in April 2020 and then the deadline for giving suggestions was extended till 08^th May 2020. Various suggestions were received from various stakeholders, services, industry running into more than 1000 pages. The government has analyzed all these comments received from various agencies, specific interactions were also carried out with all the interested parties.

Now the second draft has been published by the review committee keeping in mind the ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat’ scheme of the government.