Defence Acquisition Process : Oversight Concerns

Aspects of cost-efficient QR formulation, RFI and RFP, technical and commercial evaluation including time frames for evaluation, imparting project management orientation to the entire acquisition process including post contract deficiencies were covered in a seminar organised by IDSA on October 27, 2009 seminar. The seminar focused on all the other significant dimensions of acquisition, such as empowerment of the defence industrial base in the country for affordable, cost efficient and sustainable defence, the supply chain management efficiencies for ensuring high readiness levels, the life cycle cost orientation for acquisition efficiencies, the organisational and procedural frames for an optimal acquisition organisation, the oversight concerns in the acquisition process and finally the transformational role of offsets.