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Defence Procurement Manual 2025: Enhancing Efficiency, Transparency And Self-Reliance

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The Defence Minister of India has approved the Defence Procurement Manual 2025 ("DPM"), replacing the earlier 2009 version. The DPM streamlines and accelerates procurement, ensuring timely support and self-reliance of the Armed Forces.

IndiaGovernment, Public Sector
Alishan Naqvee
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The Defence Minister of India has approved the Defence Procurement Manual 2025 ("DPM"), replacing the earlier 2009 version. The DPM streamlines and accelerates procurement, ensuring timely support and self-reliance of the Armed Forces. This will ensure timely availability of requisite resources to the Armed Forces and at appropriate cost.

The DPM introduces a dedicated chapter on innovation and indigenisation in line with "Aatmanirbhar Bharat" vision, encouraging active participation of industry, start-ups, academia, and Defence Public Sector Undertakings ("DPSUs") in defence R&D, with relaxations such as exemption from liquidated damages ("LD") during prototype development, capped LD at 5% for delays, assured orders up to five years (extendable to ten in special cases), and technical support from the Services to aid successful development.

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