On January 11, 2016, a meeting of the Defence Acquisition
Council ("DAC") was held to discuss the proposed changes
to the Defence Procurement Procedure 2013 ("DPP"). As per
the information available in the public domain, the following key
changes to the DPP were approved by the DAC:
Given the challenges involved in developing 100 smart cities,
only the capable cities will be chosen under the Smart Cities
Mission through a two-stage competition. This was indicated in the
Operation Guidelines for Smart Cities Mission released by Prime
Minister Shri Narendra Modi on June 25, 2015. The selection
criteria to be used in both the stages of competition was
elaborated in the Guidelines.
New Category for Defence Acquisition: A
category "Buy IDDM (Indigenously Designed, Developed and
Manufactured)" is likely to be introduced in the DPP. The
introduction of such a category would mean that Indian companies
who have the capability of designing and developing
