Defence Procurement Procedure (DPP)

As a major boost to ‘Make in India’ in Defence, the Defence Acquisition Council, in its meeting on 16 January 2018, cleared a simplified ‘Make-II’ procedure which will enable greater participation of industry in acquisition of defence equipment.

• This process greatly helps import substitution and promotes innovative solutions. This simplified ‘Make-II’ procedure will amend the existing ‘Make Procedure’ in Defence Procurement Procedure (DPP)-2016.

Some of the key features of this procedure includes-

• The industry can suggest projects, especially among those items which are currently being imported. Start-ups or individuals can also suggest proposals.
• Service Headquarters will also list out a series of projects which can be undertaken as ‘Make-II’ projects under the new procedure.
• The potential ‘Make-II’ projects will be approved by a collegiate comprising of DRDO, HQ (IDS), Department of Defence under a committee chaired by Secretary (Defence Production).
• Based on the in-principle approval agreed by this committee, the projects are hosted on Ministry of Defence/Department of Defence Production’s website inviting industries to participate.
• There is no limit to the number of industry who may respond to the EoI for development of the prototype subject to meeting the minimum qualification criteria. The design and development time of 12 to 30 weeks is granted to industry to offer the prototypes.