![]() Meanwhile, since May 2014, the MoD has provided Acceptance of Necessity (AON) approval to programmes worth around $40 billion, to meet long-pending requirements from all three services, largely through indigenous ventures. Hereafter better equipment with a price no more than ten percent higher than the lowest-priced offering will be preferred. The forthcoming DPP-2016 will also modify the ‘L1’ or lowest bidder policy of procurements, which had resulted in more competent weapon systems being rejected, due to minor price variations. It will legalise and monitor hitherto proscribed defence agents or company representatives and penalise, but not blacklist, vendors for contravening procurement procedures. ![]() Under DPP-2016, the MoD would fund private sector research and development at up to 90 percent of the overall cost of designing new defence subsystems and platforms in a similar fashion to the US and other Western countries. ![]() In early January, defence minister Manohar Parrikar declared that the upcoming document would include the new category of Indigenously Designed Developed and Manufactured (IDDM) military equipment, which will strive to eventually source around 60 percent of India’s materiel requirements locally. Scheduled for release in circa March 2016, DPP-2016 will prioritise locally-designed and manufactured defence equipment, reduce deadlines for issuing tenders from twelve to six months and mandate speedy decisions. ![]() Around 968 of these tanks have been upgraded locally by the Avadi Heavy Vehicles Factory to the T-72M1 status with proposals solicited to upgrade an additional 1000 of these tanks. ![]() The Indian Army is thought to operate over 2400 Uralvagonzavod T-72 Ajeya MBTs. ![]()
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