NEW DELHI: The defence ministry is now setting up a specialized Project Management Unit (PMU) as part of the overall reforms underway to streamline and speed up the entire arms procurement process.
The PMU is in line with the government’s goals to ensure “faster decision-making” and to systematically work towards reducing the time taken for capital acquisitions.
The Rajnath Singh-led defence acquisitions council last month also issued directions that all capital procurement contracts, other than design and development cases, should be concluded in two years, said officials.
Towards this end, the MoD has already invited bids for empanelment of cost and data analysis firms as well as legal consulting firms for the department of defence’s acquisitions wing, which deals with all capital procurements of the over 15-lakh armed forces.