Vice Chief of the Armed Forces in respect of PAC and STE procurement cases

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Ministry of Defence
14-March, 2018 17:10 IST
Delegation of Financial Powers to Armed Forces

Raksha Mantri Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman has approved the enhancement of powers of the Vice Chief of the Armed Forces in respect of Proprietary Article Certificate (PAC) and Single Tender Enquiry (STE) procurement cases with the objective to empower our forces for ensuring operational preparedness. Till now, powers for procurement of articles under PAC and STE had been restricted to 50 and 5 per cent respectively of normal powers delegated for revenue procurements. Wherever full powers had been delegated in respect PAC and STE, a cap of Rs 50 crore and Rs 5 crore respectively were made applicable.

A number of initiatives have been taken by the Ministry of Defence, in the recent past, to simplify and streamline the procedures and decentralise the decision-making through delegation of powers. Now, the Government has enhanced financial delegation to the Armed Forces in respect of Revenue Procurement as well.

With this delegation, the powers of the Vice Chiefs in respect of PAC cases, hitherto restricted to 50 per cent of competitive bidding cases, has been increased and made equal to the powers delegated in competitive bidding cases. In respect of STE cases, the powers have been enhanced to 50 per cent of the powers of competitive bidding cases from the existing cap of 5 per cent of competitive bidding powers.

This delegation will greatly enhance the ability of the Armed Forces to keep a high degree of serviceability of the in-service equipment, procurement of stores including ammunition, etc. thereby leading towards a significant boost in ensuring operational preparedness.

 

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• Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas
• Airborne Early Warning and Control (AEW&C) System
• 155mm/52 Calibre Advanced Towed Artillery Gun System (ATAGS)
• Weapon Locating Radar (WLR) Swati
• High speed Heavy Weight Ship Launched Torpedo (Varunastra)
• Anti-Torpedo Decoy System (Maareech)
• Arudhra-Medium Power Radar
• Akash Weapon System
• Abhay Sonar
• Hull Mounted Sonar (HUMSA)
• HUMSA UG
• Advanced Indigenous Distress Sonar System (AIDSS)
• Near field acoustic characterization system (NACS)
• NBC Technologies
• NBC Recce Vehicle Mk-I
• 120 mm FSAPDS(Fin stabilised Armour Piercing Discarding Sabot) Mk-II Ammunition for MBT Arjun
• 120 mm FSAPDS Practice Ammunition for MBT Arjun
• 250 Kg Pre-fragmented Bomb
• 46m Inflatable Radome
• Air Bursting Grenades for Individual Weapons
• Anti Torpedo Decoys
• Bar Mine Layer
• CBRNe Remotely Operated Platforms
• Commander’s Non-Panoramic TI (Thermal Imaging) Sight for Armoured Fighting Vehicles (T-90, T-72 & BMP-II)
• Computerized Pilot Selection System
• Dual Colour Missile Approach Warning System for Fighter Aircraft
• Electro-Optical Fire Control System for Naval Ships
• Electro-Optical Sensors for Airborne Platforms
• Enhanced Range Rocket (Pinaka Mk-II)
• EW Suite for Fighter Aircraft
• Exotic and Indigenous Varieties of Vegetables under Protected Environment
• G-band CC-TWT for Weapon Locating Radar
• Heavy Drop System - l6T
• Integrated Automotive Vetronics Systems for AFVs
• Ku-Band MPM based Transmitter for Airbome Radar
• Laser Target Designator with Thermal Imager for Air Force
• Medium Size Integrated Aerostat Surveillance System
• Minefield Marking Equipment Mk-ll
• Mountain Foot Bridge
• Multi Calibre Individual Weapon System
• Multi-Influence Ground Mine
• Penetration-cum-Blast
• Sub-Munition Warheads for Pinaka
• Synthetic Aperture Radar for UAV
• Terrain Assessment System for Trans-border Deserts in Western Sector
• Thermo-Baric Ammunition for 120 mm Arjun Tank
• Upgraded Troposcatter Communication System for Indian Air Force
• Vehicle Mounted High Power Laser Directed Energy System Against RPVs/UAVs/DRONES
• Water Mist System Validation for Fire Protection in Naval Ships.

In the last three financial years (2014-15 to 2016-17), 58 contracts were signed with vendors for procurement of defence capital equipment for Indian Armed Forces.

At present, there is no proposal to close Ordnance Factories or Defence Public Sector Units functioning under the administrative control of Department of Defence Production.



This information was given by RakshaRajyaMantriDr. Subhash Bhamre in a written reply to Dr. A. Sampathin LokSabha today.