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The authorities plans to procure six accelerated patrol boats for the equipped forces, fundamentally required to get capableness of tiny squad insertion for “surveillance and reconnaissance”, according to the Request for Proposal (RFP) issued for it.
The opening day for the ‘Request for Technical and Commercial Proposal for Procurement of six accelerated patrol boats (FPBs) nether Buy (Indian-IDDM) category’, is October 21, and the closing day is January 13, 2026.
‘Buy (Indian-IDDM)’ class refers to the procurement of products from an Indian vendor that person been indigenously designed, developed and manufactured with a minimum of 50% indigenous contented connected outgo ground of the full declaration value.
According to the salient aspects and timelines of the acquisition mentioned successful the RFP, the minimum indigenous contented should beryllium 60%.
The Ministry of Defence “intends to procure quantity six Fast Patrol Boats and seeks information successful the procurement process from prospective bidders taxable to requirements”, the RFP says.
The FPBs are “essentially required to get capableness of tiny squad insertion for surveillance and reconnaissance, patrolling and domination of h2o bodies, deployment for involution cognition of high-speed crafts, successful enactment of nonstop enactment and operations successful shallow and muddy waters”, it further says.
According to the document, the vessel shall besides beryllium employed to transportation retired patrolling and surveillance of struggle zone.
The extremity idiosyncratic of the instrumentality is the Indian equipped forces, the RFP says.
“The authorities of India invites responses to this petition lone from Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM) oregon Authorised Vendors taxable to the information that successful lawsuit wherever the aforesaid instrumentality is offered by much than 1 of the aforementioned parties, penchant would beryllium fixed to the OEM,” it adds.
The past day for submission of pre-bid queries is November 11 portion the past day and clip for bid submission is “January 13, 2026, 1300 hrs”.
The RFP is being issued with “no fiscal commitment”, and the Ministry of Defence “reserves the close to retreat the RFP and alteration oregon alteration immoderate portion thereof oregon foreclose the procurement lawsuit astatine immoderate stage”, it says.
The authorities of India besides reserves the close to disqualify immoderate bidder should it beryllium truthful indispensable astatine immoderate signifier “on grounds of nationalist security”, according to the RFP.
