@Chinmoy Since you seem to be the resident DFI bureaucrat over here.. can you list all the phases in the approval process from start to finish of a plane starting from early pre design phases to CCS approvals and certifications etc preferably in the order of implementation? It's getting really frustrating to read that things are getting approved routinely but no signed deal will be in sight even after a decade. You know what i'm talking about.
It will help immensely for all the forum members to be realistic on what to expect. It doesn't have to be 100% accurate.. revisions can be done in the future by anyone based on the knowledge acquired at that time based on your template.
You can start by Rev20200815v1
Lots of thanks if you are able to make some time for this nasty stuff. Ignore this if this is too time consuming.
Actually its too simple if you understand the hierarchy. Since you are talking of design aspect, lets just take a peculiar design scenario in our case.
The first step of any design procedure is PSQR. Be it for Army, AF or Navy, at first a PSQR would be issued. Sometimes its the designing authority who comes up with a project, but since its Tejas thread, lets keep it for a jet only. Here in this case, its the customer who would first come up with a plan and PSQR would be released based on the plan.
Now designing starts based on the PSQR and this PSQR generally keeps on changing to cater the need of developer or user. Sometimes developer changes it, sometimes user changes it. When all the points of PSQR gets ticked off, the ASQR is issued. Now remember that ASQR is generally static and can't be changed. It is this process which consumes most of the time. Even if PSQR gets fully ticked, one can't be sure enough of fulfilling the ASQR need.
After this comes the process of TD. After a TD is realized, then again it goes through the process of ASQR because by this time the developers and users generally come to know what to expect from the platform. It is the time when politics is played at the highest level from both sides. Remember that till now user is not committing nor doing any funding for the project. Only after the TD, if everything settles down, LSPs are ordered and it is during this time that user provide fund for those specific numbers.
After the LSPs, RFP gets issued and then subsequently RFI is issued and based on that, the deal gets signed all in good day. This is simple design to order sequence in between user and developer. In between this, comes the political part. Lets have a quick look into that.
Before any PSQR is issued, the user would create a Requirement application (forgot the correct term) and send it to CCS. The CCS would study it and based on it an AON is issued. This means a go ahead for the user to issue PSQR.
Now based on PSQR, the development authority would issue a PR and send it to same CCS for approval. Based on this PR fund is issued to the developers. Now this PR gets updated from time to time during the developmental process and the funding also goes on increasing depending on it. Now remember that most of the projects gets shelved during this process itself.
After a successful completion of TD and getting an order from user for LSP, the initial fund for the production is released from MoD with CCS approval. Although depending on project, the LSP could be funded initially by developer alone or by user.
Now based on TD and LSP performance, a formal request of acquisition is send by user to DAC. In this, the user quote the numbers and fund required for acquisition. Based on that RFP is issued and it goes to DAC for approval. Now something to look out for in this process is, when user quote a price against a specific number, it is not just for those numbers but for the whole ecosystem which they need to develop around those. So price negotiation in between user and developer is a norm during this process.
Once DAC approves RFP, the fund for the acquisition is released. It doesn't mean that IAF gets the fund, but the proposed fund is sealed for the project and can't be issued for any other project. After this RFI is issued and when it gets passed, the deal is signed. But even during this process the deal could be stalled if RFI is not found to be satisfactory. To cut this off, RFP and RFI is generally issued in conjecture.
Hope it fulfills your query.
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