1) India declares a contest for a new armament
2) Only companies that have not been black listed for corruption need apply (more on that later)
3) Companies that enter have to submit their weapon to years of testing by a vast and impenetrable bureaucracy
4) During that testing local companies/factories usually state owned will complain and lobby that they could produce a local solution for the Indian government and MOD
5) To get through the impenetrable bureaucracy said bidding companies are forced to employ local officials on a vastly inflated wage to help advise on how best to bid
6) Shortlisted companies will be require to offer significant offset with 80, 90 and even 100% being the required level
7) Local production as part of the deal will be required
8) Companies bidding will not be able to chose their local partners or set up new facilities to produce weapons system
9) Only old state run companies/factories with their own vast bureaucracies will be allowed by the Indian MOD to be local production partners
10) These will be the same companies/factories as those in point 4)
11) To win contract bidding companies must agree to the license production program to be managed by the Indian based companies/factories
12) Yet those bidding companies must also agree to 100% financial liability if the program overruns due to poor local management
13) Local companies/factories will continue to complain even when selected as the final partner and continue to offer local solutions
14) Once a bidding company has won the contract then local Indian companies/factories will drag their feet
15) It will then be revealed that the local advisers in point 5) that the bidding companies were forced to employ were paying bribes to MOD/factory/military officials
16) Contract is immediately cancelled with that company and all its sub divisions banned from bidding in the future
17) Indian government will go for local solution
18) That will go massively over budget and behind schedule
19) Indian MOD will look at new bidding process for off the shelf solution
20) Points 1) to 19) happen all over again
21) Eventually Indian PM will go with military to a common and trusted supplier like Russia or Israel and buy a solution off the shelf via a government to government deal thus bypassing the whole bureaucratic mess that is Indian defence procurement
22) Rince and repeat!