Reports noted that the Ministry of Defence (MoD) is “abandoning competitive bid” to award a Rs. 10,000 crore contract to develop Tactical Communication System (TCS) for the Army. The move could sideline six private sector companies - Wipro, Mahindra Defence Systems, Tata Power, L&T, Rolta and HCL, who were earlier vetted to participate in the contract. The state-owned Bharat Electronics Ltd (BEL) is most likely to get the contract. The TCS will be a fully mobile network which will allow the Army to “safely communicate and transfer data.”1

• 1. Ajai Shukla, ‘MoD sidelines pvt sector in crucial defence project’, The Business Standard, March 3, 2010 at http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/mod-sidelines-pvt-sector-in-...