Collaborative R&D
Bharat Electronics Limited is India’s foremost Defence Electronics Company. A Navratna PSU under the Ministry of Defence, it has nine different units (hyperlink: R&D centres of BEL) spread over the country and boasts of over 350 different products in various (hyperlink: Areas of R&D Activity). BEL is committed to keeping its portfolio of products technologically competitive and invests substantial resources in R&D for the development of new products and technologies and continual upgrading of existing products.
BEL is looking to further augment its R&D and product design efforts particularly through collaborative R&D and for this it wishes to considerably enhance its ties with companies, R&D Institutions, Academia and Experts/Consultants in different technology domains. BEL seeks Expression of Interest from Companies (including MSMEs and Start-ups) and R&D Institutions (comprising Academia, Research Institutes, R&D organizations and Companies working in niche technologies) in India and abroad and Experts/Consultants working independently or associated with R&D Institutions and having requisite expertise for collaborative R&D/Contract Research/Product and Subsystem development programs in the areas of BEL’s operations.
So far we have empanelled more than 320 partners towards collaborative R&D which includes more than 40 R&D Partners, more than 200 Design Service Providers, 40 Consultants and 40 Production Service Providers.
Ways of Collaborative R&D to address the Disciplines/Areas mentioned above:
The collaborative R&D could be in the form of joint R&D work on assignment basis/ long term basis through MoUs/long term tie ups; technical consultancy for specific projects; design vetting; design verification; design buying; testing; characterization; specialized engineering software codes; modelling; expert guidance on annual retainership basis, etc.
Terms and Conditions:
- Empanelment will be based on criteria such as
- Qualifications, demonstrated experience, patents granted, papers published, awards received and number of projects completed in the relevant field, etc. for individual experts/consultants and
- Type of institution, number of years of operation, present manpower expertise available, papers published, patents granted, number of projects/processes licensed and commercialized, total number of projects completed in the relevant field, etc. for R&D institutions and Companies.
- BEL could seek further information or details before empanelment
- BEL reserves the sole right for empanelment.
- The Empanelment facilitates collaborative working for R&D Projects. Whenever a need for R&D work in a particular area/discipline will arise, BEL will contact the R&D institutions/Experts/Consultants/Companies who have expertise in that area.
- A Non-Disclosure Agreement(NDA), if required, will be signed with the expert/consultant/institution whenever needed.
- Specific Agreement spelling out the details such as scope of work, time frame, remuneration, deliverables, ownership of IPRs etc., will be entered into with the expert/consultant/institution for each specific R&D project
- A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)/ Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) could be entered into with an R&D institution/ Company on long term basis, specifying areas that could also be long term contracts with pre-agreed terms and conditions.
Interested Companies, R&D Institutions/Individual Consultants are requested to download “Response Format for R&D Institution Empanelment” (A-1) or “Response Format for Individual Consultant Empanelment” (A-2) and submit the completed format, together with other required documents, by email or post, to:
Mr. Hari Kumar R
Head (Technology Planning)
Bharat Electronics Limited
Registered & Corporate Office
Outer Ring Road, Nagavara
Bangalore –560 045
Email: cotp[at]bel[dot]co[dot]in