Directorate of Purchase & Stores (DPS) endeavours to make the materials management process efficient, transparent, time bound, user friendly to its stake holders and facilitate meeting the vision of the Department for development of nuclear power technology and increasing application of Radiation Technology.

The objective of DPS as a service organization of Department of Atomic Energy, a multi-disciplinary complex organization with various R&D and Industrial Units, is to support the constituent Units of the Department by procuring equipments and materials of right quantity and right quality at right price and right time from the right source and storing them following the right procedure adhering to the Government rules and regulations and guidelines.

DPS is vested with the responsibility of effecting procurement for various constituent units of Department of Atomic Energy which primarily include R&D units namely Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR), Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre (VECC), Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology (RRCAT), Atomic Minerals Directorate for Exploration and Research (AMDE&R), Global Centre for Nuclear Energy Partnership (GCNEP) and Industrial units namely Nuclear Fuel Complex (NFC), Heavy Water Board (HWB) and Board of Radiation & Isotope Technology (BRIT).

DPS comprises four distinct cadres, i.e., Stores, Purchase, Administration and Accounts . It is not only responsible for developing an efficient procurement system, but also is entrusted with the handling of diverse stores activities including logistics arrangements. A few of them are highlighted as under:

• ensure availability of common stock items with an optimum inventory holding.
• ensure quality and quantity of supplies received.
• help accounts in releasing payment of suppliers in time.
• ensure safe and secured storage of service stores for the units with proper preservation.
• to ensure timely clearance of consignments received from road, rail, sea, air etc.
• physical distribution of consignments to various parts of the country.
• ensure proper packing and transportation for consignments meant for export.
• identifying slow moving, obsolete and unserviceable stores.
• to dispose of surplus, obsolete and unserviceable stores and scrap by following public policy especially with regards to public safety and environmental concern.
  
  

• Issues concerning user community
   - to arrange procurement of quality goods
   - to endeavour to arrange supplies within the time  frames     required and resolve bottlenecks if any.
   - to publish tender notices of all major items for giving wide     publicity.