Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to communication systems, and more particularly, to system information acquisition over bandwidth parts (BWPs) in communications system operating according to new radio (NR) technologies. In an exemplary method, a user equipment (UE) receives system information (SI) via a transmission in a downlink (DL) bandwidth part (BWP) of a system bandwidth and transmits, to a serving base station (BS) and in response to receiving the SI, an indication that the UE has completed SI acquisition.