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The legal instrument is the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade's (DPIIT) Public Procurement (Preference to Make in India) Order, 2017 (as amended, Order No. P-45021/2/2017-B.E.-II), which requires government purchasers to give a bid-evaluation margin to suppliers meeting a minimum local-content threshold ("Class-I local supplier") in tenders above specified value thresholds. NICDIT Zaheerabad Industrial Smart City Limited — a joint SPV between the Telangana State Industrial Infrastructure Corporation (TGIIC) and the central National Industrial Corridor Development and Implementation Trust (NICDIT) — applied this standing order to an infrastructure works tender for the Zaheerabad node of the Hyderabad-Nagpur Industrial Corridor, published 28 July 2025 with a Global Trade Alert-assessed value of INR 1,206 crore. This is one of a large, recurring series of Indian public-sector tenders (NHAI, NHPC, railways, metro corporations, and now industrial-corridor SPVs) carrying the same localisation mechanism — the underlying instrument is the 2017 order itself, not a standalone policy action.
contractors bidding on this package face a structural bid-evaluation disadvantage versus Indian Class-I suppliers unless they meet the local-content threshold or partner with a qualifying domestic entity.
procurement into the newer industrial-corridor SPV structures created under the National Industrial Corridor Development Programme — suggesting the mechanism is now a default clause across all GoI-linked infrastructure development vehicles, not just legacy agencies like NHAI.
tender (the 2017 order sets category-specific thresholds; NICZISCL's tender document itself is hosted on NICDC's portal, api.nicdc.in, and is not fully machine-readable for automated extraction).
(reported elsewhere at ~INR 2,369 crore for Phase I) relative to this specific INR 1,206 crore infrastructure-works package.