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The legal instrument is the same standing DPIIT Public Procurement (Preference to Make in India) Order, 2017 (as amended, most recently effective 16 September 2020), issued under Rule 153(iii) of the General Financial Rules 2017, that underlies the broader family of Indian localisation-preference filings in this register (e.g. [[2025-08-21-india-dvc-coal-lifting-localisation-preference]], [[2025-08-20-india-dvc-konar-solar-pooling-station-localisation-preference]]). Central PSUs — here DVC, a Ministry of Power statutory corporation generating and distributing power across the Damodar Valley region of West Bengal and Jharkhand — must align tender conditions with the Order; where a nodal ministry has declared sufficient local capacity in a category, only Class-I local suppliers (minimum local-content threshold, typically paired with a purchase-preference margin of up to 20%) are eligible or favoured regardless of tender value. This filing records one further instance of that standing order applied to a specific tender: the survey, design, and replacement of existing conductors with high-temperature low-sag (HTLS) conductors on DVC's 132kV D/C transmission lines — a grid-capacity-upgrade procurement, distinguishing it from the road/rail/tunnel civil-works tenders and the solar/BESS grid-connection tender that dominate the wider DVC/NHAI/MoRTH filing family. GTA's underlying bid documents and contract value sit behind an account-gated view; only the implementing agency, tender reference, and measure category were confirmed independently.
Severity is set low (2), consistent with the wider batch of DVC/NHAI/MoRTH localisation-preference filings from the same GTA cadence: this is a routine, standing domestic-preference policy applied within a single infrastructure tender, not a new trade barrier. It shifts bid-evaluation weighting toward Class-I local suppliers without outright excluding foreign bidders.
bidding into DVC's transmission-line upgrade tender face the same structural bid-evaluation disadvantage relative to Class-I local suppliers as the wider batch of NHAI/MoRTH/DVC localisation-preference tenders already in the register.
grid-modernisation/transmission-capacity-upgrade procurement (HTLS conductor replacement), alongside the civil-works and renewable-energy grid-connection categories already documented for DVC.
account-gated); not material to the qualitative severity call here.
e-procurement portal; not independently retrieved.