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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 mandates a bid-evaluation preference margin (ordinarily a 20% purchase-preference margin over a 50% minimum local-content threshold for "Class-I local supplier" status) across central-government procurement, including public-sector undertakings such as AAI.
This filing records that standing order applied to an AAI tender for the new domestic terminal building at Varanasi (Lal Bahadur Shastri International) Airport, announced 21 August 2025, tender ID 2025_AAI_245611_1, project value INR 572.36 crore. Consistent with the companion NHAI/NHIDCL/UPMRC/BMRCL localisation-preference filings on this register, the exact preference-margin rate applied and the full NIT/RFP text sit behind GTA's account-gated detail view and were not independently confirmed on AAI's e-procurement portal within the available search budget.
Severity is set low (2), consistent with the companion infrastructure-tender filings: this is a routine, standing domestic-preference policy applied within a single airport-terminal procurement, not a new trade barrier — it shifts bid-evaluation weighting toward Class-I local suppliers rather than excluding foreign bidders outright.
bidding into AAI's airport-terminal expansion pipeline face the same structural scoring disadvantage documented across NHAI/NHIDCL/UPMRC/BMRCL tenders elsewhere on this register.
carrying the same standing preference margin under the Atmanirbhar Bharat procurement posture to civil aviation infrastructure, adding to the highway- and metro-rail-dominated set already filed.
located on AAI's e-tender portal or in public reporting; GTA's full detail sits behind an account-gated view.
aviation-specific equipment carve-outs was not confirmed against a full NIT/RFP document.