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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" bidders across central-government procurement, including NHAI infrastructure contracts. This filing records one instance of that standing order applied to a specific tender: an NHAI Request for Proposal for a road-construction contract in Telangana state, valued by GTA at INR 1,979.11 crore, targeting firm-specific preferences in civil-engineering, general-construction, and supporting-services categories. GTA's MAST classification is "M: Government procurement restrictions," inward-affecting, with national-level implementation despite the state-level tender scope. GTA's underlying description, tender/RFP reference, and affected trading-partner list sit behind an account-gated view; the contract value and issuing agency were confirmed from the public state-act summary page.
Severity is set low (2) and severity_basis: quant given the disclosed contract value (INR 1,979.11 crore / ~USD 238m), consistent with the companion NHAI/NHIDCL localisation-preference filings from the same GTA batch: this is a routine, standing domestic-preference policy applied within a single road-construction contract, not a new trade barrier. It shifts bid-evaluation weighting toward Class-I local suppliers without outright excluding foreign bidders. This is the companion tender to the already-filed 2025-10-01-india-nhai-telangana-road-inr1348cr-localisation-preference (same GTA batch, same state, larger contract value), which had flagged this second Telangana tender (state-act 95084) as queued for filing.
contractors bidding into this second NHAI Telangana tender face the same structural bid-evaluation disadvantage relative to Class-I local suppliers as the companion INR 1,348.09-crore Telangana filing, consistent with India's Atmanirbhar Bharat procurement posture.
Jharkhand, Punjab, Haryana, Tamil Nadu road tenders and the WCL Dhoptala mine tender), this confirms the domestic-preference margin is applied systematically and at scale across India's national highway and infrastructure tendering pipeline, not as an isolated instance.
number) was not independently confirmed — GTA's affected-sector and affected-partner detail sit behind an account-gated view. Confirm against NHAI's e-procurement portal if higher precision is needed.
designation for this specific tender was not independently confirmed against the full RFP document.