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The legal instrument is the same standing order underlying the companion NHAI/NHIDCL filings on this register: 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, with a 20-50% band for "Class-II") across central- and state-linked procurement, including metro-rail joint-venture corporations like UPMRC (a 50:50 Government of India / Government of Uttar Pradesh JV).
This filing records that standing order applied to Notice Inviting Tender UPMRC/LKCC(02)-02/Vol-1/NIT, issued 1 January 2026, covering design and construction of a ~4.6 km elevated main-line viaduct from Thakurganj to Vasantkunj metro stations (plus a 740m ramp to the Vasantkunj depot) and five elevated stations, on Lucknow Metro Line-2's East-West Corridor — part of the Phase 1B expansion approved by the central government in August 2025 (full Phase 1B project cost ~INR 5,801 crore). UPMRC's own estimate for this package is INR 492.22 crore; pre-bid meeting was scheduled for 12 January 2026 and bid submission for 2 February 2026, with a 30-month construction period.
Global Trade Alert records two distinct intervention types against the same state act (95974) — "public procurement localisation" (a local-content mandate) and "public procurement preference margin" (the bid-evaluation weighting) — reflecting the two operative limbs of the DPIIT order (minimum local-content threshold plus purchase-preference margin). Consistent with how the companion NHAI/NHIDCL road-tender actions on this register consolidate both limbs into one filing, this action does the same rather than splitting into duplicate entries.
Severity is set low (2), consistent with the companion NHAI/NHIDCL filings: this is a routine, standing domestic-preference policy applied within a single infrastructure procurement, not a new trade barrier — it shifts bid-evaluation weighting toward Class-I/Class-II local suppliers rather than excluding foreign bidders outright.
bidding into Indian metro-rail civil packages face the same structural scoring disadvantage documented across NHAI/NHIDCL national-highway tenders, confirming the Preference-to-Make-in-India margin is applied uniformly across India's urban-rail and highway infrastructure pipelines, not just roads.
tenders (NHAI, NHIDCL, UPMRC) carrying the same standing preference margin — individually low severity, cumulatively indicative of the scale of India's Atmanirbhar Bharat procurement posture across its metro-rail build-out (Lucknow, Kanpur, Agra under UPMRC alone).
applied to this specific package were not confirmed in the public tender summaries available (UPMRC's own tender portal blocked automated access); the DPIIT order's default civil-works thresholds (50% Class-I / 20-50% Class-II, 20% margin) should be checked against the full NIT/RFP PDF on upmetrorail.com if higher precision is needed.
any distinct scope beyond the preference-margin mechanism described here.