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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 (ref. MPDIV-2101...) for a road-construction project in Madhya Pradesh state, valued by GTA at INR 1,662.93 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 beyond the tender reference and affected-partner list sits behind an account-gated view; the contract value, issuing agency, and tender reference prefix were confirmed from the public state-act summary page.
Severity is set low (2) and severity_basis: quant given the disclosed contract value (INR 1,662.93 crore / ~USD 190m), consistent with the large batch of companion NHAI/MoRTH localisation-preference filings already in the register (Maharashtra, Telangana, Gujarat, Jharkhand, Punjab, Tamil Nadu, two prior Madhya Pradesh tenders): 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.
contractors bidding into this NHAI Madhya Pradesh tender face the same structural bid-evaluation disadvantage relative to Class-I local suppliers as the other Madhya Pradesh NHAI filings already in the register (2025-10-08-india-nhai-madhya-pradesh-mp-division-road-inr1023cr-localisation-preference, ...-inr952cr-..., and the unnumbered companion filing).
Jharkhand, Punjab, Haryana, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan road tenders), this confirms the domestic-preference margin is applied systematically and at scale across India's national highway tendering pipeline, not as an isolated instance.
reference number beyond "MPDIV-2101...") 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.