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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, most recently effective 16 September 2020), issued under Rule 153(iii) of the General Financial Rules 2017. BMRCL, a Karnataka/central-government joint-venture public-sector undertaking, applies the Order's standing local-content preference mechanism to its own procurement: where nodal-ministry-declared local capacity exists, Class-I local suppliers (minimum local-content threshold, ordinarily paired with a purchase-preference margin in bid evaluation) receive an evaluation advantage over other bidders regardless of tender value.
This filing records one instance of that standing order applied to a specific, quantified tender: RFP BMRCL/Phase-3/P3/Double Decker/2026/145, covering construction of elevated structures (metro viaduct, rail-cum- road flyover, and stations) across roughly 6.652 km of the Bangalore Metro Phase 3 double-decker corridor, with a disclosed contract value of INR 1,415.65 crore. This is India's first integrated double-decker metro/road corridor and the largest single package in the current BMRCL Phase 3 civil-works tranche identified to date. The contract value is independently corroborated by press reporting on BMRCL's Phase 3 civil-tender tranche (elevated-structures package, ~6.652 km, Rs. 1,415.65 Cr), separate from GTA's account-gated tender detail.
Severity is set low-moderate (2) and severity_basis: mixed — the contract value is quantified and disclosed, but the specific local-content percentage threshold applied to the Class-I designation for this tender was not independently confirmed. This is a routine application of a standing central-government procurement policy, not a new trade barrier — it shifts bid-evaluation weighting toward Class-I local suppliers without outright excluding foreign bidders.
bidding into BMRCL's Phase 3 double-decker package face a structural scoring disadvantage relative to Class-I local suppliers on a contract sized at roughly USD 165-170 million.
infrastructure tenders carrying the same Preference-to-Make-in-India margin (see the existing register cluster of NHAI/Railways/BMRCL/DVC filings) — individually routine, but this instance is among the larger disclosed contract values in that cluster and coincides with India's flagship double-decker metro/road corridor build-out.
designation for this specific tender was not independently confirmed against the full RFP/NIT document (GTA's detailed tender scope sits behind an account-gated view).
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