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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), which mandates a bid-evaluation preference margin for "Class-I local supplier" bidders across central-government and PSU procurement. NHPC Limited — a Government of India Navratna enterprise — applied that standing order to NIT No. 2026_NHPC_894115_1, a tender for power-evacuation infrastructure (three 33/400 kV pooling substations) serving the 1200 MW Jalaun Solar Park, developed by Bundelkhand Saur Urja Limited (BSUL), an NHPC-UPNEDA joint venture in Uttar Pradesh. GTA values the contract at INR 614.21 crore.
This is the same recurring class of action as the large batch of NHAI/NHIDCL/state-PWD/PSU localisation-preference filings already in the register, applied here to renewable-energy grid-infrastructure procurement rather than roads or rail. Severity is set low (2), consistent with the companion filings: it is a routine, standing domestic-preference policy applied within a single infrastructure contract, not a new trade barrier, and does not exclude foreign bidders outright.
bidding into NHPC's renewable-energy grid-infrastructure tenders face a structural scoring disadvantage relative to Class-I local suppliers, consistent with India's Atmanirbhar Bharat procurement posture extended into the solar-power evacuation build-out.
public-procurement localisation actions — individually low severity, but cumulatively indicative of how systematically India applies domestic preference across its renewable-energy infrastructure pipeline (India Semiconductor Mission, NHAI roads, metro rail, and now solar-park grid evacuation).
designation for this specific tender was not independently confirmed against the full NIT bid document.
three-substation scope or a sub-package was not independently reconciled against NHPC's own cost estimate (not published on the public tender_detail page).