Short listing of two Bidders. 9.7.1. Applicability of Preference to Make in India, Order 2017 (PPP-MII Order) Guidelines on Public Procurement (Preference to Make in India), Order 2017 (PPP- MII Order and revision thereto will be applicable for this RFP and allotment will be done in terms of said Order as under: uncompressed, unfiltered and unshared Internet Bandwidth with DDoS Protection 1 Among all qualified bids, the lowest bid will be termed as L1. If L1 is ‘Class- I local supplier’, the contract for DC and DR links will be awarded to L1. 2 Thereafter, the second lowest bidder among the ‘Class-I local supplier’, will be invited to match the L1 price for second link at DC and DR and contract shall be awarded to such ‘Class-I local supplier’ subject to matching the L1 price. In case such second lowest eligible ‘Class-I local supplier’ fails to match the L1 price, the next higher ‘Class-I local supplier’ within the margin of purchase preference shall be invited to match the L1 price for second link at DC and DR and so on, and contract shall be awarded accordingly. 3 In case, there are no Class-I local suppliers within the purchase preference, then for second link at DC and DR, the other qualified bidder starting from shall be invited to match the price of L-1 bidder, subject to preference as per PPP-MII order. For the purpose of Preference to Make in India, Order 2017 (PPP-MII Order) and revision thereto: “Local content” means the amount of value added in India which shall, unless otherwise prescribed by the Nodal Ministry, be the total value of the item procured (excluding net domestic indirect taxes) minus the value of imported content in the item (including all customs duties) as a proportion of the total value, in percent. “Class-I local supplier” means a supplier or service provider whose product or service offered for procurement meets the minimum local content as prescribed for ‘Class-I local supplier’ hereunder “Class-II local supplier” means a supplier or service provider whose product or service offered for procurement meets the minimum local content as prescribed for ‘Class-II local supplier’ hereunder. Class-II local supplier shall not get any purchase preference under this RFP. “Non- local supplier” means a supplier or service provider whose product or service offered for procurement has ‘local content’ less than that prescribed for ‘Class-II local supplier’ under this RFP. “Minimum Local content” for the purpose of this RFP, the ‘local content’ requirement to categorize ...
