PUBLIC PROCUREMENT ORDER 2017- REVISION Provisions laid down in public procurement order 2017 - revision as circulated by ministry of commerce and industry vide their letter dated.19.07.2024 (as per Annexure A- 5.7 of IBD attached with this tender) shall be applicable. Clause 3(a) of the said order shall be applicable in this tender. Minimum local content for purchase preference shall be 50%. As per this policy only 'class-I local suppliers' is eligible to bid. Public procurement of this item is restricted to Class I local suppliers only and the vendors who do not qualify to the Class I local suppliers should not quote in the tender as their offers shall not be considered for any ordering. In case any vendor who does not qualify to a Class I local supplier for the tendered item participates, it does so at it's own risk and cost and Railways shall not be liable for any loss or damages caused to the vendor. The bidder shall give self-certification for local content in the quoted item (Goods/Works/Services) at the time of tendering under the relevant para of commercial compliance in NIT/Tender document. However, at the time of execution of the project, for all contracts above INR 10 crores, the contractor/supplier shall be required to give local content certification duly certified by cost/chartered accountant in practice in case of supplier other than company (or certified by statutory auditor/cost auditor of the company, in case of Companies) after issue of the purchase order and before submission of the first bill. The supplier will submit the relevant certificate to PLW s purchase office in the prescribed proforma attached as Annexure A-5.8 of PLW s IBD document. After verification & confirmation of the local content from the above said certificate, a letter will be issued by the PLW s purchase office, in form of the Modification Advice (MA) to the Purchase Order, duly mentioning the Class of the vendor under MII policy. The above mentioned Modification Advice shall be attached by the contractor/supplier along with the first bill for claiming the payment, in case the contractor/supplier does not meet the stipulated local content requirement and the category of the supplier changes from Class-l to Class- II/Non-local or from Class-II to Non local, a penalty up to 10% of the contract value may be imposed. However, contract once awarded shall not be terminated on this account.