OBS_VALUE: Rule 153 of the General Financial Rules (2017) provides that [t]he Central Government may, by notification, provide for mandatory procurement of any goods or services from any category of bidders, or provide for preference to bidders on the grounds of promotion of locally manufactured goods or locally provided services. Public Procurement (Preference to Make in India) Order 2017  introduced a purchase preference for goods and services having higher value of local content. Where the relevant authority has communicated sufficiency of local capacity and competition, only local suppliers are eligible to bid irrespective of the purchase value. The suppliers have been categorized into (a) class-I local suppliers (local content equal to or more than 50%); (b) class-II local suppliers (local content is more than 20% but less than 50%); and (c) non-local suppliers, whose goods, services or works offered for procurement have local content less than or equal to 20%. Where the relevant ministry or department has communicated sufficiency of local capacity and competition, only class-I local suppliers are eligible to bid irrespective of the purchase value. Only class-I and class-II local suppliers are eligible to bid in procurements where the estimated value of purchases is less than INR 200 crores. Non-local suppliers are eligible to bid along with class-I and class-II local suppliers in bids where the procurement value is above INR 200 crores (with the exception of global tender with procurement value less than INR 200 crores that had been expressly approved by the relevant authority). 