Recently, the Department of Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) issued a memorandum clarifying the Public Procurement Preference to Make in India Order (Memorandum). According to the Memorandum, suppliers offering ‘imported’ content cannot include after-sales service, support, training, installation, etc. as local value addition. This has added further complexity to the procurement of software products and services. The nature of software products and services makes it difficult to determine local content given the transnational supply chains and diversified nature of the software development and deployment processes.