WRIT - C No. 605 of 2025 at Allahabad

Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:34318-DB Reserved AFR Court No. - 29 Case :- WRIT - C No. - 605 of 2025 Petitioner :- Thoughtsol Infotech Private Limited Respondent :- Union Of India And 2 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Sushant Counsel for Respondent :- Archana Singh, Naman Agarwal, Varad Nath, Vivek Kumar Singh,A.S.G.I. Hon'ble Ashwani Kumar Mishra,J. Hon'ble Vipin Chandra Dixit,J. (Delivered By: Hon'ble Ashwani Kumar Mishra,J.) 1. Award of contract for hiring of cloud services for up- gradation of National Data Repository, by the Directorate General of Hydrocarbons, in favour of third respondent company, notwithstanding the lowest bid of petitioner, is the subject matter of challenge in this petition. The petitioner submits that preferential treatment meted out to the third respondent on account of its status as registered Micro & Small Enterprise (in short ‘MSE’), although substantial part of the contract is to be performed by Non-MSE i.e. Amazon Web Services (in short ‘AWS’) is in teeth of the applicable MSME policy and its objectives and thus wholly irrational and arbitrary. 2. Directorate General of Hydrocarbons (hereinafter referred to as ‘DGH’) came to be established unde