Ambika Negi

Results-driven legal and policy professional with over 4.5 years of specialised experience in public procurement, government advisory, statutory interpretation, and regulatory compliance. Track record includes engaging 10+ Central and State Government Ministries and Departments, securing ministerial corrigendums, reducing client bid disqualification rates by 15%, and enabling first-of-its-kind vendor access to the Government e-Marketplace (GeM). Adept at combining legal acumen with strategic stakeholder engagement to deliver tangible, measurable outcomes in high-stakes regulatory environments.

General Manager, Corporate Affairs - Dugong International Private Limited - New Delhi, India

(2021-11 - 2026-05)

Legal & Policy Executive — Government Affairs and Public Procurement

• Deployed across 20+ Central and State Government Ministries and Departments over 4.5 years, providing expert legal counsel on statutory interpretation, inter-departmental coordination, and high-stakes procurement policy matters.
• Served as principal legal interface with Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT), Ministry of MSME, Ministry of Commerce, Ministry of Expenditure, Ministry of Railways (RITES), Department of Military Affairs, and Department of Financial Services, ensuring compliance-driven representation across all mandates, primarily Rule 149, 144, 149, 170(i) of General Financial Rules, 2019, Department of Expenditure.
• Served as the principal legal interface with key Government institutions including DPIIT, Ministry of MSME, Ministry of Commerce, Ministry of Expenditure, and RITES (Autonomous Body, Ministry of Railways), ensuring robust legal representation, compliance oversight, and seamless communication across stakeholders.
• Raised formal legal Representations to Central Government Ministries and Departments — including the Department of Military Affairs, Department of Financial Services, Ministry of Railways, DPIIT, Ministry of MSME, Ministry of Commerce, and Ministry of Expenditure — on critical procurement-related issues, resulting in the official issuance of multiple Corrigendums directly attributable to these interventions.
• Achieved a 15% reduction in client bid and tender disqualifications through proactive legal review of procurement documents, technical compliance checks, and targeted representations to procuring authorities - measurably improving client participation rates in competitive Government tenders.
• Spearheaded the policy initiative for inclusion of BIS-CML (Bureau of Indian Standards - Conformity Mark Licence) criteria in the RITES vendor on boarding process on the GeM Portal, reducing average vendor on boarding time and enabling faster market entry for compliant domestic manufacturers.
• Challenged the Incident Management Policy on the scrapping of incident history post-resolution via appeal, escalating through formal channels to preserve procurement dispute accountability- issue acknowledged and referred for policy review by the relevant authority.
• Achieved first-of-its-kind vendor onboarding of MIPHI (JV of Micromax and Phison) on the GeM Portal for AI-powered SSDs - a category that did not exist on the portal prior to this engagement.
• Successfully lobbied for and secured the creation of a dedicated AI SSD product category on the GeM Portal through targeted policy engagement, establishing a regulatory precedent for next-generation technology segments in public procurement catalogues.
• Facilitated vendor access to Government procurement worth several crore rupees by resolving eligibility, classification, and compliance barriers that had previously prevented market entry for clients.
• Negotiated performance-related contracts with Government buyers, securing formal relaxations in procurement process requirements for MSMEs — directly enabling participation in tenders that would otherwise have been inaccessible due to stringent eligibility or performance security conditions.
• Advised on Make in India (MII) preference policies and local content mandates across all procurement assignments, achieving zero non-compliance findings on MII eligibility conditions across the tenure.
• Managed and negotiated Performance-Based Bank Guarantees submitted to multiple Central Government Departments, safeguarding vendor interests and ensuring contractual compliance through rigorous legal review of guarantee terms and enforcement triggers.
• Provided comprehensive legal guidance on both Central and State Government procurement policies, including eligibility conditions, dispute resolution mechanisms, and applicable statutory frameworks across diverse procurement mandates.
• Secured complete waiver of penal action for MSME sellers adversely impacted by the global semiconductor shortage and resultant price escalation - achieved through multi-stakeholder engagement spanning the Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology of India, Ministry of MSME and Hon'ble GeM CEO. Successfully argued force majeure and extraordinary market disruption grounds, resulting in no penalties, no blacklisting, and no encashment of bank guarantees for the affecte

B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) - Bachelor of Laws - Symbiosis Law School, Hyderabad (2015 - 2020)

Class XII (10+2) - CBSE - Kendriya Vidyalaya, Janakpuri (2014 - 2014)

Class X - CBSE - Kendriya Vidyalaya, Janakpuri (2012 - 2012)