Local content is now a procurement condition, not a preference.
The Local Content and Government Procurement Authority has expanded its Mandatory List of National Products beyond 1,500 items across 16 sectors, moving toward a 2,000-item target, and since February 2026 applies minimum local content percentages at enterprise level as a condition of benefiting from that list. State-owned companies are required to track local content and prefer national products.
Saudi Made is a market position, not a slogan.
The path to a local content position
In competitive tenders where bidders are technically comparable, local content decides the outcome. In a growing number of categories, an imported product is not disadvantaged — it is ineligible.
Manufacturing with Future AI puts Saudi labour, Saudi assets and Saudi value addition into your product’s cost structure.
items on the LCGPA Mandatory List of National Products
sectors covered by the Mandatory List
item target the List is moving toward
Why it holds up under evaluation
Origin
Products assembled, tested and released from a Saudi industrial facility, carrying Saudi origin documentation.
Local value addition
Saudi labour, Saudi assets and Saudi operating expenditure inside the product's cost structure.
Supply chain resilience
Capacity not subject to international shipping cycles, port congestion or trade policy shifts.
Support within the Kingdom
Repair, warranty and field engineering executed locally, itself a scored evaluation criterion.
How manufacturing electronics in Sudair supports the Kingdom’s national direction, not just a single customer’s bill of materials.
Economic diversification
Every board assembled in Sudair is industrial output that previously sat outside the Kingdom.
Local content and industrial capability
Building domestic capacity in a category where the Kingdom has been import-dependent.
Jobs and skills
Assembly, test engineering, process engineering and quality management create technical careers for Saudi nationals.
Enabling the national AI agenda
2026 is the Year of Artificial Intelligence. PwC projects AI will contribute approximately USD 135 billion to the Saudi economy by 2030.
Military and security localisation
We operate an AS9100D-based quality system with the traceability and configuration control such programmes demand.
Export and regional reach
Sudair gives access to Gulf, Levant, North African and East African markets from a single production base.
Questions
Local content, answered
What counts as local content in electronics manufacturing?+
Local content is measured across Saudi labour, Saudi assets and Saudi operating expenditure inside a product's cost structure — not simply where a component was purchased.
Does assembly in Saudi Arabia qualify a product as Saudi Made?+
Products assembled, tested and released from a Saudi industrial facility carry Saudi origin documentation, which is the basis for a local content position.
Can Future AI provide local content documentation for our bid?+
Yes — origin documentation is part of what we provide when we manufacture your product from Sudair Industrial City.
What is the Mandatory List of National Products?+
A list maintained by the Local Content and Government Procurement Authority, now beyond 1,500 items across 16 sectors and moving toward a 2,000-item target, against which state-owned companies are required to track local content and prefer national products.