Additional criteria for MRT project?

Excerpts from an article in The Malaysian Insider on additional criteria for MRT project: 

- start of excerpt - ...said that Prasarana had on March 30 this year come out with additional criteria for the project, ...The criteria, according to ... were:

• contractors taking part in the project tender are forbidden from forming joint ventures or consortium;

• companies of contractors are forbidden from forming any joint ventures with foreign companies in the tender of the project;

•The formation of a consortium of two or more companies is strictly forbidden; -end of excerpt-