According to Public Procurement Act, 2007 (Section 34-3), there are margins of preference which apply only to tenders under international competitive bidding. There is a local content margin of preference, which varies from project to project, and it can go up to 15%. In addition, Nigeria offers a preference to majority Nigerian-owned companies as long as their price is within 15% of a majority foreign-owned company. Moreover, Section 106 of the Public Procurement Regulations for goods and works (2007) states that "in the case of International Competitive Bidding (ICB), when comparing bids from foreign contractors or suppliers with national bidders, procuring entities may grant a margin of preference to domestic contractors, and suppliers for goods manufactured in Nigeria. The Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP) will from time to time set the margins of preference to be granted. Bid documents may provide a domestic preference of 15% of the delivered price for goods and 7.5% for works".

It is reported that Nigeria only requires government entities to engage in competitive bidding for any procurement worth more than ₦2.5 million (approx. USD 6,500), while only majority Nigerian-owned companies may bid on procurements between ₦2.5 million (approx. USD 6,500) and ₦100 million (approx. USD 260,000) for goods and up to ₦1 billion (approx. USD 2.6 million) for services and works. Above those thresholds, both majority foreign-owned and majority Nigerian-owned companies may engage in competitive bidding. However, such requirement is not found in regulatory texts.

In February 2018, Executive Order 5 added restrictions and obligations for public procurement related to science, engineering, and technology. The order provides restrictions in the following situations: where expertise is lacking in the country, the procuring entities shall give preference to foreign companies or firms with demonstrable and verifiable plans for indigenous capacity development, prior to the award of such contracts; ministries, departments and agencies shall engage an indigenous professional in the planning, design, and execution of national security projects and considerations shall be given to a foreign professional, where it is certified by the appropriate authority that such expertise is not available in Nigeria.

The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) under the supervision of the Federal Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy in line with its enabling law (NITDA Act, 2007) issued the the Guidelines for Nigeria Content in ICT in 2013. The guidelines apply to state entities as well as private enterprises and individuals. One of the requirements in Section 10.4 (1-2) is that Ministries and other government entities source and procure software from only local and indigenous software development companies. If the capacity for developing such software does not exist locally, a Nigerian company should provide the procurement, installation, and support of the software.

Nigeria is not a signatory of the 1996 World Trade Organization (WTO) Information Technology Agreement (ITA) nor the 2015 expansion (ITA II).

Niger has not adopted national legislation based on or influenced by the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) Model Law on Electronic Signatures.

Niger has not adopted national legislation based on or influenced by the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) Model Law on Electronic Commerce.

Law No. 2015-24 and Law No. 2019-50 provide a comprehensive framework for consumer protection that also applies to online transactions.

Niger has not signed the United Nations (UN) Convention on the Use of Electronic Communications.

Niger does not implement any de minimis threshold, which is the minimum value of goods below which customs do not charge duties.

According to Art. 33 of the Law No. 2018-45, equipment intended to be connected to an electronic communications network open to the public and radio equipment must be assessed for conformity with the essential requirements by the regulatory authority. For this purpose, documents and information are normally required to demonstrate the conformity of such equipment.
Testing may be required:
- if the type approval certificate of the country of origin, or any other document replacing it, does not correspond to the equipment;
- if it is not clear from the documents submitted that the equipment complies with the essential requirements;
- if there is reason to believe that the equipment does not meet the essential requirements.

According to Art. 8 of Law No. 2002-028, the use of Nigerien standards is encouraged but not compulsory. It may be made compulsory by a joint order of the Minister responsible for standardisation and the Minister responsible for the activity concerned. The procedure for certification by a third party or by the national certification body is not necessary and self-certification is allowed.
According to Arts. 2, 3 and 14, third-party certification from Conformity Assessment Bodies (CABs) that are recognised (or approved) by the regulator are accepted. However, certification from CABs is not always mandatory.

Niger has a national structure responsible for developing standards, called the Nigerien Standardization of Metrology and Certification Agency. According to Art. 2.1, foreign companies are not authorized to be members of this standardization organizations. However, upon request from economic partners or if necessary, technical standardization committees are created (Art. 3). The foreign companies can express their opinion in this technical committee.

The indicator "6.2.4 - Government Internet shut down in practice" of the V-Dem Dataset, which measures whether the government has the technical capacity to actively make internet service cease, thus interrupting domestic access to the internet or whether the government has decided to do so, has a score of 3 in Niger. This corresponds to "Rarely but there have been a few occasions throughout the year when the government shut down domestic access to Internet."