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Carlos Mundins company offered a global economic proposal that was 7.95% lower than the official budget. Techint-Sacde and Pumpco exceeded the 20% stipulated in the specifications. BTU was awarded the work of laying pipelines for the reversal of the Northern Gas Pipeline. The reversal will allow the gas network connection to reach homes in northern Argentina and the scale development of industries such as lithium mining. The board of directors of the Energía Argentina company approved the awarding of Line 1 and 2 of the reversal works of the Gasoducto del Norte to the BTU company, considering that the combination of their offers turned out to be the “most economical” for the completion of the project. and the only one that fell within the legally acceptable deviations. In this way, the engineering and construction company BTU will be in charge of the 22-kilometer section of the 36-inch diameter Federal Integration Gas Pipeline that extends from Tío Pujio to La Carlota in Córdoba, in addition to 62 kilometers of a loop -running parallel- to the Northern Gas Pipeline, in the same province. The construction company BTU, directed by Carlos Mundin, had already been awarded the construction works of section 3 of the Presidente Néstor Kirchner Gas Pipeline in 2022, which extended from the province of La Pampa to Saliquello, in Buenos Aires, so it was part of a work considered a record for having been developed in just 10 months. Today is the GPNK International Public Tender No. 01/2024 for Detail Engineering, Supplies and Construction (EPC) for which the offers from the Techint-Sacde consortium and the American holding company Pumpco Piopeline Construction had also been prequalified, whose offers They greatly exceeded the official budget. According to the opinion released today, BTU for Line 1 offered $74,003,060,345.76, which was 12.5% ??higher than the estimate in the bidding document, while for Line 2 the same company offered $83,541,084, that is, 20.72% lower than Enarsas budget. In this way, the evaluation committee understood that overall the BTU offer is 7.95% lower than the official budget, considering that percentage within the deviations accepted by the specifications, so on that basis the board decided to determine the award. . Techint-Sacdes proposals were $82,048,460,665.33 for Line 1 (24.73% higher) and $130,702,389,118.67 for Line 2 (24.04% higher); while the proposals delivered by Pumpco were $88,291,655,443.66 for Line 1 (34.1% higher) and $133,823,364,790.60 for Line 2 (27% higher). In this way, the non-selected proposals were found to be above the 20% stipulated in the specifications, a margin that had already caused the tender to be dropped at the end of 2023 due to the insurmountable gap noted between the offers and the official budget. During the process of analyzing the offers, the evaluation committee rejected an observation made by the company Pumpco about the BTU offer for the second line because it was considered “abnormally low or unbalanced”, but for the Enarsa technicians that proposal “was a quote reasonable according to the cost structure and therefore an evaluation without observations.” The project is completed with the reversal of 4 compressor plants, whose proposals were opened this week and for which offers were received from the companies Esuco, Contreras Hermanos and Victor Contreras. Two of the plants are located in the province of Córdoba, one in Santiago del Estero and another in Salta, and the opening of envelopes number 2 with the economic proposals is expected to advance in their award. The construction of the pipelines and the reversal of the plants had initially been tendered as part of a single item, but the decision of the new management was to separate them in order to simplify operations and accelerate deadlines. The Reversion of the Northern Gasduct will require an investment of 710 million dollars, of which 540 million dollars will be provided by a loan from the Development Bank for Latin America and the Caribbean (CAF). The work will allow Vaca Muerta gas to be brought to the industries of Córdoba, Tucumán, La Rioja, Catamarca, Santiago del Estero, Salta and Jujuy, as well as the connection of homes to natural gas networks and the development of new activities on a scale. industrial, especially lithium mining. |
