Perito Moreno Gas Pipeline expansion (ex-GPNK) - TGS

Transportadora de Gas del Sur S.A. Sucursal Dedicada 1 (TGS SD1), CUIT 30-71881250-6, Cecilia Grierson 355, 26th floor, CABA. ⚠️ IT IS A DEDICATED BRANCH, set up in December 2024 to fit the project into the regime: the parent company assigned it the tender rights. For a supplier that means two legal entities of the same group are buying similar things, and only one of them is under the regime.

There are three tables and they should not be confused. (1) SACDE, which is running the eight simultaneous works and does the subcontracting in the field — that is the door for a construction supplier. (2) TGS, for equipment, regulated-system services and later operation and maintenance; its higher-impact tenders run through the SAP Ariba portal. (3) Energía Argentina S.A., which owns the concession and ran the original tender. ⛔ There is no supplier portal for THIS project with tender documents open to the public: the door is private, and you get in through SACDE or through TGS.

The short route for a mid-sized firm: not bidding yourself, but being named as a principal subcontractor in someone else's bid verif · May 22, 2025 ↗Verbatim from the tender documents: «El Oferente podrá acreditar el cumplimiento de cualesquiera de los requisitos técnicos […] mediante la nominación en su propuesta de Subcontratistas Principales que posean la experiencia prevista» — a bidder may meet any of the technical requirements by naming principal subcontractors that hold the required experience.

The bidder thresholds, which are what shuts firms out: USD 40 million in net worth, USD 95 million in total assets and a USD 5 million bid bond verif · May 22, 2025 ↗The tender documents require net worth of USD 40,000,000 or more at the last audited year-end and on average over the last two; total assets of USD 95,000,000 at the last year-end and USD 80,000,000 on average; meeting at least three of the five financial ratios in the standing table; a bid bond of USD 5,000,000; and the performance bond in dollars, with signatures certified before a notary, within five days of being notified of the award.

The technical experience required, which can be evidenced with track record going back up to twenty years verif · May 22, 2025 ↗Two requirements. First, having operated and maintained gas pipeline transport systems «totalizing more than 200 km», including high-pressure pipelines of 20 inches or more in diameter, maximum operating pressure above 60 bar and installed power of 4,000 HP or more at compressor stations. Second, having installed, directly or through third parties, «al menos una estación turbocompresora de más de 8.000 HP» — at least one turbocompressor station of more than 8,000 HP — or an expansion involving the erection of a turbocompressor of that rating.

Certifying the technical standards in the tender documents: the ENARGAS NAG series, API 1104 for welding, and ASME verif · May 22, 2025 ↗Annex 1 of the tender documents requires NAG-100 on safety for transport and distribution, NAG-108 on anti-corrosion coatings, NAG-126 on compressor station safety, NAG-148 on separation, metering and pressure-reduction stations, NAG-153 on environmental protection, API 1104 «Welding of Pipelines and Related Facilities» and sections VIII and IX of the ASME code, plus the rules of the National Roads Directorate, the provincial road authorities and Ferrocarriles Argentinos.

Spending at least 1 % of hours worked on training staff in safety, health and the environment verif · Dec 31, 2025 ↗Verbatim from the owner's 2025 ESG report: «Solicitamos a nuestras empresas contratistas que destinen al menos el 1 % de las horas trabajadas a capacitar a su personal en seguridad, salud y ambiente, un requisito que se cumple e incluso se supera en la mayoría de los casos» — contractors are asked to devote at least 1 % of hours worked to safety, health and environmental training. Courses are taken on the digital platform the company built with the Universidad Tecnológica Nacional, Facultad Regional Bahía Blanca, and Resolución SRT N° 905/15 also applies.

Having started the filing with the Corporate Integrity and Transparency Register, and signing the owner's transparency clause and integrity programme verif · May 22, 2025 ↗The tender documents require the bidder and every member of a joint venture or consortium to have started and evidenced its filing with the Corporate Integrity and Transparency Register. On the owner's side, the ESG report adds signing the transparency clause, adherence to the Integrity Programme and the Code of Conduct, and an anti-bribery clause in every purchase order.

The three new compressor stations go to La Pampa, the province with the highest local content floor in the country: 80%, with three years of prior local establishment required of the supplier. verif · Oct 18, 2012 ↗Law 2675 obliges the holders of provincial permits, concessions and works-and-services contracts to contract «at least eighty per cent (80%) of labour, suppliers and services from La Pampa», and «the same requirement shall be met by subcontractors, and/or any other person or company that on any basis is carrying out tasks in provincial hydrocarbon areas» (art. 12). A La Pampa supplier requires legal domicile, head office in the province and three years of established presence evidenced by municipal licence and tax registration (art. 13). ⛔ Whether the article reaches this project is NOT settled: the law declares transport to be of provincial public interest, but art. 12 binds holders of PROVINCIAL permits and concessions, and the Gasoducto Perito Moreno is a transport system licensed by ENARGAS. ⚠️ The contrast that makes it urgent: the owner itself publishes where its suppliers come from —the metropolitan area, Buenos Aires, Neuquén, Río Negro, Chubut and Santa Cruz— and La Pampa appears in none of its three lists, with the three new compressor stations all there.