The local-content rule where you live, and how much competition is already there
Five provinces with RIGI projects and five different rules: two with a binding quota, two with a preference and one with a plan target. What decides whether it is worth it is not the percentage: it is how many are already signed up.
Province by province: the rule, the percentage and the register
A percentage cannot be compared without looking at its base. The national 20% is calculated on goods and works and leaves services out; Río Negro's 60% includes them and also reaches indirect contracting. And a zero on a register may be a market gap or a classification one: Salta's classification list has 24 categories and leaves out laboratory work and geomembranes, so a supplier in those lines registers under «services» and disappears from the statistics.
The six rules, with their article
| Jurisdiction | Rule | What exactly it requires |
|---|---|---|
| National (RIGI) | Dec. 749/2024, Anexo I, art. 47 inc. l) verif · Aug 23, 2024 ↗ | A commitment in the supplier plan; it has to be evidenced every two years (art. 50) |
| Salta | Ley 8164, art. 17 verif · in force since 2019 ↗ | «they shall preferably contract»: a preference, not a quota. The teeth are in arts. 19-20, which tie the tax benefit to complying with it |
| Catamarca | Res. S.E.M. 498/14, art. 4° verif · in force since 2014 ↗ | An obligation; only those on the Re.P.E.M. register count |
| Río Negro | Ley 5805, art. 6 verif · Sep 1, 2025 ↗ | Hard quota; only certified Río Negro suppliers |
| San Juan | Ley 2827-M, art. 9 verif · Jul 16, 2026 ↗ | A target in a plan filed as a sworn statement; only those on the RE.PRO.MIN register count |
| Neuquén | Ley 3338, art. 15 verif ↗ | A preference, not an award — and the difference with Río Negro is the whole row: there the 60 % has to be performed by local suppliers; here they must be given preference for that amount. The mechanism is art. 14: a certified supplier stays in if its bid is up to 9 % (band A) or 6 % (band B) more expensive, and then has to match the best bid; if it does not, it is out |
The floor and its base are on each province's card, above; here is the rule that sets them, with its article and its link so you can audit it. What it requires matters as much as the number: a quota compels, a preference tilts. In Salta the 70% says «preferably» — what gives it teeth are arts. 19-20, which tie the tax benefit to complying with it.
When each project has to show how much it bought from local suppliers
Every project has to prove it bought local in two-year periods that start the day it acceded (art. 50 of Annex I of Decreto 749/2024) — not the day of the resolution, which can be up to 74 days later. We read the 21 Boletín Oficial notices one by one to get the exact date and the company that invoices.
Everything we publish here is public and complete — the full calendar, project by project, is right below. What we are building is what no listing gives you: which of the things you sell you can sell to each one, in what order they will need them, when each phase opens its window, what you need certified before knocking on the door, and who is already inside.
It is built per company, not a generic PDF — the map is not the same for a small firm as for a large contractor. Leave us your details and we will let you know when it is ready.
Do you sell anything to any of these 21? Your company analysed against the 21 projects is above, at the start of this section. Go to the per-company analysis ↑
How this is worked out
The accession dates are data; the deadlines are our own arithmetic. Each accession was read in article 2 of the project's resolution, in its Boletín Oficial notice, and carries its seal. The deadline is that date plus two years, by the letter of art. 50: it is not an official calendar — the enforcement authority has not published one.
Art. 50 sets the deadline but not the form. As of Aug 30, 2026 those implementing rules are not published: the four rules that should contain them were opened one by one and none does. Res. 19/2025 did regulate the supplier's obligation (art. 23); the holder's, no. And it is symmetrical: if the form is not published, a competitor does not have it either. What can be prepared is the evidence, which is what art. 51 uses to judge whether an exclusion was justified. The absence is sealed prob: proving that a rule does not exist requires exhausting a universe we do not control.
The days remaining are recomputed on every update of this page, they are not written by hand: if you see a number, it is today's.
The floors come from the text of each rule, not from its press summary, and every row links to the source. Registers count sign-ups, not installed capacity: they measure who filed the paperwork, and two of the four that exist are prob.
What is missing, said out loud: the state of the San Juan register is as of 11 Aug 2026 and it is the one that can change fastest — one publication in the provincial Boletín turns it around. It is on our watch list.
