Local content in the RIGI: what each province requires and how much competition is already there
Five provinces with RIGI projects and five different rules: two set a binding quota, two a preference and one a plan target. But the percentage is not enough to tell whether a door is really open: the register, the requirements of each one and the moment when each project must show what it bought locally matter too.
Province by province: the rule, the percentage and the register
These percentages should not be compared as if they measured the same thing. A binding quota, a price preference and a plan target are different mechanisms.
The size of a register does not automatically equal real competition in each category either: a register can hold hundreds of companies and none of them do exactly what a project needs.
That is why we show the rule, the register and the projects it reaches separately.
The rule says how much or how a project must buy locally. It does not say whether it buys what you make, in which phase it needs it, who contracts it or how many suppliers compete in your category.
To answer that we cross the rule, the project, its phase, the contractors and what your company does.
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The six rules, with their article
These are the rules that set quotas, preferences, registers and reporting duties. We open the specific article behind each one so it can be checked.
| 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 report
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.
The calendar below is public and complete. What no listing gives you is which of the things you sell you can sell to each one, when each phase opens its window and what you need certified before knocking on the door.
We look at what your company does and tell you which of these projects are worth approaching, with the evidence behind it. If we see no sign, we say so too and name the condition that would change it. One page as a dated PDF, within 48 working hours.
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How this is worked out
The percentages do not all measure exactly the same thing. Each rule defines its own calculation base: which purchases count, how it treats contracting through third parties, which period is taken and what the project must report. That is why we do not add up or rank these percentages as if they were a single scale.
The floors come from the text of each rule, not from its press summary, and every row links to the source. The base is not the same everywhere either: the national 20% is computed on goods and works, so services fall outside, while the 60% in Río Negro includes them. Registers count sign-ups, not installed capacity: they measure who filed the paperwork, and two of the four that exist are prob.
Two of the six rules say expressly that they reach what the project buys through its contractors: Río Negro (direct or indirect) and San Juan (direct and through contractors). In the other four the text does not draw that line, and we do not assume it.
The accession dates are data; the deadlines are our own arithmetic. Each accession was read in article 2 of the project 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. The days remaining are recomputed on every update of this page: if you see a number, it is from today.
Art. 50 sets the deadline but not the form. As of Oct 16, 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 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.
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