Overview
- The Administrative Investigations Prosecutor’s Office (PIA), which filed Friday with Federal Prosecutor Guillermo Marijuan, said the 138 bid documents contain serious legal and technical flaws.
- Argentina’s ports and navigation agency ANPyN closed the technical stage with no administrative objections on file and set Tuesday, May 19 at 1 p.m. for opening price offers from Jan De Nul with Servimagnus and DEME.
- Official scoring places Jan De Nul ahead of DEME by 66.20 to 42.14 points, while price counts for 60% of the total score and will likely decide the winner.
- The PIA cited an overload of more than 9,000 pages before the public hearing that hindered real input and flagged weak anticorruption wording, permissive contract transfers, narrow limits on challenges, curbs on joint ventures, and the lack of a nationally certified environmental study.
- The 25‑year concession faces new political pressure after Congressman Jorge Taiana introduced a bill Saturday that asks the executive to suspend or annul the tender.