The national government is preparing to launch a national and international public tender aimed at granting concessions for 4,428 kilometers (2,751 miles) of strategic routes distributed across eight corridors that cross the provinces of Buenos Aires, Santa Fe, Córdoba, San Luis, and La Pampa.
This is Stage II of the Federal Concessions Network, a program through which the government seeks to transfer responsibility for the maintenance, operation, and works of these routes to the private sector under state supervision.
The call for bids is expected to be published in the Official Gazette in the coming days, according to official sources. The preliminary bidding documents are already available, while the final legal reviews are being supervised by the Legal and Technical Secretariat of the Presidency.
This program is part of a structural transformation in the road policy of Javier Milei's government. The Federal Concessions Network covers a total of 9,154 kilometers (5,690 miles), equivalent to 20% of the national road network, but which concentrates 80% of the traffic.
Unlike Stage I, which tendered only two sections (741 km [460 miles]) of the so-called Mercosur Route, this second stage involves eight corridors of greater length and operational complexity.
