RECOVERY OF FREIGHT RAILWAY SAN MARTIN´S LINE Rehabilitation Project

Provinces included: Buenos Aires - Santa Fe - Córdoba San Luis - Mendoza. Kms. to rehabilitate: 1360 km Amount of Investment: USD 1.600 million Trains service: freight and passengers

ti Gu

M

San Luis

er o

CHILE

Jujuy RECOVERY OF SAN MARTIN´S PARAGUAY Salta FREIGHT RAILWAY LINE

Pa

un

C15

C18

1.360km

C12

Metán

San Juan

976,540

C8

Catamarca

976,540

Chaco

C12

Santiago del Estero

Catamarca C6

M e Gu ndo tie za rr ez

Mendoza

Formosa Tracks recoveryMetán

C

Corrientes

CHILE

Salta

La R

Santa Fe La Rioja

Mendoza

La Pampa

La Rioja

San Juan

Córdoba

Entre Ríos

San Juan ne

br ed Ca Pi

Neuquén

San Buenos Aires Luis

Río Negro

SAN MARTIN LINE MITRE LINE

Neuquén

La Pampa

Mendoza

Río Ne P

CHILE

M e Gu ndo tie za rr ez

la

r

D.

Sa

Mendoza

fo rc

Ru

fin

ad a

o

Neuquén

U

Soldini

ro

San Luis Pa u

CHILE

M e Gu ndo tie za rr ez

C

Entre PARAGUAY Jujuy Ríos Soldini C15

C18

C18

STRETCHES

Corrientes

C6

Formosa Santa Fe

Formosa

C

Cabred - Sofocarda

D. Ca br ed

Chaco

Chaco

C12

Metán

Province: Buenos Aires 391km line renewal

976,540

r

Sa

Ru

fo rc a

da

fin o

Salta

la

BRASIL

C12

C8

Santiago del Estero

Pi C12 Córdoba Santiago Catamarca

URPARAGUAY UGUAY

C

del Estero Misiones

Mision

C6 Entre Corrientes Ríos Sofocarda -URUG Paunero Soldini Santa Fe UAY

Buenos Aires Pa

un

er o

an uis

La Rioja

Provinces: Buenos Aires - Santa Fe Corrientes Córdoba 372km line renewal

ed br Ca

Sa

BRASIL

fo

Ru

rc

fin

ad

o

a

C6

Pi

la

r

D.

Santa Fe

San Juan

Córdoba

BRASI

C

Buenos Aires ez tie

rr

za

o Pa

GUAY Córdoba

Ríos

Provinces: Córdoba -Soldini San Luis- Mendoza 358km line renewal

er

a Pampa

un

Gu

do en M

Paunero - Gutierrez Entre

San Luis

d re D. C

ab

rc

Pi

la r

Sa

Mendoza

fo

Ru fin

o

ad a

C

Provincie: Santa Fe 240km line renewal

Pi la

r

D.

Ca

br e

ad

rc fo

URUGUAY

Buenos Aires

Rufino - Soldini (Mitre Line)

d

a

La Pampa Sa

Ru

fin o

Entre Ríos Soldini

Neuquén

Buenos Aires

PROJECT

GENERAL Misiones

OBJECTIVES

This Project provides the rehabilitation of 1.360 kilometres of tracks of the San Martin´s Railway with the objective of improving the connection between the Cuyo Region and Buenos Aires port. Thus, it aims at providing a trustable and efficient alternative as regards freight transportation, influencing positively in the production areas along the corridor Buenos Aires - Mendoza, generating a larger BRASIL volume of transported freight by this means and consequently a reduction in transportation costs and logistics for producers.

BENEFITS UGUAY Increase in the railway freight capacity Increase in the intermodal participation of the railway in freight transportation Reduction in logistic costs Reduction in infrastructure maintenance costs Reduction in freight in transit times More fluidity and competitiveness in railway traffic

CURRENT SITUATION

General situation of the track: Some sectors of the track need intensive improvement or total renewal, if the aim is to significantly improve the speeds of convoys so as to improve competitiveness and complementarity with other means of transport, both for passengers and freight. Characteristics: Wide gauge: 1.676 mm Freight and passenger trains circulate Average convoy: 45 wagons Track structural design: 20 tn./axis (good condition) Rolling stock: 20 tn./axis Average speed for freight train: 40 km/h Maximum speed for passenger train: 80 km/h Simple track: in many sectors of the network Extension: approximately 1050 km between Buenos Aires and Mendoza Design parameters of the projected track: Freight train circulation: with standard trains of up to 105 empty wagons (1.600 tn.) and loaded trains of up to 56 wagons (4700 tn.) Passengers train circulation: with standard trains 11 coaches of 800 tn. Maximum load per axis: -30 tn for freight convoys -22 tn/axis for passenger convoys Maximum design speed: -120 km/h for 22 tn./axis convoys -90 km/h for freight convoys Gauge: 1.676 mm Minimum design radius: 500m Ballast: 30cm thick as from sleeper’s underside Sub ballast: 35 cm thick Track: UIC 54 Sleeper: Pre-stressed concrete, weight350 kg. per unit, length 2.760 mm

La Pampa

TASKS TO BE PERFORMED Chubut Chubut

Neuquén

Santa Cruz

Río Negro

Below, some of the tasks to be performed by the contracting companies are detailed, without limitation. Development of design, engineering and executive project.

Santa Cruz

The initial survey, the elaboration of an executive project for the renewal of tracks and the complementary works and their stakeout. The removal of the existing tracks to be renewed, that shall comprise the ultrasound auscultation of the existing tracks, the marking of the detected defects and trimming thereof, the disassembly of the track structure, classification of materials, their transport and storage.

The formation of the new sub grade and the cross section of the track area according to Santa Cruz the standard profile specification and design standards.

Chubut

The assembly and installation of the new track structure in wide gauge (1.676 mm), which shall consist of rails Profile 54E1, Class “R260” 18 and/or 25 meters welded with preferably electric butt welding, or Aluminothermic, to constitute Long Welded Rail (LWR) with double elastic fastenings and monoblock concrete sleepers (at the rate of 1500 units per kilometre). The start-up of all transversal drains of the stretch. The provision of assembled Turnouts, comprising the design, supply and installation with new rails, wooden sleepers and double elastic fastenings. The construction of the indicated static turnouts.

REFERENCE REGULATIONS

Chubut

In the engineering, construction, assembly and maintenance of all the Works, the current edition of the following standards shall be complied with: Railway project • Ferrocarriles Argentinos Standards • SETOP Standard Structures:

nta Cruz • CIRSOC Rules • IRAM Standard Railway bridges and engineering work: • Ferrocarriles Argentinos: Regulation for reinforced concrete railway bridges and tensioning for railway bridges. • Argentinean Regulations for the project and construction of railway bridges of riveted steel. • Instructions to submit technical documentation of railway bridges (I-GVO- (OA) 008) • DNV: Bases for calculating reinforced concrete bridges Railway design: • DNV: Standards for geometric design. • AASHTO: “A Policy on Geometric Design of Highways and Streets” (Green Book). Safety and hygiene: • National Safety and Hygiene Law N°19587, Decree 351/79. • Municipal laws. • OSHA Regulation.

CONDITIONS OF ADMISSIBILITY

Articles of association, minutes of Shareholder´s meetings and Minutes of the Board of Directors' Meeting evidencing capacity of the Offeror and of the attorney-in-fact. Balances and audited Financial Statements, of which economic and financial indicators higher than the following ones arise: • Capital adequacy ratio higher than 1.2 • Current ratio higher than 1.2 • Total equity higher than twenty-five per cent (25%) of the Official Budget plus VAT. • Liquid assets plus Access to Credit higher than twenty-five per cent (25%) of the Official Budget plus VAT. Annual volume in construction work higher than seventy per cent (70%) of the Official Budget plus VAT. Certificate of capacity issued by a government authority that accredits capacity higher than seventy per cent (70%) of the Official Budget plus VAT. Experience at works that have reached an average monthly rate of execution higher than 2,5% of the Official Budget plus VAT. Experience in a work of similar complexity to the renewal of railway infrastructure. Technical Representative with minimum experience of 10 years in similar works. Proven property and/or third party agreements that ensure the availability of essential equipment for the execution of the work (Tamping, aligner, grader, cutting face, work trains, hoppers, shallow wagons, dynamic Stabilizer (not exclusive) train line built (not exclusive). Administrative documentation type: receipt of bid specifications purchase, bid bond, affidavits including the declaration of acceptance of the terms and conditions of the bidding documents without material deviation or conditions whatsoever, that does not have litigation against the National Government and/or its decentralized agencies. All documents submitted must be duly certified, legalized and, if necessary, translated into Spanish.

www.adifse.com.ar