ARA "San Juan": only 2 companies applied for a search

July 31, 2018 – 00:00
Companies come from the United States. The results of the call for tenders will be announced within 10 days.

The second call for bids for the search of the submarine ARA "San Juan", which disappeared on November 15, came to an end and only two companies submitted their offer to perform the task without costs unless they find the ship.

The act took place in the navy's financial administrative department on the occasion of investigations to find the missing submarine.

Those who are still in the race are two firms of American origin: Ocean Infinity, who was working in the Pacific in search of the missing plane of Malaysia Airlines; and SEA Aquatic Electronic Systems, whose Venezuelan Hugo Marino is the reference.

The two proposals, which were presented on 12 and 17 July respectively to the national and family authorities of the victims, will now be evaluated formally, technically and economically. Define the one to be awarded In all cases, only the amount of the offer will be paid if the search result is positive.

In the economic aspect, according to information published on Compr.ar website, the most Marino with $ 7 million is down

Ocean Infinity is 7.5 million.

Changes with the first call for tenders
"They do not receive a single piece in advance.They will just succeed.It's from zero peso to what they say "it's here," a high-ranking government source who closely follows the search for the submarine that disappeared with 44 people on board, said last week to the newspaper La Nación
.this is not the only change with regard to the process that took more than two months and that was left unfinished after the objections to the Spanish company Igeotest. "The other is that They do not have a delimited search area. to allow them to enlarge the area or look elsewhere, "the spokespersons had detailed.
" After opening the bids, the commission that will evaluate everything works, since the companies themselves , until now, the technical evaluation will be much faster. The work will focus more on the costs and availability to start the research as soon as possible, "says the Defense.
The technical report must be in four days, that is to say Friday, August 3 th If there is a lack of documentation, the company has three days to comply with this requirement and then five days to evaluate them.The minimum search period is 60 days and maximum is 4 months.
Once the process is approved, the owner of the Navy will sign the document, which will hand it over to the department and the Cabinet Office.