Project name: ONEE Water Supply

Country: Morocco

Business sector: Municipal and Environmental Infrastructure

Project ID: 8609-EOI-43597

Funding source: EBRD

Type of contract: Works

Type of notice: Invitation for Tenders

Issue date: Monday 13 March 2017

Closing date: Thursday 26 April 2017, at 16.30 hours

This Invitation for Tenders follows the General Procurement Notice for this project which was published on the EBRD website, Procurement Notices (www.ebrd.com) on 19/05/2016.

The Office National de l’Electricité et de l’Eau Potable, hereinafter referred to as “the Employer”, intends using part of the proceeds of a loan from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (the Bank) towards the cost of ONEE Water Supply Project

The Purchaser now invites sealed tenders from Contractors for the following contract to be funded from part of the proceeds of the loan: Works of improvement of the installations of the centre of AIN CHEGAG: equipment lot.

Tendering for contracts to be financed with the proceeds of a loan from the Bank is open to firms from any country. The proceeds of the Bank's loan will not be used for the purpose of any payment to persons or entities, of for any import of goods, if such payment or import is prohibited by a decision of the United Nations Security Council taken under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations.

To be qualified for the award of a contract, tenderers must satisfy the following minimum criteria:

• The tenderer must have an average annual turnover of at least one million three hundred and twenty five thousand seven hundred and eighty Moroccan Dirhams excluding tax (1,325,780.00 MAD), which is the total of effected payments received for ongoing and/or completed contracts during the last three (03) years (2013-2014-2015).

• Experience as principal contractor in the context of at least two (2) contracts of similar work type and nature in the past ten (10) years that include:

- Works of equipment of pumping of an upper debit (flow) or equal to 10 l/s.

The tender documents (only French version) can be obtained free of charge from the tender's office of the ONEE-Branche Eau at the address below.

The same documents can be downloaded from the public procurement portal at: https://www.marchespublics.gov.ma Drawings, on CD, are available at the tender's office of the ONEE-Branche Eau and are part of the tender documents.

All tenders must be accompanied by a tender security of sixteen thousand Moroccan Dirhams (16,000.00 MAD). This should be consistent with paragraph 17.1 of the Instructions to Tenderers or its equivalent in a convertible currency.

A project site visit is scheduled for Thursday 13 April 2017 at 10.00 hours (local time) at the Centre of ONEE-Branche Eau at AIN CHEGAG. It is highly recommended for prospective tenderers to attend the site visit.

Tenders must be delivered to the office at the address below on or before Wednesday 26 April 2017 at 16.30 hours (local time), at which time they will be opened in the presence of tenderers' representatives who choose to attend.

Tenders will be opened in the presence of tenderers' representatives who choose to attend at the opening on Thursday 27 April 2017 at 09.30 hours (local time) at the address below.

Prospective tenderers may obtain further information from, and inspect and acquire the tender documents at, the following office:

Office National de l’Electricité et de l’Eau Potable – Branche Eau (ONEE-Branche Eau), Direction Régionale de centre Nord. Adresse: BP 27- 88 Rue du SOUDAN, Fes - MOROCCO. Tél: + 212 (0) 5 35 62 45 61/62 21 50/62 64 25. Fax: +212 (0) 5 35 62 34 10