Project name: ONEE Water Supply

Country: Morocco

Business sector: Municipal and Environmental Infrastructure

Project ID: 8718-IFT-43597

Funding source: EBRD

Type of contract: Works

Type of notice: Invitation for Tenders

Issue date: 07/06/2017

Closing date: 02 August 2017 at 09:00 AM (local time)

This Invitation for Tenders follows the General Procurement Notice of this project which has been published on the EBRD website, Procurement Notices (www.ebrd.com) on 24/05/2016.

The National Office of electricity and potable water, 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) to cover 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: The rehabilitation of the pipeline Bouregreg – Sector dam.

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, or 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 three Million seven hundred and fifty thousand Moroccan Dirhams excluding tax (3.750.000,00 MAD), which is the total of effected payments received for ongoing and/or completed contracts during the last three (03) years (2014-2015-2016).

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

• Supply and installation of at least 500 m of drinking water pipeline of a diameter superior to 150 mm.

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

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

All tenders must be accompanied by a tender security of forty five thousand Moroccan Dirhams (45.000,00 MAD) or its equivalent in a convertible currency.

Tenders must be delivered to the office at the address below on or before Wednesday 02nd August, 2017 at 09.00 AM (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 Wednesday 02nd August, 2017 at 09:00 AM (local time) at the address below.

Prospective tenderers may obtain further information from, 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 l’Ouest. Address: Lotissement Al Qods, Kenitra, MOROCCO. Phone: + 212 (0) 5 37 36 10 02/03/07. Fax: +212 (0) 5 37 36 10 05