📋 Tender Overview
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The Moroccan National Electricity and Water Office (ONEE) is implementing a large scale desalination project as part of the Priority Drinking Water Supply and Irrigation Programme 2020-2027 (PNAEPI), launched in January 2022.
800 million euros will be needed to build the future seawater desalination plant intended to supply 200 million cubic meters of water per year, for irrigation and drinking water supply in the cities of Casablanca, Settat, Berrechid, Azemmour and El Jadida. The aim is to reduce the pressure on surface water, whose reserves have fallen drastically due to the drought in the Casablanca-Settat region.
This stage of the project should be completed in 2026. A second phase will extend the capacity of the Casablanca-Settat seawater desalination plant to 300 million cubic meters per year by 2030. approximately 40 km southwest of Casablanca the facility, which will desalinate water from the Bouregreg and Oum Er Rbia basins, will have a capacity of 200 million m3 per year, expandable to 300 million m3 per year. Upon completion, it is expected to improve the supply of drinking water to the populations of the cities of Casablanca, Settat, Berrechid, Azemmour and El Jadida.
At least six consortiums led by several large international groups have formulated offers to ONEE: The Suez group, the world specialist in water and environmental management, which has joined forces with the Japanese company Itochu and Navera, the subsidiary of the Moroccan group Al Mada; The Spanish Abengoa Agua which has joined forces with Engie, the consortium formed by Tedagu; The Chinese Sepco III; Fipar Power Holding of Morocco, and Acwa Power, an IPP based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Israeli desalination specialist IDE Technologies has teamed up with Japan’s Mitsui to form a consortium with General Society of Works Morocco (SGTM) and Maghreb Civil Engineering Society (SOMAGEC). The successful bidders will be announced in May 2023.
