A rebound in the contract for the exploitation and distribution of drinking water in urban and peri-urban Senegal. The Dispute Settlement Committee of the Public Procurement Regulatory Authority (ARMP) declared admissible, on November 7, the legal action of the Société des Eaux du Senegal (SDE), filed on November 5, to denounce adjudication provisional allocation to Suez by the Ministry of Hydraulics and Sanitation. The admissibility of the appeal of the SDE by the ARMP entails de facto, according to a source close to the file, the suspension of the provisional allocation to Suez. The decision of the Dispute Settlement Committee of the Public Procurement Regulatory Authority was notified on November 8th.
A source from the SDE welcomes this decision which confirms, she says, compliance with the regulations of public procurement and the rules of the call for tenders. Contacted by us, representatives of Suez were not reachable.
As a reminder, Suez was designated provisional winner on October 22, 2018, while SDE was the lowest bidder according to the operator prices announced by the minister of hydraulics himself last June in a program broadcast on the radio. RFM. The minister who had rejected the two gracious appeals filed by the SDE and Veolia (the other unfortunate candidate) finds himself in an awkward position with the ARMP. The next step will be decisive.
