Acquisition du banc d’essai des BESS pour le compte de MASEN - MAROC. — Morocco Energy Storage Testbed Project

Specific Procurement Notice Request for Bids Plant Design, Supply and Installation of the Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) Testbed Employer: Moroccan Agency for Sustainable Energy (Masen) Project: Morocco Energy Storage Testbed Project (Testbed Project) Contract title: Design, Supply, Installing, Commissioning, and Training of the BESS Testbed Country: Kingdom of Morocco Grant No.: ESMAP TF0C4720 RFB No: 13/2026/MASEN Issued on: October 14th, 2026 1. The Moroccan Agency for Sustainable Energy (Masen) has received financing from the World Bank toward the cost of the Morocco Energy Storage Testbed Project, and intends to apply part of the proceeds toward payments under the Contract for Design, Supply, Installing, Commissioning, and Training of the BESS Testbed. For this contract, the Borrower shall process the payments using the Direct Payment disbursement method, as defined in the World Bank’s Disbursement Guidelines for Investment Project Financing, except for those payments, which the contract provides to be made through letter of credit. 2. The Moroccan Agency for Sustainable Energy (Masen) now invites sealed Bids from eligible Bidders for the design, supply, installation, testing, commissioning, training and handover of a complete and operational Battery Energy Storage System Testbed at the Noor Ouarzazate R&D Platform, including all equipment, systems and associated civil and electrical works required to test and characterize industrial BESS, to be completed within the period specified in the Contract and in accordance with the functional and performance requirements set out in the Employer’s Requirements. 3. Bidding will be conducted through international competitive procurement using a Request for Bids (RFB) as specified in the World Bank’s “Procurement Regulations for IPF Borrowers” July 2016, Revised version September 2025 (“Procurement Regulations”) and is open to all eligible Bidders as defined in the Procurement Regulations. 4. Bids will be evaluated in accordance with the evaluation process set out in the bidding document. The following weightings shall apply for Rated Criteria (including technical and non-price factors): 70% and for Bid cost: 30%. 5. Interested eligible Bidders may obtain further information from Masen by email at e-tendering@masen.ma and through M. Omar Amarti at o.amarti@masen.ma and inspect the bidding document during office hours from 09:00 to 17:00 at the address given below. 6. The bidding document in English, quoting RFB No. 13/2026/MASEN, can be downloaded by interested eligible Bidders, free of charge, from the following link: https://etendering.masen.ma 7. Bids must be delivered to the address below on or before 27/11/2026 at 14h:00 Moroccan Time. Electronic bidding will not be permitted. Late Bids will be rejected. The outer Bid envelopes marked “ORIGINAL BID”, and the inner envelopes marked “TECHNICAL PART” will be publicly opened in the presence of the Bidders’ designated representatives and anyone who chooses to attend, at the address below on 27/11/2026 at 15h:00 Moroccan Time. All envelopes marked “FINANCIAL PART” shall remain unopened and will be held in safe custody of the Employer until the second public Bid opening. 8. All Bids must be accompanied by a Bid-Securing Declaration. 9. Attention is drawn to the Procurement Regulations requiring the Borrower to disclose information on the successful bidder’s beneficial ownership, as part of the Contract Award Notice, using the Beneficial Ownership Disclosure Form as included in the bidding document. Additionally, all project activities must be completed before the funding closes at the end of October 2027. 10. The address referred to above is: MOROCCAN AGENCY FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY Said BENDAOUD Manager Achats, Moyens Généraux & Logistique Complexe Zénith Rabat N° 50, Rocade Sud Rabat-Casablanca Immeubles A-B-C-D, Souissi, Rabat – Maroc Tel +212 (0)537 57 45 50 Fax +212 (0)537 57 14 74 www.masen.ma bendaoud@masen.ma e-tendering@masen.ma