Casablanca Bus Upgrade Delayed: 350 New Vehicles Canceled Amid Contract Issues

The reason? Casa-Transports has just announced the cancellation of the call for tenders for the acquisition of 350 new buses without really knowing the reasons. It is estimated, according to the written message on the website of the establishment, that this cancellation is due to "exceptional circumstances not allowing the normal execution of the contract and this in application of the provisions of paragraph A of paragraph 1 of article 45 of the procurement regulations of the company Casa-Transports". Too much vagueness around this decision.

To recall, Casa-Transports had launched a few weeks ago a call for tenders divided into two lots for the acquisition of 350 new buses. The first concerned the supply of 200 buses while in the second it was a question of a lot of 150 buses for respectively 4.5 million dirhams and 3.5 million dirhams of provisional security deposit.

At the beginning of the month, the newspaper L’Economiste reported that the city intended to acquire 700 new buses to cope with the dilapidation of the fleet. The total amount for this acquisition was estimated at 1.5 billion dirhams.