Morocco issues international tender for 4,000 tons of frozen meat for armed forces
3,000 tons of beef to be sourced from Brazil
MOROCCO – Morocco’s National Defense Administration has opened an international call for bids to procure 4,000 tons of frozen red meat intended for units of the Royal Armed Forces stationed in the Southern Zone, according to official tender documents.
The tender, listed as No. 01/ADN/ZS/2026, is structured into two contracts covering 3,000 tons of frozen beef and 1,000 tons of frozen camel meat, with offers required to be filed at the administration’s headquarters in Rabat by March 9 at 2 p.m.
Under the terms of the notice, the beef portion is reserved for suppliers based in Brazil in line with sanitary protocols and health certification arrangements agreed between Rabat and Brasília, and the documentation was formally forwarded to the Brazilian Embassy in Rabat by Delegate Minister Abdeltif Loudyi.
Financial estimates place the beef contract at US$13.8 million, while the camel meat segment is valued at US$4.6 million, with provisional guarantees set at US$276,000 for beef and US$92,000 for camel meat, both to be secured through Moroccan banking institutions.
The contractual timeframe extends over 14 months for beef and 10 months for camel meat, with deliveries directed to refrigerated storage facilities in Agadir at a monthly pace of 250 tons of beef and 100 tons of camel meat starting two months after the issuance of the service order.
All consignments must be transported in 40-foot refrigerated containers maintained at temperatures of minus 18 degrees Celsius or lower, and the tender rules explicitly forbid any transhipment during transit.
Health and Technical Conditions
Specifications prepared by the Veterinary Health Bureau of the Southern Zone stipulate that cattle must be born, raised, and slaughtered in Brazil, fed exclusively on plant-based diets free from genetically modified organisms, and sourced from regions officially recognised as free from foot and mouth disease, tuberculosis, brucellosis, and leucosis.
In addition, slaughter procedures are required to comply with halal standards under the supervision of an accredited Islamic body, and each quarter must carry a visible halal mark applied by the Moroccan veterinary monitoring commission, while production dates must not exceed three months prior to freezing in tunnels operating between minus 35 and minus 45 degrees Celsius.
The procurement follows a sharp rise in Morocco’s beef imports from Brazil, which climbed from 1,558 tons in 2024 to 4,806 tons in 2025, an increase of more than 300%, according to figures released by Brazil’s beef exporters association, ABIEC.
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