Tunis-based Group Chimique Tunisien has appointed a consortium led by UK-based legal consultancy Eversheds Sutherland for the contract to undertake a feasibility study and procurement for a wastewater treatment plant in Tunis and a water desalination plant in Gabes.

Other members of the consortium are French engineering consultancy Axelcium and UK’s Hydrotec, which specialises in the design and modelling of hydraulic structures for water and wastewater facilities.

The feasibility study could take three months, with a tender expected to be issued in the first or second quarter of 2018, according to a source with knowledge of the project.

The planned water desalination plant is expected to have a capacity of 80,000 cubic metres a day while the wastewater plant will have a capacity of 60,000 cubic metres.