At the end of September 2025, the Moroccan public portfolio has 267 public establishments and enterprises (EEP), distributed between 217 public establishments and 50 public limited companies with direct Treasury participation. It is on this set that the Directorate of Public Enterprises and Privatization (DEPP) carries out its financial control missions, notably by virtue of Law 69-00 relating to State financial control of public companies, a system now called for in-depth modernization. The project, today, which will be entrusted to an external service provider, aims to provide the Management with a single channel for digitizing the process of controlling commitment and payment acts, from end to end. It is structured around two complementary components: the enrichment of the “AD@E” platform, operational since 2022 and dedicated to controlling the regularity of payments, and the creation of an expense management module intended for EEPs that do not have their own information system.
An existing platform,
a scope to expand
The DEPP has been relying for several years on two technological bricks developed according to the J2EE architecture, hosted within the ministry’s Datacenter: the “Massar” system, dedicated to the economic, financial and social data of the EEP, and the “AD@E” platform, which supports the control of the regularity of payments via six modules: authorizing officer, regularity control, budgetary control, cash control, payment treasurer control and Reporting.
The project consists of capitalizing on this existing system to integrate an EEP control module previously managed separately within the “Massar” system, dedicated to state controllers. The enlargement concerns in particular the monitoring of acts of commitment, markets, purchase orders, contracts, agreements, from their receipt to their approval or rejection, as well as the handling of verification missions from government commissioners (CG) and the monitoring of recommendations issued.
Three services for sequential deployment
The contract is structured into three consecutive services. The first will focus on defining the functional and technical specifications of the target modules: needs analysis, architecture, design of user interfaces, integration of requirements for qualified class 3 electronic signatures, in accordance with Law 43-20 relating to trust services for electronic transactions. The second service will cover the development, testing and deployment of modules in a production environment. The third will concern training, capacity building and skills transfer.
A governance issue for the State shareholder
Beyond the technical dimension, this project is part of a broader reform dynamic. Framework Law No. 50-21, which defines the fundamental objectives of State action in the reform of EEPs, provides for financial control focused on the assessment of performance, the evaluation of the governance system and the prevention of risks, an ambition which requires appropriate information tools. The deployment will affect the entire chain of control: nearly 2,000 users on the EEP side, some 200 state controllers and 350 paying treasurers for the electronic signature module, as well as DEPP managers and executives for steering and reporting needs. The institutional partners, Budget Directorate via the “e-budget” platform, General Treasury of the Kingdom, Court of Auditors, will be connected to the system via electronic data exchange protocols (electronic data interchange – EDI).
