The verdict in three sentences
A cement company corporate website in Dakar costs 9 to 25 million FCFA excl. VAT in 2026 (about 13,700 to 38,100 EUR), the spread driven mainly by the distributor portal and the number of languages. Application maintenance then costs 350,000 to 900,000 FCFA a month (about 530 to 1,370 EUR) and belongs in the tender from day one. A realistic schedule is 12 to 18 weeks, provided management signs off the site map within the first month.
Cost lines of an industrial corporate site
The communications director of a 1,200-employee group must serve several audiences at once: distributors and hardware stores, engineering firms and contractors, investors and banks, job seekers, local communities and authorities. Each audience becomes a module with a cost.
| Module | Content | 2026 budget (FCFA excl. VAT) | Essential? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Discovery and site map | Workshops, benchmark, 40 to 70 pages | 900,000 to 2,000,000 | Yes |
| Premium design and build | Brand, 20 to 30 templates, restrained motion | 2,500,000 to 6,000,000 | Yes |
| Product catalogue | CEM I, CEM II sheets, technical PDFs | 800,000 to 2,000,000 | Yes |
| Distributor portal | Login, price lists, orders, documents | 2,500,000 to 8,000,000 | Depends on strategy |
| ESG, careers, newsroom | Reports, job offers, press releases | 1,000,000 to 3,000,000 | Yes |
| Bilingual FR/EN | Translation, templates, hreflang | 700,000 to 2,000,000 | Recommended |
| 3G performance and CDN | AVIF images, caching, African CDN | 600,000 to 2,000,000 | Yes |
The core site without a distributor portal lands around 9 to 12 million FCFA. A portal with orders, pickup tracking and accounting documents pushes the project to 18 to 25 million.
Preparing the tender: what to require
| Criterion | Minimum requirement | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Mobile load time | Under 3 s on 3G for the home page | Regional distributors on mobile networks |
| Home page weight | Under 1.5 MB | Visitors' data costs |
| Accessibility | WCAG 2.1 AA on key templates | Corporate image, lenders |
| CMS | Self-service editing, approval workflow | Press releases without the vendor |
| Security | CSP headers, daily backups, audit | Industrial sites are defacement targets |
| Maintenance | Written SLA, 350,000 to 900,000 FCFA/month | Avoids post-delivery overruns |
| Ownership | Code and content transferred to client | Freedom to switch vendor |
Weight the technical score at 60 % or more. The cheapest bids, around 4 to 6 million FCFA, usually sacrifice mobile performance and editorial workflow, the two things most expensive to fix later.
Typical 16-week plan
Weeks 1 to 3: workshops, site map, management sign-off. Weeks 4 to 7: wireframes and web brand. Weeks 8 to 13: development, catalogue, distributor portal. Weeks 14 to 15: QA, content, translation. Week 16: go-live and editor training. The main delay risk is collecting ESG content and plant photography, which should start in week 2.
Mini case study
Aïssatou, communications director of a 1,200-employee cement company in Dakar, chooses a 16 million FCFA excl. VAT project with a distributor portal, plus maintenance at 600,000 FCFA a month. Sales receives about 2,400 calls and WhatsApp messages a month from 180 distributors about prices, availability and delivery notes. If the portal absorbs 50 %, at 10 minutes per request it frees about 100 hours a month, close to one sales assistant (about 450,000 FCFA fully loaded per month). Annual gain: 5.4 million FCFA, against 7.2 million of annual maintenance. The portal is therefore justified mainly by order growth: a 1 % volume increase across 180 distributors covers the investment in under two years.
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FAQ
What budget for an industrial corporate website in Dakar?
9 to 25 million FCFA excl. VAT in 2026. The corporate core costs 9 to 12 million; the distributor portal adds 2.5 to 8 million.
How much does corporate website maintenance cost?
Serious application maintenance costs 350,000 to 900,000 FCFA a month depending on SLA, included content updates and 24/7 monitoring.
How long for a 50-page corporate site?
Allow 12 to 18 weeks. Management sign-off of the site map in month one determines whether the schedule holds.
Must the site be hosted in Senegal?
Not necessarily: a CDN with West African points of presence gives response times under 100 ms in Dakar. Candidates' personal data must comply with Senegal's law 2008-12 and the CDP.
How should we score web tender bids?
Weight at least 60 % on technical merit (3G performance, CMS, security, maintenance) and 40 % on price. Require industrial references and a back-office demo.
Let's scope your project. Share your specification or target audiences: we price the core site, distributor portal and maintenance in FCFA or EUR, with a 12 to 18 week plan. Detailed quote within 48 h. WhatsApp +221 77 596 93 33.
Mohamed Bah
Fondateur, Kolonell
Passionate about digital and entrepreneurship in Africa, Mohamed has been helping Sénégalese businesses with their digital transformation since 2020. Founder of Kolonell, he believes every SME deserves a professional and accessible online présence.
