Local Project Support Partner for Foreign Companies in Algeria

Your project. Your expertise. Your teams. Our local presence.

Three statutory clocks decide when your teams can actually start. The employment services notify a work permit decision within 45 days of filing, and past that delay their favourable opinion is deemed acquired. The permit is issued within the 15 days that follow a favourable opinion. A mission of 3 months or less runs on a temporary authorisation that cannot be renewed more than once in the same year (decret 82-510, art. 9 and 10; loi 81-10, art. 8). No text fixes a total duration, and we do not publish one.

Entering, establishing or executing a project in Algeria involves much more than technical expertise. Foreign companies may have to deal with local regulations, workforce mobilization, administrative procedures, authorities, logistics, suppliers, accommodation, facilities, local stakeholders and day-to-day operational constraints.

When these interfaces are not anticipated and properly coordinated, they can become bottlenecks that affect mobilization, schedules, costs and ultimately project execution.

UpGrowth acts as a Local Project Support Partner for foreign companies operating, investing or executing projects in Algeria.

From

USD 3,500

Project follow-up

Per month, from the awarded contract.

Starting price. Your quote is instant once every answer is in.

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You focus on delivering the project. We help you navigate everything around it.
Tell us about your project

No pitch deck required. A short description of the project is enough to start.

Your project may be technically ready. Is your local environment ready?

A project can be technically ready and still lose time because:

  • the required workforce is not ready to mobilize
  • permits or documentation are incomplete
  • an administrative procedure is delayed
  • local regulatory requirements have not been anticipated
  • suppliers or subcontractors are not ready
  • accommodation or transportation is not organized
  • site access requirements have not been coordinated
  • several local stakeholders are working without a clear interface
  • an apparently minor administrative issue becomes a critical-path issue
  • Critical path
  • Interfaces
  • Risks
  • Workforce readiness
  • Logistics
  • Compliance
  • Bottlenecks
  • Schedule
  • Site operations

Objective: identify friction points before they become project problems.

What we can support

Scope is defined project by project. The lists below describe what an assignment can cover, not a fixed package.

01

Project mobilization & local set-up

Depending on the project and its requirements, we can support:

  • project mobilization support
  • local operational preparation
  • foreign workforce mobilization
  • work permits and temporary work authorizations support
  • residence procedures
  • visa-related support
  • local administrative procedures
  • accommodation and relocation coordination
  • airport reception and arrival support
  • personnel deployment coordination
  • local establishment support
02

Logistics & operational support

Depending on the assignment, this can include:

  • airport reception, transfers and personnel transportation
  • accommodation, catering and related services
  • workforce movement coordination
  • site deployment support
  • local service providers
  • facilities and operational support
  • local logistics coordination
  • demobilization support
03

Regulatory, administrative & compliance support

Depending on the project and its requirements, we can support:

  • regulatory and administrative mapping
  • documentation and compliance follow-up
  • administrative procedures
  • interfaces with relevant Algerian authorities
  • foreign workforce compliance support
  • local establishment procedures
  • HSE / QHSE support
  • training and competence development
  • local workforce development support
  • follow-up of recurring regulatory requirements
04

Local sourcing, suppliers & subcontractors

Depending on the assignment, this can include:

  • identification of local suppliers
  • supplier pre-screening
  • identification of potential subcontractors
  • local sourcing
  • procurement support
  • local service-provider identification
  • coordination with selected suppliers and subcontractors
  • local content support where applicable
05

Project interfaces & operational continuity

The issue is often not the individual task. It is the interface between tasks, people and organizations.
  • Foreign management
  • Local entity / representatives
  • Authorities
  • Workforce
  • Suppliers & subcontractors
  • Logistics
  • Site operations

Our role:

  • identify dependencies
  • anticipate bottlenecks
  • coordinate stakeholders
  • escalate when necessary

Objective: operational continuity.

Starting prices in USD

  • Project follow-up, per monthFrom USD 3,500
  • Supplier sourcingFrom USD 5,000
  • Algerian partner searchFrom USD 10,000
  • Consortium structuringFrom USD 11,000
  • Partner introduction and negotiationFrom USD 20,000
  • Success fee on contract award (only if the contract is awarded)From USD 50,000
  • Introductions to engineering offices and laboratoriesFrom USD 1,500
  • Temporary admission of equipmentFrom USD 2,400

Advisor hour: 200 USD.

These are starting prices: the firm quote reflects the size of the project and its timeline, and it is instant once your answers are in.

Your total right away

Structure (one choice)
Options
Company, your manager opens the account
USD 8,500
Total
From USD 8,500

The firm price can rise with the size of the project and a tight timeline. The company file is paid 50% at your yes and 50% at the commercial registry step, secondary register included, and every other service when its work starts, by bank transfer to our AGB account, on the proforma.

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Professional plan: 1 named user, all countries, the calculators, the Journal officiel index, AI assistants and the API, alerts for 2 countries.

$3,900per year

14-day trial for companies: it starts by itself with the trial form and your business e-mail address.

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Price your project support now

Tick what you need and the total appears at once. Starting prices in USD.

Services, priced once
Project follow-up, billed monthly
Only if the contract is awarded

Total, one-off services

USD 0

Each service is paid when its work starts, by bank transfer to our AGB account, on the proforma.

Starting prices: the firm quote follows the size of the project and its timeline, instant once your answers are in.

Running costs in USD

These are starting prices: an instant firm quote as soon as we hold every answer.

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Who employs
Visa, work permit and residence card
USD 3,0001 x USD 3,000 per person
Annual renewal of the permit and the card
USD 9001 x USD 900 a year

Starting prices. Administration fees and charges are paid at cost. We issue no title and we promise none: the decision belongs to the administration.

Instant price once we hold every answer: the button opens the form.

Sectors

Projects we are set up to support.

  • Oil & Gas / EPC
  • Energy & Infrastructure
  • Industrial & Manufacturing
  • Food & Agribusiness
  • Construction & Industrial Installation
  • Other foreign investments & projects

One local partner. Multiple capabilities.

Depending on what an assignment requires, support is delivered in one of three ways.

1

Direct support

Within our capabilities, we manage it.

2

Coordinated support

Where several parties are involved, we coordinate the interfaces and the follow-up.

3

Qualified local partner network

For regulated professions or specialist technical fields, the work is coordinated with qualified local partners.

We do not pretend to do everything. We make sure the right things are done by the right people.

We do not replace your project team.

We are not:

  • your Project Manager
  • your engineers
  • your legal, tax, financial or technical specialists

We complement the team by managing the local execution environment.

  1. Understand
  2. Anticipate
  3. Coordinate
  4. Execute
  5. Follow up
  6. Escalate

Why foreign companies work with UpGrowth

Local knowledge

The procedures, the interfaces and the constraints as they actually work on the ground in Algeria.

Project thinking

Local tasks read against your critical path, not handled as isolated errands.

One local coordination interface

A single point of contact instead of a scattered set of local counterparties.

Flexible delivery

Scope adapts to the project, its stage and what your own team already covers.

Business-oriented

The objective is not simply to complete procedures. The objective is to help your people, your operations and your project move forward.

Our fees, starting prices

These are starting prices. They rise with the size of the contract. You get an instant price as soon as we have all your answers.

Tender file
USD 2 400Algerian bidder: 150 000 DZD HT
Review before filing
60 000 DZD HT
Bank guarantee set-up
45 000 DZD HTper guarantee
Grouping (GME) agreement
120 000 DZD HT
Consortium structuring
USD 11 000investment partnership commitment included
Algerian partner search
USD 10 000
Partner introduction and negotiation
USD 20 000
Completion fee on contract award
USD 50 000
Project follow-up
USD 3 500a month
Qualification and classification certificate (CQCP)
USD 12 000category I; up to USD 32 000 for category IX; Algerian company from 400 000 DZD HT
Permanent administrative file
30 000 DZD HTa month
Appeal after rejection
90 000 DZD HT

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Answer the four questions: the price and the total appear. The button opens the request form.

Also, if needed
Tender file
150 000 DZD excl. VAT
Total excl. VAT
150 000 DZD excl. VAT
VAT 19%
28 500 DZD
Total incl. VAT
178 500 DZD

This price holds for a contract under 10 M DZD and rises with the contract size.

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International partners under a signed MoU

Skolkovo FoundationIVF RT, Investment and Venture Fund of the Republic of TatarstanVanzbon, Global Company Registration and Tax Compliance
  • Russian Venture Forum Country Ecosystem Partner for Algeria, 2026 to 2028, through IVF RT
  • Speaker at Startup Village 2026, Moscow, Skolkovo's conference
  • Exhibitor at Web Summit Qatar 2025 and 2026
  • Requests from companies in China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan and Iraq

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Tell us about your project

You don't need to know exactly what service you need. Tell us what you are trying to achieve, and what is currently making it difficult.

1

The project

Enough for us to understand the shape and the timing.

Industry *
Project stage *
Estimated workforce
2

Where you expect to need support

Select everything that applies. Not sure yet is a valid answer.

Where you expect to need support
3

Context

The two questions that tell us the most.

4

How to reach you

So the reply goes to the right person.

Your enquiry goes to the team that would handle the assignment.

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UpGrowth (SPASU UpGrowth Connect, RC 25B1205167, Algiers) uses this information only to handle and follow up your request. Our team reads it; if our server cannot receive the form, a backup copy is emailed through services based outside Algeria (FormSubmit, Gmail). You can access, correct or erase it, or object to its use, by writing to contact@upgrowth.dz (Algerian Law 18-07 as amended by Law 25-11). Privacy policy

Questions we get from project teams

How long before our engineers can start work in Algeria?

The texts fix stages, not a total. The employment services notify their decision within 45 days of filing, and past that delay their favourable opinion is deemed acquired (decret 82-510, art. 9). The permit is then issued within the 15 days following that favourable opinion (art. 10). Upstream of both sits the accord de principe, for which the ministry procedure guide publishes no deadline at all, and that step together with the legalisation of your diplomas is what decides the real duration. We do not publish an end to end figure and you should distrust anyone who does.

Can we send a team to Algeria for two weeks without a work permit?

For exceptional works, a stay of not more than 15 days requires no work title, provided total cumulative presence does not exceed 3 months in the year and the works are declared to the wilaya director in charge of labour (loi 81-10, art. 9 and decret 82-510, art. 20). The 3 month figure is an ANNUAL COUNTER, not a per visit allowance, so repeated short rotations of the same crew cross it with nothing notifying you that they have.

Do we need an Algerian entity to mobilise people on site?

You need one as soon as you have to issue an Algerian invoice, import equipment in your own name or employ people here. A liaison office can do none of those. Which vehicle you need, and what executing with none of them costs, is set out in full on our page on setting up after an Algerian contract award.

What does a local project support partner actually do?

It is the local half of executing your project: workforce mobilisation, work titles and residence formalities, administrative procedures and the authorities behind them, logistics, suppliers, accommodation and site access, and holding a single interface across the local stakeholders. Your technical scope stays yours. What we take on is the environment around it, which is where schedules usually slip.

How is local project support priced?

These are starting prices: project follow-up from USD 3,500 a month from the awarded contract, Algerian partner search from USD 10,000, consortium structuring from USD 11,000, partner introduction and negotiation from USD 20,000, a completion fee on contract award of USD 50,000, local supplier sourcing from USD 5,000, and visa, work permit and residence card from USD 3,000 per person (1 to 10 people). The final figure follows your scope: the number of people to mobilise, the wilayas involved, the duration and which formalities you keep in house. The quote is instant once the answers of the form are in.

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Your project. Our local support.