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Article R2172-30 of the French Public procurement code

The purchaser may not award the innovation partnership on the basis of the initial tenders without negotiation. It shall negotiate the initial tenders and all subsequent tenders with a view to improving their content, with the exception of the final tenders. The award criteria and minimum requirements are not subject to negotiation.
Negotiation may take place in successive phases at the end of which certain tenderers are eliminated by application of the award criteria defined in the consultation documents. The purchaser shall indicate in one of these documents whether it will make use of this possibility. At the end of each phase, it informs all tenderers whose tenders have not been eliminated of the changes made to the consultation documents and allows them sufficient time to modify their tenders and, if appropriate, to resubmit them.

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Article R2172-30


L’acheteur ne peut attribuer le partenariat d’innovation sur la base des offres initiales sans négociation. Il négocie les offres initiales et toutes les offres ultérieures en vue d’en améliorer le contenu à l’exception des offres finales. Les critères d’attribution et les exigences minimales ne font pas l’objet de négociation.
La négociation peut se dérouler en phases successives à l’issue desquelles certains soumissionnaires sont éliminés par application des critères d’attribution définis dans les documents de la consultation. L’acheteur indique, dans l’un de ces documents, s’il fera usage de cette possibilité. Il informe, à l’issue de chaque phase, tous les soumissionnaires dont l’offre n’a pas été éliminée des changements apportés aux documents de la consultation et leur accorde un délai suffisant pour leur permettre de modifier leur offre et, le cas échéant, de la présenter à nouveau.

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