The contract may be amended without a new competitive tendering procedure if the amendments, whatever their amount, are not substantial.
For the purposes of article L. 2194-1, a modification is substantial, in particular, when at least one of the following conditions is met:
1° It introduces conditions which, if they had been included in the initial award procedure, would have attracted more economic operators or enabled other economic operators to be admitted or enabled a tender other than the one selected to be chosen ;
2° It alters the economic balance of the contract in favour of the contractor in a way that was not provided for in the initial contract;
3° It considerably alters the subject of the contract;
4° It has the effect of replacing the initial contractor with a new contractor outside the cases provided for in article R. 2194-6.