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Article L2195-3 of the French Public procurement code

Where the contract is an administrative contract, the purchaser may terminate it: 1° In the event of sufficiently serious misconduct on the part of the co-contractor; 2° For a reason of general interest, in accordance with the provisions of 5° of article L. 6.

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Article L2195-4 of the French Public procurement code

If, during the performance of the contract, the contractor is placed in one of the cases of exclusion mentioned in articles L. 2141-1 to L. 2141-11, he shall inform the purchaser of this change in situation without delay. The purchaser may then terminate the contract for this reason. However, the purchaser may not terminate the contract for the sole reason that the economic operator is the subject of receivership proceedings…

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Article L2195-5 of the French Public procurement code

Where a contract should not have been awarded to an economic operator on the grounds of a serious breach of the obligations laid down by European Union procurement law which has been recognised by the Court of Justice of the European Union under the procedure provided for in Article 258 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, the purchaser may cancel the contract.

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Article L2196-2 of the French Public procurement code

Under the conditions and subject to the exceptions laid down by regulation, the purchaser shall make the essential contract data accessible in an open and freely re-usable format, with the exception of data the disclosure of which would breach the provisions of article L. 2132-1 or be contrary to public policy.

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Article L2196-3 of the French Public procurement code

Each year, contracting authorities and contracting entities communicate the data contributing to the economic survey of public purchasing, in accordance with the conditions laid down by regulation.These data relate to the awarding, notification or performance of contracts.

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Article L2196-4 of the French Public procurement code

The obligations laid down in this section apply to contracts concluded by the State or its public establishments for which the special nature of the techniques, the small number of candidates with the required skills, reasons of secrecy or reasons of imperative urgency or crisis do not make it possible to call for competition or to use it effectively.They also apply to contracts involving complex services with a term of…

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Article L2196-5 of the French Public procurement code

Tenderers for a contract mentioned in article L. 2196-4 and negotiated without prior advertising or competitive tendering by the State or its public establishments, shall provide the purchaser, if the latter so requests, with all information on the technical and accounting elements of the estimated cost of the services which are the subject of the contract. The holders of the contracts mentioned in article L. 2196-4 shall provide the purchaser,…

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Article L2196-6 of the French Public procurement code

Holders and, under conditions set by regulation, companies related to them and their subcontractors, are obliged to allow and facilitate any documentary or on-site verification of the accuracy of the information mentioned in article L. 2196-5 by government officials. They may be required to submit their balance sheets, profit and loss accounts, cost accounting and any documents likely to enable costing.

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