The purchaser may use a central purchasing body located in another Member State of the European Union, provided that this choice has not been made with the aim of evading the application of national provisions affecting public policy. The law then applicable to the contract is the law of the Member State in which the central purchasing body is located.
Order pools may be formed between purchasers for the joint award of one or more contracts.An order pool may also be formed, for the same purpose, between one or more purchasers and one or more legal persons governed by private law who are not purchasers, provided that each of the members of the pool applies the rules laid down in this Part to purchases made within the framework of the…
The agreement setting up the consortium, signed by its members, defines the operating rules of the consortium. It may entrust one or more of its members with the task of carrying out all or part of the procedure for awarding or performing the contract in the name and on behalf of the other members.The purchasers who are members of the consortium are jointly and severally liable only for the operations…
A grouping of orders may be formed with purchasers from other Member States of the European Union, provided that this choice has not been made with the aim of evading the application of national provisions affecting public policy. Notwithstanding the provisions of the second paragraph of article L. 2113-7, and subject to the stipulations of international agreements and administrative arrangements between the Member States to which they belong, the members…
Where purchasers have joined a common transnational entity, constituted in particular in the form of a European grouping for territorial cooperation, the statutes or a decision of the competent body of this entity shall determine the rules applicable to the contracts of this entity, which shall be:1° Either the law of the State in which its registered office is located;2° Or the law of the State in which it carries…
Contracts shall be awarded in separate lots, unless their subject matter does not allow separate services to be identified.The purchaser shall determine the number, size and subject matter of the lots.He may limit the number of lots for which a single economic operator may submit a tender or the number of lots that may be awarded to a single economic operator.
The purchaser may decide not to allot a contract in one of the following cases:1° It is not in a position to carry out the organisational, steering and coordination tasks itself;2° Awarding the contract in separate lots is likely to restrict competition or is likely to make it technically difficult or financially more costly to perform the services.Where a purchaser decides not to allocate the contract, it shall give reasons…
Contracts or lots of a contract may be reserved for adapted companies mentioned in article L. 5213-13 of the French Labour Code, establishments and services providing assistance through work mentioned in article L. 344-2 of the Code de l’action sociale et des familles and equivalent structures, where they employ a minimum proportion, set by regulation, of disabled workers who, due to the nature or severity of their impairments, are unable…
Contracts or parts of a contract may be reserved for structures for integration through economic activity mentioned in article L. 5132-4 of the Labour Code and equivalent structures, where they employ a minimum proportion, set by regulation, of disadvantaged workers.
Contracts or parts of a contract may be reserved for economic operators who carry them out as part of the production of goods and services that they provide in prisons and who, in accordance with the conditions set out in articles L. 412-10 to L. 412-18 of the Prison Code, employ prisoners in a minimum proportion set by regulation.
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