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Article L2125-1 of the French Public procurement code

The purchaser may, in compliance with the rules applicable to the procedures defined in this Title, use purchasing techniques to pre-select economic operators likely to meet its needs or to enable tenders to be submitted or selected in accordance with specific procedures. The purchasing techniques are as follows: 1° Framework agreements, which enable one or more economic operators to be pre-selected with a view to concluding a contract laying down…

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Article L2131-1 of the French Public procurement code

In order to encourage the widest possible competition, purchasers shall advertise prior to the award of the contract in accordance with the conditions and subject to the exceptions defined by decree in the Conseil d’Etat, depending on the subject of the contract, the estimated value of the requirement excluding tax and the purchaser concerned.

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Article L2132-1 of the French Public procurement code

The purchaser may not disclose confidential information of which he has become aware during the course of the procurement procedure, such as information the disclosure of which would infringe business secrecy or information the disclosure of which could harm fair competition between economic operators, such as the disclosure during the course of the consultation of the total amount or the detailed price of tenders.However, the purchaser may ask economic operators…

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Article L2141-1 of the French Public procurement code

Persons who have been the subject of a final conviction for one of the offences referred to in articles 222-34 to 222-40,225-4-1,225-4-7,313-1,313-3,314-1,324-1,324-5,324-6,421-1 to 421-2-4,421-5,432-10,432-11,432-12 to 432-16,433-1,433-2,434-9,434-9-1,435-3, 435-4, 435-9, 435-10, 441-1 to 441-7, 441-9, 445-1 to 445-2-1 or 450-1 of the French Criminal Code, articles 1741 to 1743, 1746 or 1747 of the French General Tax Code, or for receiving such offences, as well as for equivalent offences under the legislation…

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Article L2141-2 of the French Public procurement code

Persons who have not made the declarations required of them in terms of tax or social security or who have not paid the taxes, levies, contributions or social security contributions due are excluded from the contract award procedure. The list of these taxes, levies, contributions or social security contributions is set by an order of the Minister for the Economy appended to this code.This exclusion does not apply to persons…

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Article L2141-3 of the French Public procurement code

The following persons are excluded from the contract award procedure: 1° Subject to the compulsory liquidation procedure provided for in Article L. 640-1 of the French Commercial Code or subject to an equivalent procedure governed by foreign law; 2° Who, on the date on which the purchaser decides whether their application is admissible, are subject to a personal bankruptcy order or a management ban pursuant to articles L. 653-1 to…

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Article L2141-4 of the French Public procurement code

Persons are excluded from the contract award procedure if: 1° They have been sanctioned for failure to comply with the obligations set out in Articles L. 8221-1, L. 8221-3, L. 8221-5, L. 8231-1, L. 8241-1, L. 8251-1 and L. 8251-2 of the Labour Code or have been convicted under Article L. 1146-1 of the same Code or Article 225-1 of the Criminal Code; 2° On 31 December of the year…

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Article L2141-6 of the French Public procurement code

The purchaser may, by way of exception, authorise an economic operator who is in a case of exclusion provided for in this Section to participate in the procedure for the award of a contract, provided that this is justified by overriding reasons relating to the public interest, that the contract in question may be awarded only to that economic operator and that a final judgment of a court of a…

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