Section 2: Commitments of the private project manager

The public works contract specifies the procedures for determining the estimated cost of the works, together with a tolerance threshold, to which the project manager is committed, and the consequences for the project manager of the commitments made.

Where the assignment entrusted to the project manager includes assisting the project owner with the award of public works contracts, the public works contract must include an undertaking by the contractor to comply with the estimated cost of the works, as determined at the latest before the launch of the procedure for awarding public works contracts. Compliance with this undertaking is checked after the economic operators responsible for the works…

When the task entrusted to the project manager includes, in addition to assisting the project owner in awarding public works contracts, supervising the performance of public works contracts and assisting the project owner during acceptance operations, the public works contract includes an undertaking by the contractor to comply with the cost, together with a new tolerance threshold, resulting from the public works contracts awarded by the project owner. Compliance with…

The public works contract may not provide for the undertakings mentioned in articles R. 2432-3 and R. 2432-4, if it is established that some of the technical data required to give such undertakings cannot be known at the time when these undertakings should be given.