Section 2: Payment of the subcontractor

The threshold provided for in Article L. 2193-10 above which a subcontractor who has been accepted and whose terms of payment have been approved is paid directly by the purchaser is set at 600 euros inclusive of all taxes. With regard to service, works or supply contracts requiring installation work or including services, awarded by the defence services, in particular contracts for the creation of prototypes, manufacture, assembly, testing, repairs…

The subcontractor entitled to direct payment shall send his request for payment to the contract holder, by any means that enables receipt and date to be determined, or deposit it with the contract holder in return for a receipt.

The holder has a period of fifteen days from the date of receipt or the acknowledgement of receipt mentioned in article R. 2193-11 to give his agreement or notify a refusal, on the one hand, to the subcontractor and, on the other hand, to the purchaser.

Once the period referred to in article R. 2193-12 has elapsed, the contractor is deemed to have accepted those supporting documents or parts of supporting documents which he has not expressly accepted or refused.

When the subcontractor has obtained proof or a receipt certifying that the holder has indeed received the request for payment under the conditions set out in article R. 2193-11 or that he has the postal notice certifying that the envelope has been refused or has not been collected by the holder, the subcontractor shall send his request for payment to the purchaser accompanied by this proof, the receipt or the…

The purchaser shall inform the holder of the payments it makes to the subcontractor.

When the subcontractor uses the public invoicing portal mentioned in article L. 2192-5, he submits his request for payment there without any further formality. The contractor has fifteen days from the date of this submission to accept or refuse the request for payment on this portal.