Section 4: Contracts carried out as part of experimental programmes

For the construction of works resulting from projects selected by the State as part of a national public research, testing and experimentation programme, the purchaser may award project management or works contracts for some of these works in order to verify their relevance.

These contracts are concluded following a competitive tendering procedure in accordance with the provisions of this book, limited to economic operators chosen from among those whose projects have been selected by the jury of the national public programme, after publication of a contract notice. An experimental protocol is signed between the purchaser and the public body responsible for the national programme.