Section 4: Dynamic acquisition system

In order to award a specific contract, the purchaser shall invite all candidates admitted to the dynamic purchasing system to submit a tender under the conditions set out in Articles R. 2144-8 and R. 2144-9. Where the system is subdivided into categories of products, services or works, the purchaser shall invite all candidates admitted for the category corresponding to the specific contract concerned.

The minimum time-limit for receipt of tenders shall be ten days from the date on which the invitation to tender is sent.However, contracting authorities other than the central public authorities listed in the notice annexed to this Code and contracting entities may set the time-limit for receipt of tenders by mutual agreement with the candidates invited to tender, provided that this date is the same for all.In the absence of…

The specific contract shall be awarded to the tenderer who has submitted the most economically advantageous tender on the basis of the award criteria set out in the contract notice or, where the call for competition is made by means of a prior information notice or a periodic indicative notice, in the invitation to confirm interest. These criteria may, where appropriate, be specified in the invitation to tender.