Section 1: Call for tenders

The minimum time limits for receipt of applications are:1° For contracting authorities, thirty days from the date of dispatch of the contract notice or, where the call for competition is made by means of a prior information notice, from the date of dispatch of the invitation to confirm interest.Where a duly justified emergency makes it impossible to comply with this minimum time limit, the contracting authority may set a time…

For contracting authorities, the minimum time limit for receipt of tenders is thirty days from the date of dispatch of the invitation to tender.

The minimum period laid down in Article R. 2161-7 may be reduced: 1° To ten days if the contracting authority has published a prior information notice which has not been used as a call for tenders and where this notice meets the following conditions: a) It was sent for publication at least thirty-five days and at most twelve months before the date on which the contract notice was sent; b)…

A contracting authority other than a central public authority listed in a notice annexed to this Code may set the deadline for receipt of tenders by mutual agreement with the selected candidates, provided that this date is the same for all. In the absence of agreement, it shall set a deadline which may not be less than ten days from the date of dispatch of the invitation to tender.

A contracting entity may set the closing date for receipt of tenders by mutual agreement with the selected candidates, provided that this date is the same for all. In the absence of agreement, it shall set a time limit which may not be less than ten days from the date of dispatch of the invitation to tender.

The buyer cannot negotiate with tenderers. He can only ask them to specify the content of their offer.