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Section 3: Choice of the most economically advantageous tender

Article R2152-7 of the French Public procurement code

In order to award the contract to the tenderer or, where appropriate, to the tenderers who have submitted the most economically advantageous tender, the purchaser shall base himself: 1° Either on a single criterion which may be : a) Price, provided that the sole object of the contract is the purchase of standardised services or supplies whose quality cannot be varied from one economic operator to another; b) Cost, determined…

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Article R2152-9 of the French Public procurement code

Life cycle costing covers, insofar as they are relevant, all or some of the following costs in the life cycle of a product, service or work:1° Costs borne by the purchaser or other users, such as :a) Costs related to acquisition;b) Costs related to use, such as the consumption of energy and other resources;c) Maintenance costs;d) Costs related to end-of-life, such as collection and recycling costs;2° Costs attributed to environmental…

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Article R2152-10 of the French Public procurement code

Where the purchaser assesses costs using a life-cycle approach, it shall indicate in the tender documents the data to be provided by tenderers and the method it will use to determine the life-cycle cost on the basis of those data.The method used to assess the costs attributed to environmental externalities shall comply with all the following conditions:a) It shall be based on non-discriminatory and objectively verifiable criteria;b) It shall be…

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Article R2152-12 of the French Public procurement code

For contracts awarded in accordance with a formalised procedure, the award criteria shall be weighted or, where weighting is not possible for objective reasons, shall be indicated in descending order of importance. The weighting may be expressed as a range with an appropriate maximum deviation.

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