Subsection 1: Availability of consultation documents

The consultation documents are all the documents provided by the purchaser or to which he refers in order to define his need and to describe the details of the award procedure, including the notice of the call for competition. The information provided is sufficiently precise to enable economic operators to determine the nature and extent of the need and to decide whether or not to apply to take part in…

The consultation documents are made available to economic operators free of charge. For contracts that meet a need whose estimated value is equal to or greater than €40,000 excluding tax and whose procedure gives rise to the publication of a notice of call for competition, this provision is made on a buyer profile as from the publication of the notice of call for competition in accordance with the procedures laid…

The buyer profile is the dematerialisation platform enabling purchasers to make consultation documents available to economic operators electronically and to receive documents sent by candidates and tenderers electronically. An order issued by the Minister for the Economy and annexed to this code sets out the functions and minimum requirements for buyer profiles.

Where the call for competition is made by means of a prior information notice or a periodic indicative notice, access to the consultation documents on the buyer profile is offered from the date on which the invitation to confirm interest is sent.Where the call for competition is made by means of a notice on the existence of a qualification system, access to the consultation documents on the buyer profile is…

Where certain consultation documents are not published on the buyer profile for one of the reasons mentioned in articles R. 2132-12 and R. 2132-13, the purchaser shall indicate, in the notice of call for competition or the invitation to confirm interest, the means by which these documents may be obtained. Where certain consultation documents are not published on the buyer profile because the purchaser imposes requirements on economic operators in…

In the case of a formalised procedure, additional information on the consultation documents shall be sent to economic operators no later than six days before the deadline set for the receipt of tenders, provided that they have requested it in good time. Where the time limit for receipt of tenders is reduced for reasons of urgency pursuant to the provisions of Title VI, this time limit shall be four days.