Title III: INITIATION OF THE PROCUREMENT PROCEDURE

Candidates or tenderers may send the purchaser a backup copy of the documents transmitted electronically in accordance with the conditions laid down by an order of the Minister for the Economy appended to this code. This copy can only be taken into consideration if it is received by the purchaser within the period prescribed for the submission of applications or tenders, as the case may be.

The purchaser is not obliged to use electronic means of communication in the following cases: 1° For the contracts mentioned in articles R. 2122-1 to R. 2122-11 and meeting a need whose estimated value is below the formal procedure thresholds; 2° For the contracts for social services and other specific services mentioned in 3° of article R. 2123-1 and in article R. 2123-2 ; 3° When, due to the particular…

Where the purchaser does not use electronic means of communication pursuant to article R. 2132-12, it shall indicate this in the call for tenders or, in the absence of such a notice, in the consultation documents. The reasons why other means of communication are used are indicated in the presentation report referred to in Articles R. 2184-1 to R. 2184-6 for contracting authorities and in the documents kept pursuant to…

The purchaser is deemed to offer other appropriate means of access in all of the following cases: 1° Where it offers free, unrestricted, full and direct access by electronic means to the tools and devices mentioned in the first paragraph of Article R. 2132-10 from the date of publication of the notice of the call for competition or from the date of dispatch of the invitation to confirm interest or,…