Article R2322-3 of the French Public procurement code
The purchaser may award a contract without prior advertising or competitive tendering when the conditions for awarding the contract are not compatible with the minimum emergency periods provided for in articles R. 2361-2 and R. 2361-6 in the restricted invitation to tender procedure or in article R. 2361-8 in the procedure with negotiation, because it is concluded in order to deal with an emergency resulting from a crisis in France…