The purchaser may award a contract without prior publicity or competitive tendering when, due to compelling urgency resulting from external circumstances and which it could not foresee, it is not possible to comply with the minimum time limits required by the formalised procedures.
This is particularly the case for contracts made necessary for the urgent, compulsory execution of the work mentioned in article L. 1311-4 of the Public Health Code and Articles L. 184-1, L. 511-11, L. 511-15, L. 511-16 and L. 511-19 to L. 511-21 of the Building and Housing Code, as well as contracts awarded to deal with health hazards defined in 1° and 2° of Article L. 201-1 of the Rural and Maritime Fishing Code.
The contract is limited to the services strictly necessary to deal with the emergency situation.