Purchasers may conclude a defence or security contract at provisional prices only in the following cases:
1° When, in the case of complex services or services using a new technique and either of an imperative urgent nature or resulting from an emergency crisis situation, or involving major technical contingencies, performance of the contract must begin while it is not yet possible to determine a definitive initial price;
2° When the results of a costing survey relating to comparable services ordered from the holder of a previous contract are not yet known;
3° When the prices of the final instalments of a contract with instalments are fixed in the light of the results, not yet known, of a costing survey relating to the first instalments, concluded at definitive prices;
4° When the definitive prices of comparable services which were the subject of previous contracts are called into question by the prospective candidate or by the purchaser, provided that the latter does not have the technical or accounting information to enable him to negotiate new definitive prices;
5° When the services are the subject of an innovation partnership or make use mainly of innovative or evolving technologies that do not allow the contract to be concluded at a definitive price;
6° When the results of the competitive tendering procedure for part of the contract that the contractor plans to award to a sub-contractor are not yet known at the time the contract is concluded.