When the performance of a defence or security contract involves, requires or includes information or media protected or classified in the interests of national security, the purchaser shall request, in the consultation documents, that the tenderer’s offer include:
1° An undertaking to preserve, at the level of protection required by the contract, and in accordance with the provisions laid down by the Prime Ministerial Order referred to in Article R. 2300-1, the confidentiality of all protected or classified information and media in its possession, or of which it may become aware throughout the performance of the contract and after termination or expiry of the contract;
2° An undertaking to obtain the same undertaking from the subcontractors identified at the time of notification of the contract and from those it may call upon during its performance;
3° Information about the subcontractors identified, sufficient to enable a determination to be made as to whether each of them has the capacity required to preserve in an appropriate manner the confidentiality of the classified or protected information and media to which it has access during the consultation or which it will be required to produce in the course of its contract with the contractor. This information must enable the purchaser to ensure, where appropriate, that the operators have or are likely to have the requisite clearance;
4° An undertaking to provide information about the subcontractors it will call upon during the performance of the contract, before awarding them a contract for the purpose of performing part of this contract. This information must be sufficient to make it possible to determine whether each subcontractor has the capacity required to adequately safeguard the confidentiality of classified or protected information and material which it will be required to produce in the course of its contract with the contract holder. They must enable the purchaser to ensure, where appropriate, that the operators have or are likely to have the requisite authorisations.