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French Public procurement codeIn force
Section 1: Automatic exclusions

Article L2141-2

Persons who have not made the declarations required of them in terms of tax or social security or who have not paid the taxes, levies, contributions or social security contributions due are excluded f…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Section 5: Portion of global contract performance reserved for small and medium-sized enterprises

Article L2171-8

…verall contract stipulates the minimum proportion of the contract performance that the contractor undertakes to entrust to small and medium-sized enterprises or craftsmen. This minimum share is establ…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Chapter II: Contracting entities

Article L1212-3

…owing are network operator activities: 1° The provision, operation or supply of fixed networks intended to provide a service to the public for the production, transport or distribution of: a) Gas or h…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Chapter II: Contracting entities

Article L1212-4

The following are not network operator activities: 1° The supply of gas or heat to networks intended to provide a service to the public by a public undertaking or a body governed by private law that e…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Title II: ECONOMIC OPERATORS, APPLICANTS AND BIDDERS

Article L1220-3

A tenderer is an economic operator who submits a bid as part of a procedure for awarding a public procurement contract.

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Chapter II: Contracts comprising inseparable services

Article L1322-1

Where a purchaser concludes a single contract relating to objectively indissociable services which are subject, on the one hand, to the ordinary law of contracts provided for in Book I of Part Two or…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Single chapter.

Article L1471-1

Subject to the adaptations provided for in this Title, the following provisions shall apply in New Caledonia to public contracts and concession contracts concluded by the State or its public establish…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Section 1: General rules

Article L2112-3

…re the subject of the contract, in any respect whatsoever and at any stage of their life cycle, are deemed to be linked to the subject of the contract. In particular, they may relate to a specific pro…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Section 1: Call for tenders

Article L2124-2

An open or restricted invitation to tender is a procedure whereby the purchaser selects the most economically advantageous tender, without negotiation, on the basis of objective criteria made known to…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Section 1: Automatic exclusions

Article L2141-6

…rchaser may, by way of exception, authorise an economic operator who is in a case of exclusion provided for in this Section to participate in the procedure for the award of a contract, provided that t…

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