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New Juridical Precisions on the Definition of an Irregular Offer
CE 4 October 2019, SMIDDEV, req. No. 421022
The Council of State clarifies the scope of the incomplete nature of an offer by considering that an offer of a candidate who does not include a prefectural approval necessary for the performance of the services of the market but not required by the regulation the consultation does not allow to declare the offer irregular.
Subcontractor: from when a request for direct payment to the client is no longer admissible?
CE December 2, 2019, Sté FIDES, req.n ° 425204
In this case, the Council of State provides useful procedural details on the stage from which the subcontractor loses its right to direct payment for the services provided to the contracting authority. To benefit from the right to direct payment by the contracting authority for the services which it has carried out within the framework of the performance of the contract, the approved subcontractor must submit its request for direct payment to the contracting authority before notification of the contract statement to the holder.
The impossibility of the contracting party to request the nullity of his own contract!
In that case, the Conseil d'État recalls that the fairness of the contractual relations precludes a co-contracting party from availing itself of the irregularities that it may have committed to claim the nullity of its own contract and to release itself from its contractual obligations.
Teaching n ° 1: No one can invoke his own turpitude to question his contract
In its judgment of 28 December 2009, Beziers I ", The Council of State has already had the opportunity to recall in his famous decision" Beziers I " than " the irregularities on which the parties rely are those which, having regard to the requirement of fair contractual relations, may be invoked before it (CE Ass 28 December 2009, application No. 304802)
On the responsibility of public accountants in matters of public procurement control
CE December 6, 2019, Minister of Action and Public Accounts, req.n ° 425542
In this case, the Council of State recalls the basis of the responsibility of public accountants in matters of control of public contracts and the procedures for assessing the existence of any financial loss linked to control failures
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The evolution of third party access to the courtroom of the contract judge: what a paradox!
After more than a century, it is tempting to assert that the Martin jurisprudence (EC, 4 August 1905: Rec., EC 1905, pp. 749, J. Romieu) is dead and well buried. In the same vein, a slightly naive view of the state of the contentious administrative contracts would necessarily lead to welcoming the massive opening of legal remedies relevant to all third parties. However, five years after the highest administrative court opened the courtroom access of the judge of the validity of the administrative contract "to any third party" (EC, Ass., April 4, 2014, Department of Tarn-et-Garonne, Rec. ., EC, p.70, conclude B. Dacosta, AJDA, 2014, p.1035, A. Bretonneau and J. Lessi, BCJL 2014, p.316, note C. Fardet, CMP 2013, study 5, Ph. Rees, JCP G, 2014, Doc 732, P. Bourdon, RDP, 2014, P. 1175, note L. Janicot and J.-F. Lafaix, RFDA, 2014, P. 425, conclusion and note P. Delvolvé) it is up to us to take a critical look at the evolution of the litigation of third-party claimants. It is customary to say that "to know where we are going, we need to know where we come from", the study of third party access to the courtroom is obviously no exception.
