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Legal News
Assigning a qualifying technical score is not illegal under certain conditions
TA Versailles, Ord.21 septembre 2020, Sté Atelier Jean-Baptiste Chapuis, n°2005666
Le juge du référé précontractuel du Tribunal administratif de Versailles rappelle qu’aucun texte, ni aucun principe n'interdit à un acheteur public de prévoir l'attribution d'une note technique éliminatoire dès lors que cette information a été portée à la connaissance de l'ensemble des candidats. Cela étant, en cas de contentieux, le niveau d’élimination peut faire l’objet d’un contrôle de la part du juge qui tiendra alors compte de la spécificité des prestations.
The Council of State establishes the right for a public purchaser to terminate an irregular contract
CE 10 juillet 2020, Sté Comptoir Négoce Equipements, req. n°430864
Dans cet arrêt, le Conseil d’Etat précise les conditions dans lesquelles un acheteur public peut résilier unilatéralement un contrat entaché d’irrégularité ainsi que les modalités d’indemnisation du cocontractant.
Le cabinet Palmier-Brault-Associés est très honoré d’être à l’origine de cette avancée jurisprudentielle !
What you must remember :
Point n°1 : La consécration textuelle du pourvoir de résiliation unilatérale pour motif d’intérêt général
Dans son arrêt du 10 juillet 2020, le Conseil d’Etat rappelle tout d’abord le principe jurisprudentiel selon lequel en vertu des règles générales applicables aux contrats administratifs, la personne publique cocontractante peut toujours, pour un motif d'intérêt général, résilier unilatéralement un tel contrat, sous réserve des droits à indemnité de son cocontractant (CE 2 mai1985, Distillerie de Magnac-Laval, Lebon,p.246).
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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An ousted candidate who has submitted an irregular offer may contest the award of the contract to an offer which is also irregular
CE May 27, 2020, Sté Clean Building, n ° 435982
The Council of State now considers that within the framework of a pre-contractual or contractual summary procedure, the fact that the offer of the ousted competitor is irregular does not prevent it from being able to take advantage of the irregularity of the offer of the company awarded the contract to obtain the cancellation of the procedure or the contract. In this hypothesis, the judge in summary proceedings cannot invoke the irregularity of the offer of the ousted candidate and must examine the regularity of the offer of the successful candidate.
