Pre-contractual & Contractual referral

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.

CE 20 September 2019, Territorial Collectivity of Corsica, n ° 421075

The Council of State recalls that an offer that does not include all the documents or information required by the documents of the consultation is irregular and must be eliminated. The consultation rules may also be that for the rating of a criterion, an offer that does not contain certain information may be awarded a score of zero.

Teaching n ° 1: An offer that does not respect a mandatory prescription of the regulation of the consultation is irregular

The texts and the case law recall the mandatory nature of the consultation rules

CE 18 September 2019, Community of communes of Ile-Rousse-Balagne, req. No. 430368

The Council of State reiterates the conditions under which a local authority or a public cooperative institution may apply for the award of a public contract and the scope of the judge's review of the summary proceedings in the event of a dispute with the from a competitor who has been ousted.

Teaching n ° 1: a public institution can be a candidate for the signature of a contract subject to the respect of the principle of specialty

The Council of State has already had occasion to recall that the public persons can be candidates for the attribution of a contract of the public order, in the same way and under the same conditions as a private enterprise (EC, opinion , 8 November 2000, Jean-Louis Bernard Consultants, Rec., 492).

EC, 12 June 2019, Ministry of the Armed Forces, req. No. 427 397

In connection with the signing of a framework agreement with purchase orders, an unsuccessful candidate obtained from the Toulon Administrative Court the cancellation of the procedure on the grounds in particular of the absence of a maximum amount previously set by the buyer. . This order was annulled by the Council of State and is the subject of our comment.

Teaching n ° 1: the pre-contractual summary for the security and defense markets is not that of Article L. 551-1 of the Code of Administrative Justice

If it is customary to always associate the provisions of Article L. 551-1 of the Code of Administrative Justice with the pre-contractual summary, we must not lose sight of the II of Article L. 551-2 the same code. In fact, for contracts relating to defense or security matters, the unsuccessful candidate must refer the case to the pre-contractual judge on the basis of the provisions of Articles L. 551-6 and L. 551-7 of the Administrative Justice Code. .

CE Mar. 13, 2019, Sté Sepur, req.no. 425191

In this case, the Conseil d'Etat considers that the abnormally low price of an offer is assessed in relation to its overall price and the mere fact of proposing a financial offer that refrains from charging certain services is not sufficient. in itself to consider the offer as abnormally low.

Teaching n ° 1:

Whatever the procurement procedure and the type of contract, it is the responsibility of the contracting authority, who finds that an offer appears abnormally low, to request from the author all the details and justifications that would explain the price proposed in application of Article 60-I of Decree No. 2016-360 of 25 March 2016 on public procurement. If the clarifications and justifications provided are not sufficient to ensure that the proposed price is not regarded as clearly undervalued and thus likely to compromise the proper performance of the contract, it is then up to the bidder to reject his bid, except undermine the equality of candidates for the award of a public contract.

CE 25 January 2019, BEAH, No. 423159

The Conseil d'Etat considers that, pursuant to Article L127-6 of the French Insurance Code, the clause inserted in a public contract of civil liability insurance whereby the insurer undertakes to take charge of the defense or representation of his insured person in any judicial or administrative proceedings, where such care is exercised at the same time in his own interest, does not constitute a legal protection insurance clause.

THIS January 25, 2019, Dauphin Telecom Company, No. 421844

The Council of State lays down the rule according to which the offer of the company whose plan of judiciary judicial reorganization foresees a duration of clearance of the liabilities lower than the duration of the market can not be excluded from the procedure of auction .

The Council of State also specifies that in the context of a competitive procedure with negotiation, in the event that the buyer has not limited the number of candidates admitted to participate in the procedure, the verification of the prohibitions to tender can intervene at any time and at the latest before awarding the contract to the only candidate to whom the buyer intends to award the contract.

CE 12 September 2018, Mixed Household Waste Syndicate of the Chevreuse Valley, n ° 420454

The sanction of the break of equality between the candidates is not sanctioned in the same way as it results from the behavior of the public purchaser or a candidate

The public purchaser who implements a competitive tendering procedure in order to award a contract must ensure respect for the principle of equality between candidates. The judge of the pre-contractual injunction must annul the procedure if he raises a cause affecting the impartiality of the purchaser or if he notes a break of equality between the candidates because of the information privileged which benefited one of them. In the first case, doubt is enough to bring about the annulment, while in the second, the break in equality must be established.

CE 12 September 2018, Department of Haute-Garonne, n ° 420585

This case provides an opportunity to recall the conditions under which a public purchaser may regularly use the criterion of geographical location as a criterion for judging offers.

The department of Haute-Garonne has launched a consultation for the signing of a framework agreement of 18 lots for the acquisition of documents on all media and associated services, for the benefit of the departmental media library. The consultation rules provided for three criteria for the judging of tenders, weighted on a total of 100 points, ie 70 points attributed to the quality of the service, 20 points attributed to the discount rate on public prices and 10 points attributed to the costs generated by execution of the framework agreement and supported by the departmental media library for the travel of its representatives to the holders.

TA Amiens, September 13, 2018, Sté DECAUX France, n ° 1603075

In this case won by the Cabinet Palmier-Brault Associés on behalf of the company Philippe Védiaud Publicité, the Administrative Court of Amiens confirms the solution made by the Council of State in its judgment of May 25, 2018, Sté Philippe Védiaud Publicité, 416825, according to which the remuneration of the owner of a street furniture contract via the sole collection of advertising revenues is sufficient to qualify a service concession contract.