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Through its' service LEGAL CETA, the Cabinet Descriaux Avocats offers you help, support and proper monitoring for all stages of the application process for French public procurement contracts.

Our law firm created LEGAL CETA, a service dedicated to French public procurement, but we also offer personalized support for Canadian companies who would a french domiciliation.

In fact, given the complexity of the legal system and French proceedings, LEGAL CETA is available to help with the domicialiation process and with any issues encountered in French law.

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Step 1. Find the calls for tenders corresponding to your activity and benefit from our support to put a bid 

Public procurement courses

LEGAL CETA offers different training courses on the various issues and basics you need to know before you applying for public contracts.

 

  • Presentation of the CETA's legal framework and specific texts on public procurement
  • Detailed presentation on the thresholds for applying
  • Use of the Tenders Electronic Daily (TED) platform to research market opportunities
  • Identifying the documents and proofs expected
  • How to complete an application form
  • Presentation of different response strategies to various consultations and award procedures
  • Briefing on e-filing of applications and offers

 





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Support in the search of procurement contracts for goods, services, works

LEGAL CETA offers its support in the research of procurements for goods, services and works. We perform legal monitoring to detect procurement notices to which you could respond.

 

  • Collecting information about your company to identify business opportunities for you: determination of the comparative advantages, the commercial potential as well as the export project.
  • Selection of public procurement notices on TED (Tenders Electronic Daily) depending on the commercial sector, the contracting bodies and the thresholds.
  • Proposal of retained public procurement notices that match your criteria.
  • In-depth review of the Business Consultation Documents: legal analysis of the constituting documents of the contract to establish the criteria by which the contract is awarded and their weighting, the documents expected to prove your business’ technical and financial capacity to ensure that your company is able to tender for the selected call for tenders.
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Support during your application


LEGAL CETA provides support in order to secure and optimize your offer as much as possible, both strategically and legally.

 

  • Assistance in obtaining administrative documents relating to the public procurement procedure
  • First upstream analysis of business consultation documents in order to identify the risks and legal issues, and evaluate your chances of success in winning the contract
  • Support in the drafting of the application file and proofreading of your offer before its transmission to the public buyer
  • Securing and optimizing the offer
  • Assistance in negotiation meetings with public bodies
  • Check the conformity of tender calls to the rules of competitive tendering and publishing


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Step 2. Monitoring of your public contracts and representation in the event of difficulties


Support during the fulfilment of your contract

LEGAL CETA accompanies you throughout the execution phase of your public contracts so that your contractual relations are as peaceful as possible.

 

  • Assistance in the drafting of amendments
  • Support in decisions to renew installments
  • Advice during the procedure for drawing up the final general statement
  • Assistance in drafting execution claims of any kind
  • Advice and assistance in the event of a termination decision by the public buyer
  • Support during negotiations and subsequently drafting of agreement protocol
  • Determining the litigation or conciliation strategy to be implemented

 


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Defense of your interests in the event of conflicts

In the event of conflicts with your co-contractor, LEGAL CETA assists you and intervenes before the various competent bodies and represents you in the event of an amicable resolution of your disputes.

 

  • Emergency litigation proceedings against public procurement procedures (pre-contractual summary, contractual summary)
  • Appeal against validity or appeal "Tarn-et-Garonne"
  • Litigation between the parties to the contract
  • Recourse for excess of power against the regulatory clauses of the contract
  • Emergency procedure: suspension referral, appraisal referral
  • Liability of builders: expert appraisal, summary report, provisional summary, substantive complaint
  • Enforcement litigation: amendments, unforeseen technical constraints, litigation regarding the final general account
  • Non-jurisdictional settlement of disputes: transaction, advisory committee for amicable settlement of disputes, conciliation, arbitration
  • Compensation remedies: brief and complaint, compensation claims and compensation litigation before the courts


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*All our services are billed in canadian dollars and are fully exempted from VAT - art.262 1° of the General Tax Code

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