Public procurement: neutralization of the advantage of the incumbent

In the latest issue, 1/2022 of the journal L’Entreprise et le Droit, Emmanuel van Nuffel d’Heynsbroeck discusses the neutralization of the advantage of the contractor in place in public procurement procedures.

His article takes as a starting point the critical case of a contracting authority having imposed on competing bidders a transitional service between the former and the new contract that the contractor in place does not have to bear. He maintains that the contracting authority cannot include in the comparison of tenders with the contractor in place a particular requirement which concretely benefits the latter, even if this requirement is necessary for the performance of the contract and represents a cost which the contracting authority will have to bear if he awards the contract to one of his competitors.

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