Planning of State purchases 2020-2023

The Department of State Purchasing (DAE) publishes the planning of purchases that departments will potentially be required to carry out over the period from end 2020 to the end of 2023, excluding defence or security purchases. This publication responds to the desire to develop and improve the dialogue between buyers and companies, as well as to simplify the access of companies to the state markets. It should allow them to better understand the potential purchasing needs of the State, to set up the necessary watch on the platform for dematerialisation of the State’s market procedures PLACE (by signing up for the email alert), to anticipate their participation in the opportunities that interest them. This publication does not constitute a pre-information notice as defined in Article 31 of Decree No. 2016-360, which purchasers of the State may also be required to publish. Moreover, the programming made available to undertakings is totally forecast and non-exhaustive, is by construction subject to changes and cannot in any way be binding for the State services concerned. The published programming covers more than 14 billion euros of potential public order from the state over the duration of the markets. It covers the purchases potentially planned by the State Purchasing Department, the 13 regional government purchasing platforms and all ministries. It shall indicate the subject of the proposed purchase, the tranche of the estimated amount and its duration, its organisational scope and the potential dates of publication of the consultation on PLACE and of notification.