supplier source map
Find French public tenders you can pursue
For sales and bid teams targeting France: choose the official source, find the complete documents, and check whether the lot and response conditions fit your business before committing bid time.
Official guidance checked 13 September 2026. Editorial owner: Antoine Simon. Next review: 13 December 2026, or sooner after a rule or portal change.
Choose a source for the job
An announcement service, a bid-submission platform and a historical contract dataset answer different questions. Keep the source URL, buyer, procurement reference and lot together.
| Source | Use it for | Check before relying on it |
|---|---|---|
| BOAMP | Discover published contract notices and award announcements. | Open the notice and follow its buyer-profile link for the complete consultation. |
| PLACE | Find and respond to State purchasing consultations. | The State purchasing platform is national, not a Paris-only or Île-de-France portal. |
| Buyer profile | Obtain the dossier de consultation, questions, amendments and submission instructions. | Follow the platform designated by the buyer; a local authority may use another service. |
| TED | Search EU-level notices across countries using common classifications. | It is not a complete inventory of French smaller purchases. |
| DECP | Research published contract, supplier and modification data. | Award and execution data are not a list of open tenders; preserve identifiers and value definitions. |
The official notice-finding guide explains publication channels. PLACE's own service description identifies it as the State purchasing platform. Follow each consultation's designated route for documents and response.
Build a shortlist with buyer, location and scope
Start with named public buyers and the locations your team can serve. Search the relevant CPV codes alongside French service terms. Review the specification when a broad classification hides a different deliverable. Separate open tenders, early market signals and historical awards.
Illustrative example: a maintenance supplier serving Lyon searches for entretien and maintenance alongside its equipment categories. A national buyer may publish a suitable Lyon lot, while a Lyon-based buyer may require nationwide response times. The delivery sites and lot conditions decide fit, not the buyer's postal address.
Save the notice reference and lot; open the buyer profile; download the current documents; register for the consultation's communications where offered. Assign one person to check clarifications and amendments. A second publication on TED or BOAMP may concern the same procurement, not another lead.
For broader market-entry context, use the France supplier playbook. For research methodology, continue to the French procurement market guide.
Thresholds: distinguish exemption, advertising and formal procedure
As checked in September 2026, article R2122-8 permits purchases without prior advertising or competition below €60,000 excluding VAT for supplies and services, and below €100,000 excluding VAT for works, subject to its conditions. These are not thresholds above which every purchase must use a formal procedure.
Below the relevant EU formal-procedure threshold, an adapted procedure (MAPA) may apply. Advertising rules vary with value, buyer and contract type. Use the official publication-threshold guiderather than treating BOAMP, TED and buyer-profile publication as interchangeable obligations.
| Main category | 2026–2027 formal-procedure threshold |
|---|---|
| Ordinary supplies/services: central public authorities | €140,000 excluding VAT |
| Ordinary supplies/services: other contracting authorities | €216,000 excluding VAT |
| Supplies/services: utilities contracting entities | €432,000 excluding VAT |
| Works and concessions | €5,404,000 excluding VAT |
Source: DAJ 2026 threshold notice. This summary covers the main categories, not every special regime. Social services, defence, exceptions and valuation rules require their own checks. Read the applicable notice and documents.
Four checks before you assign a bid writer
Can we enter?
Read the règlement de consultation: lot access, selection evidence, references, financial requirements, consortium or subcontracting rules, and any framework restrictions.
Can we deliver?
Read the technical specification (CCTP): sites, service levels, staffing, quantities, implementation dates and dependencies. Keep buyer headquarters separate from delivery location.
Can we price the risk?
Check the administrative terms (CCAP), price schedule, evaluation method, options, penalties and liability. A framework maximum is not guaranteed revenue.
Can we submit correctly?
Record the question and submission deadlines, accepted language, required files, signing instructions and authorized user. Test access and upload on the actual response platform.
Save a decision of pursue, clarify, partner, monitor or reject, with an owner and reason. Record missing information explicitly. The notice-reading workflowhelps turn the documents into a qualification record.
Use awards to understand the buyer
DECP describes published contracts and their execution, including modifications. Compare the contract identifier, buyer, supplier, date and amount definition before aggregating records. A change record is not necessarily a new award; an end date is not a confirmed renewal tender. The official DECP dataset explains its validation scope and links to data that fail its main format checks. A count of validated records cannot establish complete procurement coverage.
Check Duke against the French buyers you need
Bring a buyer list and several known notices to a demonstration. Compare source links, lots, deadlines and amendments with the official records.
This source map does not certify Duke's current coverage of every French platform, attachment or update. Ask which sources and workflow steps can be demonstrated for your market; retain official-source checks for anything not shown.