Friedrich & ClementBETA

How to bid in this country: portals, deadlines, thresholds →

Project management assistance mission for the modernisation of the 2022 model contract and the control of the public gas distribution concession

Mission d'assistance à la maîtrise d'ouvrage pour la modernisation du contrat au modèle 2022 et le contrôle de la concession de distribution publique de gaz — original title

FRFrance · Le MansBELOW THRESHOLD — NOT ON TED

Your path to submission

  1. Deadline: 26 November at 17:00 — 25 days left.
  2. The submission point is stated in the notice (link on this page). Submission via the buyer profile named in the notice (e.g. PLACE/Maximilien): free account required; a signature is usually only demanded from the winning bidder. Sort out account and signature first — not on submission day.
  3. Collect your evidence — the eligibility requirements are listed on this page; for many of them the analysis explains how to obtain them.
Compiled automatically from notice and documents — no guarantee; the procedure's wording is binding.

What the buyer is looking for

The current concession contract was awarded as of 1 January 2017 for a period of 30 years. It was awarded to GRDF. The concession contract covers the 16 municipalities of Le Mans Métropole served by gas: Aigné, Allonnes, Arnage, Champagné, La Chapelle Saint Aubin, Coulaines, Le Mans, La Milesse, Mulsanne, Pruillé-le-Chétif, Rouillon, Ruaudin, Saint-Georges-du-Bois, Saint Saturnin, Sargé-lès-le-Mans and Yvré-l'Evêque. The services are divided into three phases defined as follows: 1 Training of elected officials in the challenges of the territory 2 Transition to the 2022 model of the concession contract 3 Annual control of the concession - CRAC 2027 to 2030

Machine translation (EU eTranslation) — official wording via the PDF link.

Contract

TypeServices
Estimated valuenot published — common for below-threshold procedures
Published29 Oct 2026
ProcedureOUVERT
Place of performanceFRG04 - Sarthe, Le Mans 72000 Le Mans

Type of service

71 · Architecture & engineering
CPV 71318000

Clement What the numbers say about this buyer

  • In this sector the buyer awards roughly every month (59 awards, most recently October 2026) — the next award is due around November 2026 by that rhythm. The last award went to I S L INGENIERIE.n = 59
  • 20% of this buyer's awards went to companies that had already won here before (916 awards since 2016, spread over 361 companies). 80% went to new names.n = 916 awards since 2016
  • The award came in at a median 88% of the estimated value (67 awards with both estimate and value) — pricing at the estimate is usually too high here. Sector: 70%.n = 67
  • The median procedure drew 4 bids (884 procedures with a bid count); 20% ended with a single bidder. Sector: median 5 bids.n = 884
  • 57% of the bids received came from small and medium-sized enterprises (687 procedures with a bid mix). Sector: 81%.n = 687

From this buyer's documented awards; comparison values from the same sector and country. Not a forecast, not legal advice. As of 01/11/2026.

Clement
References and certificates from your home country count fully across the EU — that is what European procurement law is for.
The Russia sanctions declaration (Art. 5k) comes with nearly every procedure — a formality, but missing it means exclusion.

Tender documents — direct download

⤓
Annex
Specifications and annexes at the buyer — usually viewable without registration

Who has won at this buyer so far

Across all contract types of this buyer — not just this sector. A city buys software and fire engines through the same purchasing office.

CompanyAwardsPeriod
CENOVIA CITES62025–2026
GARCZYNSKI TRAPLOIR52024–2025
DEKRA INDUSTRIAL52024–2026
INEO ATLANTIQUE52024–2026
COLAS FRANCE ETABLISSEMENT DU MANS42024–2026
From the recorded awards · regular winners know this buyer's requirements — that is your competition.

How often this buyer tenders this kind of work

39
2024
32
2025
24
2026
95 procedures in this category since 2019. Public procurement repeats itself — those who know the rhythm prepare instead of reacting.
·
Deadline — Thursday 26 November at 17:00

Tactics

When this buyer has awarded in this sector, usually about 4 bids came in. A normal field for this market. (Based on 57 completed awards — not a statement about this procedure.)

This procedure allows 29 days between publication and deadline — typical in this country is 32 (median of 12,485 procedures). Much tighter than usual: the first week counts.

Foreign bidders

In France · Architecture & engineering, 1,026 contracts went to foreign companies over the last 3 years (of 25,498 recorded awards) — mostly from Germany, Spain, Italy.

Measured from linked award data; foreign winners bidding through a local subsidiary count as domestic — the true share is higher.

How to bid

Guide: how to apply on PLACE — Plateforme des achats de l'État (Frankreich) → Registration, signature, fees — from the operator's bidder manual.

Read the full notice — Original + documents
Goes directly to this tender on BOAMP / profil d'acheteur. The full specification and all annexes are there.
Put together the evidence
Certificates, references and your price — as set out in the notice.
Submit via BOAMP / profil d'acheteur before the deadline
Electronic submission — allow time for the portal registration the first time.
To the procurement portal →
We pull data from millions of notices. If the link here does not work, report it — we will find the right one.

Don't miss the next one

Friedrich finds tenders like this for you — every morning at 7:30, each one checked by Claude (Anthropic) for fit, and he learns from your feedback what your company really does.

Register now