How to bid in this country: portals, deadlines, thresholds →
Offset printing and reprography work for the Loire-Bretagne water agency
Travaux d’impression Offset et de reprographie pour l’agence de l’Eau Loire- Bretagne — original title
Your path to submission
- Deadline: 16 November at 12:00 — 15 days left.
- The submission point is stated in the notice (link on this page).
- Offer and evidence in: French.
- Collect your evidence — the eligibility requirements are listed on this page; for many of them the analysis explains how to obtain them.
What the buyer is looking for
In order to carry out its tasks, the Loire-Bretagne water agency needs to commission an external contractor to carry out Offset printing and reprography. The framework agreement with a single contractor with purchase orders is divided into two lots. · For its publications, of which there is still a paper version, the agency needs to have its publications manufactured and therefore to subcontract offset and digital printing. · the needs come from various departments of the water agency, the main printing work comes from the secretariat of the basin bodies (management board and the basin committee).
Contract
Type of service
Clement What the numbers say about this buyer
- The median procedure drew 4 bids (98 procedures with a bid count); 10% ended with a single bidder. Sector: median 6 bids.n = 98
- 21% of this buyer's awards went to companies that had already won here before (304 awards since 2015, spread over 152 companies). 79% went to new names.n = 304 awards since 2015
- The award came in at a median 58% of the estimated value (7 awards with both estimate and value) — pricing at the estimate is usually too high here. Sector: 67%.n = 7
- 12% of awards went to companies from abroad (304 awards with a known winner country). Sector average: 6%.n = 304
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.
Selection criteria — in the procurement documents
The buyer states in the notice that the selection criteria are in the procurement documents (link on this page), not in the EU form. The document analysis below extracts them from there — bid and evidence in French.
Tender documents — direct download
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.
| Company | Awards | Period |
|---|---|---|
| AQUABIO | 8 | 2017–2023 |
| AQUASCOP Biologie | 8 | 2016–2023 |
| ANTEA FRANCE | 6 | 2020–2026 |
| GEO-HYD | 4 | 2016–2018 |
| Rive | 4 | 2017–2026 |
How often this buyer tenders this kind of work
Tactics
When this buyer has awarded in this sector, usually 19 or more bids came in. Many compete here — price and references decide. (Based on 3 completed awards — not a statement about this procedure.)
This procedure allows 34 days between publication and deadline — typical in this country is 32 (median of 12,485 procedures). A normal window for this market.
The deadline falls on a Monday — your last full working day is the Friday before. Have evidence and guarantees together by Thursday.
Foreign bidders
In France · Business services, 580 contracts went to foreign companies over the last 3 years (of 12,385 recorded awards) — mostly from Germany, Italy, Spain.
Submission language: French.
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.
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