#AGRS2614546AFrance Names Agriculture Ministry Procurement Lead and Creates Procurement Committee
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The order assigns a senior logistics and property official as the Agriculture Ministry’s procurement lead and creates a ministerial procurement committee. The committee will set and review the ministry’s purchasing policy, with attention to value for money, sustainable purchasing, access for small and medium-sized businesses, and innovation. The change mainly affects ministry departments, public procurement teams, and companies that bid for Agriculture Ministry contracts. Suppliers may see procurement priorities shaped more clearly around sustainability, SME access, and alignment with wider French state purchasing strategies.
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Key Changes
- Designates the ministry’s logistics and property sub-director as the ministerial procurement lead.
- Creates a ministerial procurement committee for the Agriculture Ministry.
- Sets the committee’s role in reviewing purchasing strategy, sustainability goals, SME access, innovation, and annual procurement performance.
Obligations
What this law requires
The sub-director for logistics and property within the financial, social and logistics affairs service must serve as the ministry procurement lead, assisted by the head of the public procurement and purchasing office.
The Ministry of Agriculture must establish a ministerial procurement committee responsible for defining and evaluating the ministry’s procurement policy.
The ministerial procurement committee must ensure that ministry purchases are made under the most economically advantageous conditions, respect social and environmental sustainable development objectives, facilitate broad access for SMEs to public procurement, and contribute to innovation diffusion.
The ministerial procurement committee must be informed of the objectives and orientations of French state procurement policy and of interministerial procurement strategies implemented by the State Purchasing Directorate.
The ministerial procurement committee must be consulted on the ministry’s procurement strategies and on annual or multiannual procurement orientations based on annual and multiannual public contract programming.