Environmental Assessment Government Tenders in France

Impact assessment, its statutory timetable and who is allowed to write it

An environmental impact assessment is a statutory process with a prescribed sequence, and the procurement has to fit inside it. Screening establishes whether a formal assessment is required at all; scoping settles which effects will be examined and to what depth, usually in consultation with the regulator; the assessment itself gathers baseline data and predicts effects; and the resulting statement is published and consulted on. Each stage has a consultation period nobody can compress, so a bid whose programme omits them is not credible.

Baseline surveys are the immovable constraint. Ecological, noise, air quality and hydrological baselines can only be gathered in particular seasons or over particular durations, and a survey done outside its valid window will be challenged. Competent expert requirements apply: many jurisdictions require the assessment to be prepared by suitably qualified people and to say who they were, so the bid names specialists per topic rather than offering a firm.

The commercial risk sits after submission. Regulator and consultee requests for further information, and in contested cases a public inquiry or hearing, extend the work well beyond the statement, and expert witness attendance is a separate and expensive commitment. Tenders should be read for whether that is included, capped or excluded. Independence matters too: an assessment written by a consultant with an interest in the project proceeding is vulnerable to challenge on exactly that ground, which is why conflict declarations in this category cover the wider group and not only the team.

This section describes how this category is bought generally, across the public buyers that publish it. The figures elsewhere on this page are measured for this market alone.

Who buys environmental assessment in France?

GlobalGov holds 174 environmental assessment records from 149 distinct buying organisations in France. The most frequent publishers are Conservatoire d'espaces naturels de Nouvelle-Aquitaine (4 records); Département De L'isère (4 records); Agence Publique Pour L'immobilier De La Justice (3 records); Conseil Départemental Du Nord (3 records); Grenoble Alpes Metropole (3 records); Ville De Nantes (3 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 11% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.

What are environmental assessment contracts worth in France?

68 of the 174 records publish a contract value. The median is $432,000 and the largest single published value is $7.8M. By size, 15 under $100k, 34 between $100k and $1M, 19 between $1M and $10M. The remaining 106 publish no value at all, so every figure here describes the priced subset only, and values are as stated by the buyer rather than as finally awarded.

How long do bidders get to respond to environmental assessment tenders in France?

Across the 104 France environmental assessment notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 33 days. A quarter of them allowed 30 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 39. Not one of them closed within a fortnight of being published, so the window on this market is consistently workable.

How often are environmental assessment tenders published in France?

France publishes about 9 notices a month in this category, 104 in the last twelve months. That is 333% more than the 24 published in the twelve months before that. Over the last three years there were 173, spread across 16 separate months of activity since 27 September 2022. February is historically the busiest month. No new notice has been published in this category since 30 April 2026, 154 days ago, so treat the figures above as a record of the market rather than as this week's pipeline.

How does France compare with other environmental assessment markets?

Among the 9 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable environmental assessment market, France ranks 4th by number of records. The largest is United States (1,115 records against 174 here). Within France itself, environmental assessment is the 72nd largest of the 86 procurement categories tracked here.

Where do the France environmental assessment records on this page come from?

These 174 records are collected from 2 official sources: BOAMP (136), TED (38). GlobalGov is an independent aggregator and is not affiliated with any of them; each record links back to the notice on its issuing portal. The set is rebuilt nightly, and the counts on this page were taken on 2026-10-01.

Most recent Environmental Assessment tenders in France

None of these are open for bids now — they are the most recent records GlobalGov holds for this market, kept here so the shape of a typical environmental assessment notice in France is visible. Set an alert to be told when the next one opens.

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