Permits, monitoring and the evidence an environmental contractor has to produce
Environmental services are bought under a regulatory regime the buyer cannot delegate. Remediation, contaminated land treatment, ecological mitigation, emissions and discharge monitoring and habitat management are all activities that require permits, licences or consents held by specific people or sites, and the contract makes the supplier responsible for holding them while leaving the buyer liable for the land or the discharge. Verification of those permits against the actual scope is a routine part of evaluation.
The deliverable is usually evidence rather than an outcome you can see. Sampling plans with defined locations and frequencies, accredited laboratory analysis, chain of custody, calibration records for field instruments and reporting in a format a regulator will accept are the substance of the contract. Where a supplier both carries out works and verifies them, buyers commonly split the roles, because self-verified remediation is not evidence that will survive a regulator's question.
Ecological work is governed by seasons and by protected species rather than by programme. Surveys can only be done in defined windows, licences for work affecting protected species take time to obtain and impose method statements, and clearance cannot proceed until a survey is valid. Mitigation and compensation frequently carry aftercare obligations measured in years, with a defined success criterion and a liability to replace failures. A bid that prices the intervention and not the monitoring and aftercare period has priced a fraction of the contract.
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 services in France?
GlobalGov holds 241 environmental services records from 212 distinct buying organisations in France. The most frequent publishers are Ademe (3 records); Agence Publique Pour L'immobilier De La Justice (3 records); Agence de l'eau RM&C (3 records); Agence de l'eau Rhône Méditerranée Corse (2 records); Bordeaux Métropole (2 records); Communauté D'agglomération Du Boulonnais (2 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 6.2% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.
| Buying organisation | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Ademe | 3 | 1.2% |
| Agence Publique Pour L'immobilier De La Justice | 3 | 1.2% |
| Agence de l'eau RM&C | 3 | 1.2% |
| Agence de l'eau Rhône Méditerranée Corse | 2 | 0.8% |
| Bordeaux Métropole | 2 | 0.8% |
| Communauté D'agglomération Du Boulonnais | 2 | 0.8% |
What are environmental services contracts worth in France?
93 of the 241 records publish a contract value. The median is $502,200 and the largest single published value is $78.3M. By size, 7 under $100k, 52 between $100k and $1M, 30 between $1M and $10M, 4 above $10M. The remaining 148 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.
| Contract size | Records | Share of priced |
|---|---|---|
| under $100k | 7 | 7.5% |
| between $100k and $1M | 52 | 56% |
| between $1M and $10M | 30 | 32% |
| above $10M | 4 | 4.3% |
How long do bidders get to respond to environmental services tenders in France?
Across the 101 France environmental services 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 40. Short turnarounds are the exception rather than the rule here: only 5 (5.0%) closed within a fortnight of being published.
How often are environmental services tenders published in France?
France publishes about 11 notices a month in this category, 127 in the last twelve months. Over the last three years there were 133, spread across 50 separate months of activity since 15 June 2016. March is historically the busiest month. The most recent was published 8 September 2026.
How does France compare with other environmental services markets?
Among the 20 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable environmental services market, France ranks 4th by number of records. The largest is United States (1,269 records against 241 here). Within France itself, environmental services is the 69th largest of the 86 procurement categories tracked here.
Where do the France environmental services records on this page come from?
These 241 records are collected from 2 official sources: TED (154), BOAMP (87). 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.
Open Environmental Services tenders in France
Showing 10 of the 19 notices open in this category today. Openness uses the same definition as the France market page: active, not marked awarded, cancelled, closed or expired, and either closing in the future or published within the last 90 days with no stated closing date.
France – Environmental information systems – Mise en place d'un système intégré de monitoring océanographique et météorologique destiné au commandement portuaire et au programme environnemental du GPMG - Relance
Project management services for the remediation of the former "KME"—TREFIMETAUX site in the municipality of Sérifontaine
France – Environmental engineering consultancy services – Assistance à Maîtrise d'Ouvrage et conduite d'une opération d'aménagement complexe à Niffer et Petit-Landau (68)
Specialized cleaning, pollution removal, and decontamination services at the Eiffel Tower
Pritz sector - preliminary environmental studies
France – Environmental engineering consultancy services – Mission d'assistance à maîtrise d'ouvrage pour la mise en place et le suivi d'un plan d'action agricole
Initial assessments of farms and individual support within the framework of the payment for environmental services (PES) project on the right bank of the Rhône
France – Environmental services – Réalisation d’analyses environnementales sur des échantillons d’eaux résiduaires et de boues d’origine domestique et industrielle, ainsi que d’audits de laboratoires sur les bassins Rhône Méditerranée et Corse
France – Environmental issues consultancy services – Prestations environnementales relatives aux travaux autoroutiers de maintenance (inventaires, dossiers règlementaires et contrôles)
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