Accuracy specifications, control and the deliverables a survey contract owes
A survey contract is defined by its accuracy statement, and everything else follows from it. The tender should state the required positional accuracy, the coordinate reference system and vertical datum, the ground sample distance for imagery, and the point density for laser scanning, because those parameters decide the equipment, the flying or occupation time and therefore the price. A bid quoted against an unstated accuracy is not comparable with anything, and buyers who leave it out receive a spread of prices that tells them nothing.
Control and verification are what separate a survey from a collection of measurements. Ground control points established and observed against a recognised network, independent check points not used in the adjustment, and a reported accuracy assessment against those checks are the evidence that the specification was met. For airborne and satellite work, weather windows, airspace permissions and in some jurisdictions restrictions on aerial imagery are genuine programme risks that a realistic bid acknowledges rather than assumes away.
Deliverables and rights need to be specified item by item. Point clouds, orthoimagery, digital terrain and surface models, vector features captured to a defined schema and the metadata describing all of it come in formats that determine whether the buyer can actually use them, and the licence determines whether it can publish or share them. Public buyers increasingly require full rights and open formats so the data can be reused across the organisation, and they specify the metadata standard, because a survey nobody can find or interpret in five years has been bought twice.
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 survey & mapping in France?
GlobalGov holds 265 survey & mapping records from 222 distinct buying organisations in France. The most frequent publishers are Conseil départemental Loire-Atlantique (4 records); Enedis (anciennement ERDF) (4 records); Métropole d'Aix-Marseille-Provence (3 records); Agence régionale de santé (ARS) (2 records); Bordeaux Métropole (2 records); Boucle Nord de Seine (2 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 6.4% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.
| Buying organisation | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Conseil départemental Loire-Atlantique | 4 | 1.5% |
| Enedis (anciennement ERDF) | 4 | 1.5% |
| Métropole d'Aix-Marseille-Provence | 3 | 1.1% |
| Agence régionale de santé (ARS) | 2 | 0.8% |
| Bordeaux Métropole | 2 | 0.8% |
| Boucle Nord de Seine | 2 | 0.8% |
What are survey & mapping contracts worth in France?
89 of the 265 records publish a contract value. The median is $436,320 and the largest single published value is $25.9M. By size, 12 under $100k, 51 between $100k and $1M, 22 between $1M and $10M, 4 above $10M. The remaining 176 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 | 12 | 13% |
| between $100k and $1M | 51 | 57% |
| between $1M and $10M | 22 | 25% |
| above $10M | 4 | 4.5% |
How long do bidders get to respond to survey & mapping tenders in France?
Across the 50 France survey & mapping notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 32 days. A quarter of them allowed 30 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 36. Short turnarounds are the exception rather than the rule here: only 1 (2.0%) closed within a fortnight of being published.
How often are survey & mapping tenders published in France?
France publishes about 5 notices a month in this category, 56 in the last twelve months. Over the last three years there were 63, spread across 72 separate months of activity since 22 June 2016. June is historically the busiest month. The most recent was published 8 September 2026.
How does France compare with other survey & mapping markets?
Among the 11 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable survey & mapping market, France ranks 3rd by number of records. The largest is United States (803 records against 265 here). Within France itself, survey & mapping is the 67th largest of the 86 procurement categories tracked here.
Where do the France survey & mapping records on this page come from?
These 265 records are collected from 2 official sources: TED (240), BOAMP (25). 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 Survey & Mapping tenders in France
Showing 6 of the 7 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 – Survey services – RD900 - Secteur Pritz - Etudes préalables environnementales
Annual survey on the feeling of safety on the TCL network - barometer and supplementary qualitative survey
France – Survey services – Missions d’accompagnement d’études pour la révision du Plan Local d’Urbanisme (PLU) et du Site Patrimonial Remarquable (SPR)
France – Survey services – Assistance à maîtrise d'ouvrage - communication, concertation, enquêtes publiques autour des projets routiers
France – Survey services – Accord-cadre relatif à une mission d'assistance à maitrise d'ouvrage pour l'accompagnement de la CASGBS sur la gestion des déchets, d'une part, et de l'eau, l'assainissement et les eaux pluviales, d'autre part
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