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Marché de travaux privés

English translation: private-sector (construction) contracts

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French term or phrase:Marché de travaux privés
English translation:private-sector (construction) contracts
Entered by: Vanessa Lindsey

12:46 Jul 15, 2004
French to English translations [PRO]
Construction / Civil Engineering
French term or phrase: Marché de travaux privés
Contract for a construction service.

If travaux publics is civil engineering, what's the technical term for travaux privés, please?
Vanessa Lindsey
United Kingdom
Local time: 02:01
It's the opposite of "public sector contract"
Explanation:
In France, contracts and the whole bidding process for contracts let by the public service are subject to very strict rules and conditions, any deviation from which will invalidate the outcome of the bidding process, so you have to go back to square one (I know, here in the village our architect omitted a tiny detail in the tender documents, and we've had to start again!!!).

Things are more relaxed in the public sector, but there are still "rules of fair competition" governing the bidding process.

I think it should not have the S at the end, i.e. "privé" qualifies "marché de travaux", so it's "private-sector (construction) contracts".
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Bourth (X)
Local time: 03:01
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5 +2It's the opposite of "public sector contract"
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Marché de travaux privés
It's the opposite of "public sector contract"


Explanation:
In France, contracts and the whole bidding process for contracts let by the public service are subject to very strict rules and conditions, any deviation from which will invalidate the outcome of the bidding process, so you have to go back to square one (I know, here in the village our architect omitted a tiny detail in the tender documents, and we've had to start again!!!).

Things are more relaxed in the public sector, but there are still "rules of fair competition" governing the bidding process.

I think it should not have the S at the end, i.e. "privé" qualifies "marché de travaux", so it's "private-sector (construction) contracts".

Bourth (X)
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Vicky Papaprodromou
15 mins
agree  Jane Lamb-Ruiz (X): yes it could also be a Engineering Works Contract..depends on context
5 hrs
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