In-house providing in french public law

In-house providing procurements concern contracts awarded by contracting authorities without application of the procedures laid down in european secondary law. They thus have to be first considered as a derogation, which reveals their stakes but also the way they've been shaped. To make sure that it would'nt be used to abuse european law, european institutions have paid special attention to in-house operation's conditions. In-house contracting parties have to prove the existence of particular conditions relating to the functioning of the contractor and its relations with its holders. Through those characteristics lies the particularity of in-house providing, which can be distinguished from other notions, such as transparent associations or artificial schemes. This is also a way to affirm in-house procurements' legitimacy and to make it a real legal construction. This naturally leads to its qualification. Studying its manifestations in french public law makes clear that this construction is not complete. In-house contractor may take many legal forms, which brings to light in-house poviding's flexibility. It also prevents financial and fiscal french law to seize this derogation. In house-contracts can't therefore be described as a an intermediary governance mode, between outsourcing and internal governance (in-house operations stricto sensu). Nevertheless, in-house providing procurements embody a type of special contracts, les contrats interorganiques, which implies particular rules relating to their passation and admits a certain particularity concerning their execution.