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with the terms and conditions provided for by the regulations in force.

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(2) ln case of persistent disagreement between the Public Tenders Board and the

Contracting Authority, the request for arbitration may be submitted online to the Minister in charge
of Public Contracts, in accordance with the regulations in force.

CHAPTERIV
ONLINE ARCHIVING OF PROCUREMENT DOCUMENTS
ARTICLE 28.· The electronic archiving of documents shall be based on the principle of

equivalence between the hard copy and soft copy.
ARTICLE 29.· (1) Electronic archive documents shall have the same probative value as physical

archives.
(2) Archives generated by public procurement activity shall be and remain public

archives. They shall be imprescriptible, non-transferable and unattachable.
ARTICLE 30.· The time frame for conserving documents saved on electronic media shall be the

same as for documents in paper version.
ARTICLE 31.- (1) Documents available on the dematerialisation platform shall be archived by

each Project Owner, Contracting Authority, Public Tenders Board and the public contracts
regulation agency, independently of the central archiving system managed by the Minister in
charge of Public Contracts.
(2) Access to the central archives of the platform shall be subject to a specific

request addressed to the Minister in charge of Public Contracts.

CHAPTERV
MISCELLANEOUS, TRANSITIONAL AND FINAL PROVISIONS
ARTICLE 32.- Procurement via the electronic channel shall be regulated by the same rules as

those provided for by the Public Contracts Code.
ARTICLE 33.- Subject to their specificities, negotiated con tracts may be awarded through the

electronic channel, under conditions specified by this decree:
ARTICLE 34.· Oematerialised and physical procedures shall exist side by side until the effective

establishment of a dematerialisation system likely to be used exclusively.
SERVICES DU PREMIER MINISTRE
SECRÉTARIAT GÉNÉRAL
DIRECTION DES AFFAIRES AOMINISTRAT!VE~-'
ET DES RrUÊTES

COPIE CERTIFJE CONFORME

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