France Tenders Monitor: BOAMP, TED & Marchés Publics

What is France Tenders Monitor?

Find French public tenders (marchés publics, appels d'offres) that actually fit your business.

• Sources. This Actor combines BOAMP, the official French bulletin of public procurement notices (European, national and MAPA / adapted-procedure notices), with the EU's TED (Tenders Electronic Daily) for French buyers.
• Matching. It removes cross-posted duplicates and scores every notice against your profile: CPV codes, French keywords, départements, regions, market level, contract type and value.
• Output. You get one clean, flat row per opportunity, with the response deadline (date limite de réponse), a relevanceScore from 0 to 100 and plain-language matchReasons.

Use it as a daily tender alert (monitor mode returns only notices you haven't seen yet), for a market scan of the last 31 days (backfill), or for competitor tracking (award notices with winners, awarded values and number of offers).

Who it's for

• Bid managers and sales teams selling to French public buyers (communes, départements, régions, hospitals, universities, State services). They get one scored shortlist each morning instead of checking BOAMP, TED and several buyer profiles.
• SMEs looking for smaller contracts. marketLevels: ["national", "mapa"] keeps the below-EU-threshold notices that TED-only tools never see.
• Foreign companies entering the French market. They can use the same agent-friendly schema as our German & EU Tenders Monitor, so one profile works for both countries.
• Tender consultants monitoring several client profiles (one saved task and stateKey per client).
• Analysts and AI agents that need clean, structured French procurement data (CPV, NUTS, départements, deadlines, values, award winners) through an API.

What it does

• Reads BOAMP through its official open-data API (DILA, Licence Ouverte). It makes one request per publication day and parses all three BOAMP formats:
  • European notices in eForms
  • national notices (formulaire national simplifié)
  • MAPA notices
• Queries the TED Search API v3 for French buyers (country FRA).
• Deduplicates across sources. A notice published in BOAMP and on TED becomes one row with both links, sources: ["BOAMP", "TED"].
  • Matching uses the eForms notice UUID first, then the TED publication number, then a conservative fuzzy match.
  • Identical re-publications are collapsed. The older ids go to relatedNoticeIds.
• Scores relevance with transparent rules (no LLM, no black box):
  • CPV codes by prefix: 72 matches all IT services, 45 all construction works, 909 cleaning.
  • Keywords, accent- and case-insensitive (electricite = électricité), matched in the title and in BOAMP's own descriptors (full weight) and in the description (half weight). Rare words count more.
  • Hard filters:
    • excludeKeywords
    • departments (from BOAMP's département codes or the buyer's postcode, incl. 2A/2B and overseas)
    • regions (names such as Bretagne, abbreviations such as IDF, PACA, AURA, or NUTS prefixes such as FRK2)
    • marketLevels (eu, national, mapa)
    • contractTypes
    • minValue / maxValue
    • onlyOpen (the deadline is still in the future)
    • competitorNames (awards)
• Three modes: monitor, backfill and awards.
• GDPR by default. Named buyer contacts (M. / Mme …), personal e-mail addresses (prenom.nom@…) and phone numbers are removed. This applies to contact fields and inside free text.
  • Only organisation names and functional contacts (e.g. marchespublics@ville.fr, "Direction de la commande publique") are kept.
  • Sole-trader winners of MAPA contracts (PersonnePhysique) are never output.

Why it beats single-source BOAMP scrapers

	Typical BOAMP scrapers	This Actor
BOAMP national + MAPA notices	✅	✅
French notices that are only on TED	❌	✅
Cross-source deduplication	❌	✅ one row per notice, both links kept
Relevance scoring with reasons	❌ or paid AI add-on	✅ relevanceScore + matchReasons, included
Département and region and NUTS filters	partly	✅
"Only new since last run"	some	✅ persistent state per stateKey
Award winners from national notices	partly	✅ legal entities only, sole traders dropped
Personal contact data (names, e-mails, phones)	often included	removed
Logins, proxies, HTML scraping	sometimes	none: official open-data APIs only

We measured a 31-day window (4 Sep to 4 Oct 2026, tender notices):

• The Actor read 7,156 BOAMP and 4,887 TED notices for French buyers.
• It merged 3,914 cross-posts, collapsed 122 re-publications and returned 8,007 unique notices.
• About 3,200 BOAMP notices (national and MAPA) were never on TED, so a TED-only alert misses them.
• About 970 TED notices had no BOAMP counterpart, so a BOAMP-only scraper misses those.

In the 7-day IT example below, 22 of the 70 matches came from TED only.

How to get daily French tender alerts

1. Click Start with the prefilled IT-services example. It's a quick market scan (backfill) that returns up to 25 scored French tenders, so you see real output before you change anything.
2. Replace the CPV codes and keywords with your own. Optionally add départements or regions, market levels, contract types and a value range.
3. Pick a mode: backfill for a market scan of the last days, monitor for daily alerts that return only notices you haven't seen yet, or awards for competitor tracking.
4. Look at the results in the Output tab (views "Matches" and "Awards") or download them as JSON, CSV or Excel.
5. For daily alerts, switch mode to monitor, save the input as a task and add a schedule (for example every weekday at 07:00).
6. Send new matches on with Apify integrations (Slack, Google Drive, Make, Zapier, n8n or a webhook), or call the Actor from your own code through the Apify API.

Modes

mode	What you get	Typical use
monitor (default)	Notices published in the last lookbackDays (default 1) plus today that earlier runs with the same stateKey have not returned. A first run that finds nothing looks back 7 days once (see below).	Schedule it daily (e.g. 08:00 Europe/Paris) and connect it to e-mail, Slack, a CRM or a spreadsheet.
backfill	Everything between dateFrom and dateTo (max 31 days; without dates: the last 7 days). Leaves the monitor state untouched.	Market scan, pipeline building, testing a profile.
awards	Award notices only (avis d'attribution), with winnerNames, awardedValue and numberOfTenders.	Competitor and price intelligence.

BOAMP also publishes on Saturdays (we counted 143 notices on Saturday 3 Oct 2026). TED publishes on working days.

The Console form vs. API defaults

• The Console form opens with a short trial: mode = backfill (the last 7 days), the IT profile (CPV 72/48 plus informatique, logiciel and infogérance) and maxResults = 25. One click shows the 25 best current matches for at most USD 0.25. This prefill is also what Apify's daily automated Store test runs. It keeps no state, so it returns rows on any day, weekends and holidays included.

• Before you schedule it, switch mode to monitor and raise maxResults, or set it to 0 for no limit.

• API calls, tasks and schedules that leave a field out get the defaults: mode = monitor, lookbackDays = 1, maxResults = 200. The prefill values only fill the form.

• Warning for one-off API and AI-agent calls: leaving out mode runs monitor mode. That returns only notices from the last lookbackDays (default 1) that no earlier run with the same stateKey has returned, and it remembers them, so the same call repeated returns nothing new. For a one-off search, set "mode": "backfill" (without dateFrom/dateTo it covers the last 7 days and keeps no state):

  {
    "mode": "backfill",
    "cpvCodes": ["72", "48"],
    "keywords": ["cybersécurité", "sécurité informatique", "audit de sécurité"],
    "regions": ["IDF"],
    "maxDaysUntilDeadline": 21,
    "maxResults": 50
  }
  

• First monitor run on a quiet day: a monitor run with no saved state (the first run for a stateKey, or one with resetState) that finds nothing new looks back firstRunBackfillDays (default 7) once. Everything it returns is remembered, so the next run is a normal monitor run. Set it to 0 to turn this off.

• Quiet days and outages: a monitor run with nothing new still ends Succeeded, with 0 rows and a status message. Nothing is charged. If BOAMP or TED is down or runs out of time (a failed BOAMP day, a TED error), the run keeps everything that source did deliver (finished BOAMP days, TED pages fetched so far) and continues with the other source. It never hides this: the status message starts with PARTIAL DATA, the log has a PARTIAL SOURCE line with the missing days, and RUN_SUMMARY lists sourceStatus, partialSources, missingDays and warnings. You only pay for rows that are delivered. If both are unreachable, the run ends Failed with a clear message. Nothing is charged and the monitor state is left unchanged. A source that hangs is given up after 210 s in short monitor runs; backfills get 60 s plus 25 s per day of the window (about 14 minutes for 31 days), so a run never gets stuck.

Input examples

1. IT services, 7-day scan

{
  "mode": "backfill",
  "profileName": "it-services",
  "cpvCodes": ["72", "48"],
  "keywords": ["logiciel", "informatique", "infogérance", "cybersécurité", "développement"],
  "excludeKeywords": ["fourniture de papier"],
  "dateFrom": "2026-09-28",
  "dateTo": "2026-10-04",
  "minScore": 40
}

2. Daily alert: cleaning in Paris and the petite couronne

{
  "mode": "monitor",
  "profileName": "nettoyage-idf",
  "cpvCodes": ["909"],
  "keywords": ["nettoyage", "propreté", "vitrerie"],
  "departments": ["75", "92", "93", "94"],
  "lookbackDays": 1
}

3. Construction SME in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, smaller contracts only

{
  "mode": "backfill",
  "profileName": "btp-aura-pme",
  "cpvCodes": ["45"],
  "keywords": ["voirie", "réseaux", "VRD", "assainissement"],
  "regions": ["Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes"],
  "marketLevels": ["national", "mapa"],
  "contractTypes": ["works"],
  "minScore": 50
}

4. Competitor tracking (awards)

{
  "mode": "awards",
  "competitorNames": ["Eiffage", "Eurovia", "Colas", "Spie"],
  "dateFrom": "2026-09-05",
  "dateTo": "2026-10-04"
}

More ready-to-run inputs are in the examples/ folder of the source code.

Input reference (short)

Field	Meaning
cpvCodes	CPV prefixes (2–8 digits). 72 = IT services, 48 = software, 45 = construction works, 909 = cleaning, 4873 / 72212730 = security software, 7971 = guarding / security services (gardiennage, not IT).
keywords / excludeKeywords	French (or English) terms. Accents and case are ignored, plurals match. Terms of 3 characters or fewer match whole words only.
departments	Département codes: 75, 69, 6 (= 06), 2A, 971.
regions	Region names (Bretagne, Île-de-France, IDF, PACA, AURA, …) or NUTS prefixes (FR1, FRK2, FRL04).
marketLevels	eu (above EU thresholds, also on TED), national, mapa (adapted procedure, smaller contracts).
contractTypes	works, services, supplies.
minScore	0–100. Only notices at or above it are returned and charged. 40 is a good default; 60 is strict. Keywords raise the score, so a high minScore with only a few keywords can return nothing (a CPV-only match scores 50).
onlyOpen	Drop tenders whose response deadline has passed (default true).
minDaysUntilDeadline / maxDaysUntilDeadline	Optional deadline window in days from the run date (the daysUntilDeadline field: response deadline, or the participation deadline if no response deadline is published). "maxDaysUntilDeadline": 21 = due within 3 weeks; "minDaysUntilDeadline": 5 skips tenders you can't prepare in time. Not set = no filter. When either is set, notices without a published deadline are excluded. Filtered notices are never charged.
sources	boamp, ted (default both).
maxResults	Hard cap on rows (and therefore on cost) per run, best matches first. Default 200 (the Console form prefills 25).
sortBy	relevance, deadline or publicationDate.
stateKey / resetState	Separate monitor memory per profile, or start fresh.
firstRunBackfillDays	Monitor only: how far a first run with no saved state looks back if its normal window is empty. Default 7, 0 = off.

Without cpvCodes, keywords or competitorNames, the Actor returns an unscored feed (all notices that pass the filters), charged at the lower notice price.

Sample output

One row from the IT example (the full sample is in sample-output.json):

{
  "noticeId": "dfcd6f13-6392-4aa3-9039-221d19ebb12a",
  "noticeType": "tender",
  "title": "Infogérance et maintenance des serveurs du système d'information de la Ville de Soisy-sous-Montmorency",
  "description": "La Ville de Soisy-sous-Montmorency est dotée de serveurs permettant le fonctionnement de l'ensemble du parc informatique …",
  "buyerName": "COMMUNE DE SOISY-SOUS-MONTMORENCY",
  "buyerCity": "SOISY SOUS MONTMORENCY",
  "buyerPostalCode": "95230",
  "buyerRegion": "Île-de-France",
  "buyerNuts": "FR108",
  "departments": ["95"],
  "buyerEmail": "marchespublics@soisy-sous-montmorency.fr",
  "buyerContactPoint": "Direction de la commande publique",
  "cpvMain": "72514300",
  "cpvCodes": ["72514300", "72600000", "48800000"],
  "contractNature": "services",
  "procedureType": "open",
  "marketLevel": "eu",
  "aboveEuThreshold": true,
  "submissionDeadline": "2026-11-12T12:00:00+01:00",
  "daysUntilDeadline": 38,
  "isOpen": true,
  "publicationDate": "2026-10-02",
  "documentsUrl": "https://commune-soisysousmontmorency.e-marchespublics.com/pack/annonce_marche_public_32691_1176707.html",
  "boampDescriptors": ["Informatique (maintenance serveurs et réseaux)"],
  "boampId": "26-94729",
  "boampUrl": "https://www.boamp.fr/pages/avis/?q=idweb:26-94729",
  "tedUrl": "https://ted.europa.eu/en/notice/-/detail/679248-2026",
  "tedPublicationNumber": "679248-2026",
  "sources": ["BOAMP", "TED"],
  "dedupMethod": "notice-id",
  "relatedNoticeIds": ["boamp:26-82876"],
  "relevanceScore": 85,
  "matchReasons": [
    "Main CPV 72514300 matches profile CPV 72",
    "Keyword 'informatique' in BOAMP descriptor",
    "Keyword 'infogérance' in title",
    "Deadline in 38 day(s)"
  ],
  "profileName": "it-services-idf",
  "retrievedAt": "2026-10-05T02:18:59+02:00"
}

Award rows also carry winnerNames, awardedValue, awardedCurrency and numberOfTenders. Every run stores a RUN_SUMMARY record in the key-value store: notices per source and day, whether each source is complete (sourceStatus, missingDays), dedup statistics, filter counts, matches and bytes downloaded.

Output fields

Group	Fields
Identity	noticeId, noticeVersion, noticeType (tender, award, planning, modification, change, other), formType, noticeSubtype, relatedNoticeIds
Content	title, description (shortened), cpvMain, cpvCodes, boampDescriptors, contractNature, procedureType, legalBasis, marketLevel, aboveEuThreshold, lotCount
Buyer and place	buyerName, buyerCity, buyerPostalCode, departments, buyerRegion, buyerNuts, buyerCountry, buyerWebsite, buyerEmail and buyerContactPoint (functional only), placeOfPerformanceNuts
Money and dates	estimatedValue, currency, publicationDate, submissionDeadline, participationDeadline, daysUntilDeadline, isOpen
Links	boampUrl, boampId, tedUrl, tedPublicationNumber, noticeUrl, documentsUrl, submissionUrl
Matching	relevanceScore, matchReasons, profileName, sources, dedupMethod, language, retrievedAt
Awards	winnerNames, awardedValue, awardedCurrency, numberOfTenders (awardedValue is only filled on award and contract-modification notices; it is always null on open tenders, where estimatedValue holds the estimate)

Pricing (pay per event)

Event	Price
Actor start	USD 0.00005
scored-match: a notice that matched your profile at or above minScore	USD 0.01
notice: a row in an unscored feed (no CPV, keyword or competitor profile)	USD 0.003

Filtered notices, notices below minScore, duplicates and notices already delivered by an earlier monitor run are never charged. Platform compute is included. You can cap cost with maxResults and with the run's maximum total charge; the Actor stops cleanly when the limit is reached.

Real runs on 5 Oct 2026 (inputs in examples/):

Run	Rows returned	Your cost
Daily monitor, cleaning in Paris + 92/93/94	3	USD 0.03
7-day backfill, IT services, open tenders, minScore 40	70	USD 0.70
31-day backfill, IT services	252	USD 2.52
30-day awards, four construction groups as competitors	101	USD 1.01
7-day unscored feed, services in Bouches-du-Rhône, Var, Vaucluse	98	98 × 0.003 = USD 0.29

A daily monitor for a typical profile costs a few US dollars per month. You pay only for notices that matched.

Use with AI agents (MCP)

The input schema is written so that an LLM can call the Actor without guessing: plain-English descriptions, enums, defaults and examples. Add the Actor to the Apify MCP server in Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code or any other MCP client:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "apify": {
      "url": "https://mcp.apify.com?tools=actors,lindenwerk/france-tender-matcher"
    }
  }
}

Then ask, for example: "Find open French tenders for cybersecurity audits in Île-de-France and Hauts-de-France from the last 14 days and list the five closest deadlines." The agent maps this to:

• mode: backfill
• cpvCodes: ["72"]
• keywords: ["cybersécurité", "audit de sécurité", "sécurité informatique"]
• regions: ["IDF", "Hauts-de-France"]
• sortBy: deadline

It can then quote matchReasons to explain each result. For "due in the next 3 weeks" it adds maxDaysUntilDeadline: 21. Agents should always set mode explicitly: without it the call runs as a monitor (see above).

You can also call the Actor through the Apify API (POST https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/lindenwerk~france-tender-matcher/run-sync-get-dataset-items) or the Python/JS clients. It connects to Make, Zapier, n8n, Google Sheets or Slack through Apify integrations.

Data sources, licences and attribution

The Actor processes public, non-personal procurement data that contracting authorities are legally required to publish. It uses official open-data interfaces only: no login, no proxies, no HTML scraping.

• BOAMP, Direction de l'information légale et administrative (DILA), through the BOAMP open-data API (https://boamp-datadila.opendatasoft.com, dataset boamp). Published under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence (Etalab), see https://www.data.gouv.fr/datasets/boamp. Attribution: "Contient des données BOAMP (DILA), Licence Ouverte". The data was reshaped and scored by this Actor; the last update date is the publicationDate of each notice.
• TED (Tenders Electronic Daily), Publications Office of the European Union, through the Search API v3 (https://api.ted.europa.eu/v3/notices/search). © European Union. Reuse is authorised under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU. Source: TED, https://ted.europa.eu.
• This is an independent tool, not an official service of DILA or the EU. Always check the original notice (links included) and the consultation documents before you bid. The official notice prevails.

GDPR and responsible use

French notices often name a buyer contact (e.g. correspondantPRM with civilité, nom, prénom and a personal e-mail). This Actor drops personal data by default:

• It never outputs phone numbers.
• It removes person-like e-mail addresses.
• It replaces M. / Mme / Monsieur / Madame <nom> mentions in titles and descriptions with placeholders such as [nom supprimé].
• It keeps only functional contact points.
• MAPA award winners registered as natural persons (sole traders) are dropped. National award winners extracted from text are dropped when they look like a natural person.

Organisation names (buyers and winners) are kept as published. Use the output to find and bid for tenders, not for contact harvesting or unsolicited marketing.

Limits

• MAPA notices often have no CPV code. Add keywords to your profile so they can still match (BOAMP descriptors help).
• For national (non-eForms) award notices, winners and amounts come from BOAMP's free text. The extraction is conservative, so some winners are missing rather than wrong.
• Region filtering uses NUTS codes and départements. Notices that state neither are dropped when a region filter is set.
• One run covers at most 31 publication days. For longer histories, run several backfills.

FAQ

How is relevanceScore calculated?

• CPV evidence (main CPV 0.5, additional CPV 0.35) and keyword evidence (title or descriptor hits count double, rare terms weigh more) are combined as 100 × (1 − (1 − cpv) × (1 − keywords)).
• In a profile with both CPV codes and keywords, a CPV-only match scores 50, and CPV plus a title keyword scores about 70–85.
• matchReasons lists every contribution.

Why do some rows have no estimated value? Many buyers don't publish one. Value filters keep notices with unknown values so you don't miss them.

Which deadline is submissionDeadline? The date limite de réception des offres, the earliest across lots. It is converted to an ISO timestamp with the French time zone offset. For restricted procedures, participationDeadline holds the deadline for requests to participate.

Can I monitor several profiles? Yes. Create one saved task per profile, each with its own stateKey.

Can I only get tenders due soon (or not too soon)? Yes. maxDaysUntilDeadline keeps notices whose deadline is at most that many days after the run, minDaysUntilDeadline at least that many. Both count from the run date to the deadline in daysUntilDeadline. With either set, notices without a published deadline are dropped. Dropped notices are not charged.

What does a run with no matches cost? Only the Actor start event (USD 0.00005).

Does it cover other countries? This Actor is France only. For Germany plus any EU country via TED, see our German & EU Tenders Monitor.

Examples

• French IT tenders (BOAMP + TED) - last 7 days: a published example task with a ready-made input. Open it, adjust the input and run it in your own Apify account.

Other Lindenwerk Data Actors

• German & EU Tenders: Public Procurement Monitor: Ausschreibungen from oeffentlichevergabe.de and TED, deduplicated and scored to your CPV codes and keywords.
• UK Tenders Monitor: Government Contracts & Find a Tender Alerts: Find a Tender notices (above and below threshold) as daily tender alerts, scored to your profile.
• SAM.gov Government Contract Opportunities Monitor: US federal bids and RFPs from SAM.gov, scored to your NAICS and set-asides.
• Website Technology & Tech Stack Detector: BuiltWith Alternative: CMS, shop system, analytics, consent manager and email provider of any website, in bulk.
• SEO Audit Crawler: Broken Links, llms.txt & AI Bot Check: on-page SEO, broken links, llms.txt and AI crawler check for whole websites.
• PDF to Markdown & RAG Chunks: Document Parser (DOCX/PPTX/XLSX): PDF, Word, PowerPoint and Excel to clean Markdown with inline tables and page-cited RAG chunks; it reads the procurement documents behind each notice's documentsUrl.

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Deutsch (Kurzfassung)

Französische öffentliche Ausschreibungen (marchés publics) aus BOAMP und TED in einer Liste: dedupliziert und nach Ihrem Profil bewertet.

• Quellen: Der Actor lädt die offiziellen Open-Data-Bekanntmachungen des BOAMP (DILA, Licence Ouverte), also EU-weite und nationale Verfahren sowie MAPA-Verfahren unterhalb der EU-Schwellenwerte, und ergänzt sie um französische Bekanntmachungen aus TED.

• Bewertung: Doppelte Veröffentlichungen werden zusammengeführt. Jede Bekanntmachung wird nach CPV-Codes, Suchbegriffen (akzentunabhängig), Départements, Regionen, Marktebene und Auftragsart bewertet: relevanceScore 0–100 mit Begründung in matchReasons.

• monitor (Standard bei API-Aufrufen und Zeitplänen): täglich nur neue Ausschreibungen (Ausschreibungs-Alert per Zeitplan)

• backfill: Marktüberblick über bis zu 31 Tage. Das Formular in der Console startet damit: die letzten 7 Tage, höchstens 25 Treffer. Vor dem Einplanen auf monitor umstellen. Achtung: Ein API-Aufruf ohne mode läuft als monitor; für eine einmalige Suche "mode": "backfill" setzen.

• awards: Zuschlagsbekanntmachungen mit Gewinnern, Auftragswerten und Anzahl der Angebote

Abrechnung pro Treffer: USD 0,01 je bewertetem Treffer, USD 0,003 je Zeile im ungefilterten Feed. Personenbezogene Kontaktdaten (Namen, persönliche E-Mail-Adressen, Telefonnummern) werden standardmäßig entfernt. Ideal für deutsche Unternehmen, die den französischen Markt erschließen. Das Eingabeschema entspricht unserem German & EU Tenders Monitor. Quellen: BOAMP (DILA, Licence Ouverte) und TED, © Europäische Union (Beschluss 2011/833/EU).

Français (résumé)

Les marchés publics du BOAMP et de TED, dédoublonnés et notés selon votre profil.

• Codes CPV, mots-clés sans accents ni majuscules, départements, régions, niveau de marché (européen, national, MAPA), type de marché et montant.
• Chaque avis reçoit un score de 0 à 100 avec ses raisons (matchReasons).
• Mode veille quotidienne (monitor), analyse sur 31 jours (backfill) et suivi des attributions (awards).
• Le formulaire s'ouvre sur un essai backfill des 7 derniers jours (25 résultats au plus) ; passez en monitor avant de planifier une veille. Attention : un appel API sans mode s'exécute en monitor ; pour une recherche ponctuelle, indiquez "mode": "backfill".
• Filtre optionnel minDaysUntilDeadline / maxDaysUntilDeadline (jours jusqu'à la date limite, p. ex. 21 = dans les 3 semaines) ; les avis sans date limite sont alors exclus et jamais facturés.
• Les données personnelles des correspondants sont supprimées par défaut.
• Contient des données BOAMP (DILA), Licence Ouverte.

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