Following the National Strategy for Artificial Intelligence (SNIA) launched in 2018, the Government has just set up a committee for generative artificial intelligence in September 2023. These initiatives illustrate, in addition to the media importance that AI has continued to have since ChatGPT was made available to the general public, the urgency for the French public sector to appropriate these new technologies. Europe has already taken up the subject and is preparing AI regulation, the famous AI Act, at the center of a controversy between EU members , accusing France of wanting to relax regulation to favor some of its companies.
it is likely that the subject of public procurement will emerge as one that could undergo a major upheaval in the years to come. Just like many professions directly affected by AI, from audiovisual scriptwriters to journalists, graphic designers and translators, to name just a few of the growing examples, public buyers will not escape this technological sweden telegram data revolution. Without a doubt, the Legal Affairs Directorate (DAJ) of the Ministry of Finance and the State Purchasing Directorate (DAE) should soon issue at least advice to buyers on AI, or even eventually propose amendments to the public procurement code.
The impacts of AI potentially concern all stages of a public order: drafting of the contract, publication, responses from bidders, judgment of offers, execution.