33Accordingly, drawing up a cooperation agreement presupposes that the public sector entities which intend to conclude such an agreement establish jointly their needs and the solutions to be adopted. By contrast, that stage of assessing and establishing needs is, as a general rule, unilateral in the case of the award of a normal public contract. In the latter case, the contracting authority does no more than launch a call for tenders setting out the specifications which it has itself drawn up.
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