OiEau - Annual report

PERSPECTIVES Assistance to the contracting authorities according to OiEau Formany years, OiEauhas been regularly solicited for traditional assistance missions. The independence and the developed services ensure valuable advice and expertise for the contracting authorities wishing to launch contracts for intellectual services: drawing up of specifications, analysis of offers, follow-up of execution are carried out by OiEau. The evolution of the water stakes, crossed with the topics of resilience to climate change and biodiversity, subject the contracting authorities to new more integrated and territorialized problems. OiEau's vocation is to help the various stakeholders to engage in these territorial projects. It implements complex ecosystem approaches, data analyses allowing decision making, open consultation processes, but also research for co-financing. The latter are justified by the territorial scale and the different functions and services provided by the overall project. The PTGE (Territorial Water Management Projects) are new tools which will carry out this OiEau activity in the coming years. OiEau is already at the side of Limoges Metropole by accompanying it in its strategic and technical reflections for the creation of a "Territory in Water Transition". Framework agreements: "agile" public contracts The application of the global support strategy is expressed naturally in the implementation of complex, multi-annual projects These either respond to specific public tenders or to large-scale calls for projects from national or international funders, in particular the European Community. In the first case, there has been a notable increase in consultations based on "framework agreements with subsequent contracts". This specific procedure makes it possible to draw up a long "framework" contract, specifying the challenges and objectives, often strategic, while allowing the various tasks to be detailed as the project progresses. The "subsequent contracts" are then updated as necessary. These framework agreements provide real agility in a structured support process with a number of prioritisation and evaluation criteria. Constant adaptation to the on-the-ground realities helps consolidate progress. Two important examples can be highlighted in the Overseas Departments that are designed to be of great benefit to the populations. In a difficult context when services are often poorly maintained and the media often focuses on the "water crisis", it is crucial to restore trust between water stakeholders and users. • In Guadeloupe, OiEau assists inter-communal cooperation public establishments (EPCIs) in charge of water and sanitation on behalf of Guadeloupe's Water Authority via a contract based on a framework agreement. The latter incorporates training and assistance as well as monitoring of progress. In 58