Drafting of affiliation contracts with the purchasing or referencing centre

You want to improve your purchasing conditions by massifying purchases by grouping buyers. You have previously determined your legal strategy for creating your purchasing or referencing center.

As a referral center, the brand negotiates with the suppliers the prices and conditions that will benefit the members of the center, the distributors of the network. The central only intervenes here as an intermediary, the sales being then concluded directly between the suppliers and the members of the central.

The brand acting as a central purchasing body sells to distributors in its network products purchased from suppliers, from whom it has previously negotiated and obtained advantageous purchasing conditions.

Your purchase grouping is organized with legal acts: creation of a central purchasing or referencing company, drafting of affiliation contracts with the central in accordance with the choice of the legal qualification of the role of the central (which determines its financing, its responsibility, and therefore its risks, but also its economic model).

This consolidation may have an impact on competition and may require notification to the Competition Authority. The acts that organize it must scrupulously respect the constraints imposed by competition law.

Our methodology for drafting affiliation contracts with the central purchasing or referencing body

Through an exclusive questionnaire, we review with you each key point of the organization of relations between the plant and its affiliates during a meeting. We draw up, on the basis of the information collected and the choices made in the questionnaire phase, the acts necessary to set up your purchasing group in a personalised manner.

Gouache Avocats, benefits from a strong expertise in the field and assists you in the implementation, within your networks, of purchase grouping mechanisms by drafting the membership contracts to central purchasing or referencing.

Gouache Avocats makes sure to adapt your brand contracts (franchise, concession, license, etc.) to take into account the terms of grouping at purchase defined with you, when necessary.

An affiliation contract with a central purchasing or referencing center that meets your needs

Our method allows you to understand the contractual issues and to choose, whenever a contractual choice is to be made, a solution in line with your needs to achieve your purchasing grouping objectives.

On this occasion, you will benefit from our lawyers’ benchmarks dedicated to distribution and access to best market practices.

Our competition specialists ensure that your actions comply with the constraints of market rules and provide any required notifications.