Local authorities
Advisory services for local authorities in French Guiana
Client-side project management, local finance, public procurement and funding applications, from a firm led by a former chief executive of three French Guiana municipalities.
What we do
The daily work of a chief executive’s office, and its major files.
Local finance and budgets
Budget preparation and policy debate, financial forecasting, multi-year investment plans, year-end closing and carry-overs.
Funding applications
National grants, ERDF, EAFRD, Interreg, overseas funds: funding plans, applications, agreements, advance and balance claims followed to collection.
Public procurement
Procedure engineering: timetable, lots, criteria, economic and technical bid analysis, financial follow-up of contracts. Legal drafting stays with your departments or your lawyer.
Client-side project management
Programming and supervision of public facilities, water and sanitation schemes, buildings and roads, through to acceptance.
Organisation and HR
Service reviews, organisation charts, allowance schemes, payroll forecasting, labour relations.
Preparing meetings and audits
Notes, reports and draft acts (council resolutions, orders) prepared at the request and under the authority of the authority; documents and tables for audits by the financial courts.
How we work
With your departments, on your letterhead.
With your staff.
We work alongside your departments and leave the methods and tools behind: the authority keeps the skill once we have gone.
On your letterhead.
Notes, reports, draft acts and funding plans are prepared at your request, under your authority, on your letterhead, ready for committee or council.
Sourced and dated.
Every amount, threshold and legal reference is checked at the date of the document. Political choices are set out separately.
Within procurement rules.
Purchase order, adapted procedure or your own tender: we provide our administrative documents on request.
Why us
Before advising local authorities, we ran them.
Over fifteen years of public and private responsibility, ten of them as chief executive of three French Guiana municipalities: Maripasoula, Iracoubo, then Matoury and its 780 staff. Richard JOIGNY knows a municipal budget because he built one, public procurement because he practised it, and the legality review because he answered to it.
He works in French, English, Creole and Sranan Tongo, which matters when a negotiation is held in Paramaribo, Georgetown or Macapá.
Who we work for
Authorities of every size, companies in every sector.
Coastal towns and cities
Budgets in the tens of millions of euros, structured services, payroll and labour relations at stake.
River and inland municipalities
Small teams, hard logistics, facilities and drinking-water projects carried single-handed.
Groupings of municipalities
Transfers of competence, pooling, multi-year programming and audit by the regional court of accounts.
French West Indies authorities
The same trades in another setting: we also work in Guadeloupe.
Companies in French Guiana
SMEs, family groups, firms bidding for public contracts or investing.
Foreign investors
Companies from Brazil, Suriname, Guyana and the Caribbean looking for a European base.
We name no client, public or private: what you entrust to us stays between us. Detailed references are provided to public buyers on request, with the consent of the authorities concerned.
Thirty minutes is enough to know whether your project stands up.
The first call is confidential, free of charge and without commitment, by video or in Cayenne.