According to the French daily Les Echos, the government has made a call for bids in order to select the bank that will advise it for the market investment of all or part of its 15.8% stake in DASSAULT SYSTEMS (turnover EUR 620 million forecast for the financial period ending February this year), a stake worth EUR 1.3 billion. The group, which is the result of the reorganisation of the DASSAULT aircraft company, is the world's largest for computer-assisted design and manufacture software.