CELEX: 62009TJ0057
Public service contracts
Tendering procedure
Provision of technical maintenance and help desk and on-site intervention services for the PCs, printers and peripherals of the General Secretariat of the Council
Rejection of a tender
Obligation to state the reasons on which a decision is based

APPLICATION, first, for annulment of the Council’s decision of 1 December 2008 to reject the tender submitted by the Alfastar-Siemens
consortium, composed of Alfastar Benelux SA and Siemens IT Solutions and Services SA, in response to Call for Tenders UCA/218/07
for the provision of technical maintenance – help desk and on-site intervention services for the PCs, printers and peripherals
of the General Secretariat of the Council (OJ 2008/S 91‑122796) and to award the contract to another tenderer and, secondly,
for damages.
Operative part
The Court:
1.
Annuls the Council’s decision of 1 December 2008 to reject the tender submitted by the consortium composed of Alfastar Benelux
SA and Siemens IT Solutions and Services SA, in response to Call for Tenders UCA/218/07 for the provision of technical maintenance
– help desk and on-site intervention services for the PCs, printers and peripherals of the General Secretariat of the Council
and to award the contract to another tenderer;
2.
Dismisses the claim for damages;
3.
Orders the Council of the European Union to pay the costs.