CELEX: 62008TJ0554
Public service contracts
Call for tenders
Provision of business, technical and project consultancy services for European Union computer applications in the customs, excise and taxation areas
Rejection of a tender
Decision to award the contract to another tenderer
Action for annulment
Inadmissibility
Claim in damages
Selection and award criteria
Duty to state reasons
Manifest error of assessment

ACTION for annulment of the Commission’s decision of 26 September 2008 rejecting the tender submitted by the consortium formed
by the applicant and other companies in response to call for tenders ‘TAXUD/2007/AO-005’ relating to the provision of business,
technical and project consultancy services for Community computer applications in the customs, excise and taxation areas (‘TIMEA’),
and all consequential decisions, including the decision to award the contract to the successful tenderer, brought pursuant
to Articles 225 EC and 230 EC, and a claim in damages brought pursuant to Articles 225 EC, 235 EC and 288 EC.
Operative part
The Court:
1.
Dismisses the action;
2.
Orders Evropaïki Dynamiki – Proigmena Systimata Tilepikoinonion Pliroforikis kai Tilematikis AE to pay its own costs and those
incurred by the European Commission.