Case T-41/24: Judgment of the General Court of 19 November 2025 – LGAI Technological Center and jtsec Beyond IT Security v EUSPA (Public service contracts – Tendering procedure – Security accreditation services – Rejection of a tenderer’s bid – Regulation (EU) 2021/696 – Space programme – Condition that the eligible legal entity is not controlled by a third country or a third-country entity – Right to be heard – Obligation to state reasons – Obligation to examine tenders in accordance with the criteria set out in the procurement documents – Manifest error of assessment – Proportionality)
Date: 2025-11-19
Institutions: General Court
Subjects: award of contract, information security, principle of proportionality, provision of services, public procurement, rights of the defence, services contract, space policy, tendering, use of outer space








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Official Journal of the European Union


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C/2026/108


5.1.2026






Judgment of the General Court of 19 November 2025 – LGAI Technological Center and jtsec Beyond IT Security v EUSPA


(Case T-41/24)
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(Public service contracts - Tendering procedure - Security accreditation services - Rejection of a tenderer’s bid - Regulation (EU) 2021/696 - Space programme - Condition that the eligible legal entity is not controlled by a third country or a third-country entity - Right to be heard - Obligation to state reasons - Obligation to examine tenders in accordance with the criteria set out in the procurement documents - Manifest error of assessment - Proportionality)
(C/2026/108)
Language of the case: Spanish

Parties


Applicants: LGAI Technological Center, SA (Cerdanyola de Vallés, Spain), jtsec Beyond IT Security, SL (Granada, Spain) (represented by: X. Codina García-Andrade, J.M. Martínez Gimeno and M. Vélez Fraga, lawyers)

Defendant: European Union Agency for the Space Programme (represented by: E. Villa, O. Serdula and M. Kraus, acting as Agents, and by T. Hokr, M. Nedelka, G. Bayas Fernánadez and J. Exner, lawyers)

Re:

By their action under Article 263 TFEU, the applicants seek the annulment of the decisions of the European Union Agency for the Space Programme (EUSPA) of 16 January and 22 February 2024 by which EUSPA informed the applicants that the tender they had submitted in respect of invitation to tender EUSPA/OP/01/23 for the provision of ‘security accreditation services’ had not been accepted.

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:






1.


Declares that there is no longer any need to rule on the claims seeking the annulment of the decision of the European Union Agency for the Space Programme (EUSPA) of 16 January 2024 rejecting the tender submitted by LGAI Technological Center, SA and jtsec Beyond IT Security, SL in the tender procedure with reference EUSPA/OP/01/23;










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Dismisses the action as to the remainder;










3.


Orders LGAI Technological Center, jtsec Beyond IT Security and EUSPA each to bear their own costs, including those relating to the interim proceedings.






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            OJ C, C/2024/1883, 11.3.2024.


ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2026/108/oj
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