CELEX: 62003TJ0332
Language: en
Date: 2008-03-12
Title: Judgment of the Court of First Instance (Third Chamber) of 12 March 2008.#European Service Network (ESN) SA v Commission of the European Communities.#Public service contracts - Community tendering procedure - Provision of services for the development and provision of services in support of the Community Research and Development Service (CORDIS) -- Rejection of a tender - Principles of equal treatment as between tenderers and transparency - Compliance with the award criteria set out in the tendering specifications.#Case T-332/03.

Judgment of the Court of First Instance (Third Chamber) of 12 March 2008 – European Service Network v Commission
      (Case T-332/03)
      Public service contracts – Community tendering procedure – Provision of services for the development and provision of services in support of the Community Research and Development
         Service (CORDIS) –- Rejection of a tender – Principles of equal treatment as between tenderers and transparency – Compliance with the award criteria set out in the tendering specifications
      
      1.                     European Communities’ public procurement – Tendering procedure (see paras 122, 125-127, 130, 142, 145, 147-148)
      2.                     European Communities’ public procurement – Conclusion of a contract following a call for tenders (see para. 213)
      3.                     Procedure – Application initiating proceedings – Formal requirements (Statute of the Court of Justice, Arts 21, first para.,
            and 53, first para.; Rules of Procedure of the Court of First Instance, Arts 44(1)(c) and 48(2)) (see paras 229-231)
      Re:
      
         
               APPLICATION for the annulment of the decision to award the contract which is the subject of the Commission’s call for tenders
                  ENTR/02/55 – CORDIS Lot 1 for the development and provision of services in support of the Community Research and Development
                  Service (CORDIS).
               
            Operative part
      The Court:
      
         
                  1.
               
               
                  
               
               
                  	Dismisses the application;
               
            
         
                  2.
               
               
                  
               
               
                  	Orders European Service Network (ESN) to pay the costs.