CELEX: 62006TJ0063
Language: en
Date: 2010-09-09 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the General Court (Fifth Chamber) of 9 September 2010.#Evropaïki Dynamiki - Proigmena Systimata Tilepikoinonion Pliroforikis kai Tilematikis AE v European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA).#Public service contracts - EMCDDA tender procedure - Supply of software programming and consultancy services - Rejection of a submitted tender - Award criteria - Manifest error of assessment - Equal treatment - Transparency - Principle of sound administration - Obligation to state reasons.#Case T-63/06.

Judgment of the General Court (Fifth Chamber) of 9 September 2010 – Evropaïki Dynamiki v EMCDDA
      (Case T-63/06)
      Public service contracts – EMCDDA tender procedure – Supply of software programming and consultancy services – Rejection of a submitted tender – Award criteria – Manifest error of assessment – Equal treatment – Transparency – Principle of sound administration – Duty to state reasons
      1.                     European Communities’ public procurement – Tender procedure (Council Regulation No 1605/2002, Arts 89 and 97(1); Commission
            Regulation No 2342/2002, Arts 135 to 138) (see paras 37-38, 56)
      2.                     Procedure – Application initiating proceedings – Formal requirements – Brief summary of the pleas in law on which the application
            is based (Rules of Procedure of the General Court, Art. 44(1)) (see para. 80)
      3.                     European Communities’ public procurement – Conclusion of a contract following a call for tenders (see paras 73, 89, 91)
      4.                     European Communities’ public procurement – Tender procedure (Commission Regulation No 2342/2002, Art. 148(1) and (3)) (see
            paras 96-98, 101-102, 104)
      5.                     Acts of the institutions – Statement of reasons – Obligation – Scope (Art. 253 EC; Council Regulation No 1605/2002, Art. 100(2);
            Commission Regulation No 2342/2002, Art. 149(2)) (see paras 109-114, 120)
      Re:
      
         
               APPLICATION for annulment of the decision of the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction of 5 December 2005
                  to reject the bid submitted by the applicant in response to a call for tenders for the supply of software programming and
                  consultancy services (OJ 2005 S 187) and to award the contract to another tenderer or, in the alternative, a claim for damages.
               
            Operative part
      The Court: 
      
         
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                  	Dismisses the action;
               
            
         
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                  	Orders Evropaïki Dynamiki – Proigmena Systimata Tilepikoinonion Pliroforikis kai Tilematikis AE to bear its own costs and
                     to pay those of the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA).