CELEX: 62008TJ0039
Language: en
Date: 2011-12-08
Title: Judgment of the General Court (Eighth Chamber) of 8 December 2011.#Evropaïki Dynamiki - Proigmena Systimata Tilepikoinonion Pliroforikis kai Tilematikis AE v European Commission.#Public service contracts - Tendering procedure - Provision of information technology services relating to the hosting, management, enhancement, promotion and maintenance of an internet portal - Rejection of a tender and award of the contract to another tenderer - Selection criteria - Award criteria - Non-contractual liability.#Case T-39/08.

Judgment of the General Court (Eighth Chamber) of 8 December 2011 – Evropaïki Dynamiki v Commission
      (Case T-39/08)
      Public service contracts – Tendering procedure – Provision of information technology services relating to the hosting, management, enhancement, promotion and maintenance
         of an internet portal – Rejection of a tender and award of the contract to another tenderer – Selection criteria – Award criteria – Non‑contractual liability
      
      1.                     European Union public contracts – Conclusion of a contract following a call for tenders – Criteria for selecting candidates
            – Assessment of the candidates’ capacity to provide specified services – Award criteria – Comparative assessment of the particular
            characteristics and merits of individual tenders – Application of a criterion for assessing the capacity of the candidates
            to perform a contract during the contract attribution phase – Not permissible (Council Regulation No 1605/2002, Art. 97(1)
            and (2); Commission Regulation No 2342/2002, Art. 138) (see paras 17-24, 38-40, 42)
      2.                     European Union public contracts – Conclusion of a contract following a call for tenders – Discretion of the institutions (see
            paras 21, 47)
      3.                     Non-contractual liability – Conditions – Unlawfulness – Damage – Causal link – Burden of proof – One of the conditions not
            satisfied – Claim for compensation dismissed in its entirety (Art. 288, second para., EC) (see paras 45-47)
      Re:
      
         
               First, application for annulment of the Commission Decision of 12 November 2007 rejecting the tender submitted by the applicant
                  in open call for tenders EAC/04/07 relating to the hosting, management, improvement, promotion and maintenance of the Commission’s
                  internet portal for ‘e-learning’ (elearningeuropa.info) (OJ 2007 S 87), and awarding the contract to another tenderer, and,
                  second, application for damages.
               
            Operative part 
      The Court:
      
         
                  1.
               
               
                  
               
               
                  	Annuls the Commission Decision of 12 November 2007 rejecting the tender submitted by Evropaïki Dynamiki – Proigmena Systimata
                     Tilepikoinonion Pliroforikis kai Tilematikis AE in open call for tenders EAC/04/07 relating to the hosting, management, enhancement,
                     promotion and maintenance of the European Commission’s internet portal on eLearning (elearningeuropa.info), and awarding the
                     contract to another tenderer;
                  
               
            
         
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                  	Dismisses the application for damages;
               
            
         
                  3.
               
               
                  
               
               
                  	Orders the Commission to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by Evropaïki Dynamiki – Proigmena Systimata Tilepikoinonion
                     Pliroforikis kai Tilematikis.