CELEX: 62009TJ0017
Language: en
Date: 2012-05-22 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the General Court (Third Chamber) of 22 May 2012.#Evropaïki Dynamiki - Proigmena Systimata Tilepikoinonion Pliroforikis kai Tilematikis AE v European Commission.#Public service contracts — Tender procedure — Provision of informatics services for an electronic exchange of social security information project (EESSI project) in the field of the coordination of social security for persons mobile in Europe — Rejection of bid submitted by a tenderer — Award of the contract — Duty to state reasons — Transparency — Equal treatment — Manifest error of assessment — No interest in bringing proceedings — Non-contractual liability.#Case T‑17/09.

Judgment of the General Court (Third Chamber) of 22 May 2012 — Evropaïki Dynamiki v Commission(Case T‑17/09)
      Public service contracts — Tender procedure — Provision of informatics services for an electronic exchange of social security information project (EESSI project) in the
         field of the coordination of social security for persons mobile in Europe — Rejection of bid submitted by a tenderer — Award of the contract — Duty to state reasons — Transparency — Equal treatment — Manifest error of assessment — No interest in bringing proceedings — Non-contractual liability
      
      1.                     EU public contracts — Conclusion of a contract following a call for tenders — Discretion of the institutions — Judicial review —
            Limits (see para. 37)
      2.                     Acts of the institutions — Statement of reasons — Obligation — Scope — Decision, under the procedure for the award of a public
            service contract, to reject a tender — Account taken, by way of reasoning, of the replies of an institution to the requests
            of a discarded tenderer — Condition (Art. 253 EC; Council Regulation No 1605/2002, Art. 100(2); Commission Regulation No 2342/2002,
            Art. 149(3)) (see paras 38-45, 56, 73)
      3.                     EU public contracts — Procedure for award of public contracts —Obligation to comply with the principles of equal treatment
            and non-discrimination against tenderers — Scope (Council Regulation No 1605/2002; Commission Regulation No 2342/2002) (see
            paras 65-68)
      4.                     Actions for annulment — Interest in bringing proceedings — Natural or legal persons — Action capable of securing a benefit
            for the applicant — Concept — Action by a tenderer, discarded before the stage preceding the decision to award a public contract,
            against the decision to award the contract to another tenderer — Not included — Inadmissibility (Art. 230, fourth para., EC)
            (see paras 114, 117-120)
      5.                     Non-contractual liability — Conditions — Unlawfulness — Damage — Causal link — Actual and certain damage — Damage arising
            through loss of earnings — Future and hypothetical damage — Inadmissibility (Art. 288, second para., EC) (see paras 122-123)
      6.                     Procedure — Costs — Order against the successful party to bear its own costs and pay those of the applicants — Condition (Rules
            of Procedure of the General Court, Art. 87(3)) (see paras 130-132)
      Re: 
      
         
               APPLICATION, first, for annulment of the Commission’s decision rejecting the tender submitted by the applicant in respect
                  of the call for tenders VT/2008/019 EMPL EESSI for the provision of informatics products and services for the EESSI project
                  (OJ 2008/S 111-148 213) and of the decision to award the contract to another tenderer and, secondly, 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 pay the costs.