CELEX: 62021CB0316
Language: en
Date: 2021-10-06 00:00:00
Title: Case C-316/21: Order of the Court (Ninth Chamber) of 6 October 2021 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Raad van State — Belgium) — Monument Vandekerckhove NV v Stad Gent (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Article 99 of the Rules of Procedure of the Court of Justice — Directive 2014/24/EU — Conduct of the procedure — Choice of participants and award of contracts — Article 63 — Tenderer relying on the capacities of another entity in order to meet the requirements of the contracting authority — Failure to meet the requirements relating to the technical and professional ability of the tenderer by the entity on whose capacities the tenderer intends to rely — Obligation to allow that tenderer to replace that entity — Principle of proportionality)

7.2.2022   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 64/5
            
         
      Order of the Court (Ninth Chamber) of 6 October 2021 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Raad van State — Belgium) — Monument Vandekerckhove NV v Stad Gent
      (Case C-316/21) (1)
      
      (Reference for a preliminary ruling - Article 99 of the Rules of Procedure of the Court of Justice - Directive 2014/24/EU - Conduct of the procedure - Choice of participants and award of contracts - Article 63 - Tenderer relying on the capacities of another entity in order to meet the requirements of the contracting authority - Failure to meet the requirements relating to the technical and professional ability of the tenderer by the entity on whose capacities the tenderer intends to rely - Obligation to allow that tenderer to replace that entity - Principle of proportionality)
      (2022/C 64/06)
      Language of the case: Dutch
      
         Referring court
      
      Raad van State
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Applicant: Monument Vandekerckhove NV
      
         Defendant: Stad Gent
      
         Other parties: Denys NV, Aelterman BVBA
      
         Operative part of the order
      
      The second subparagraph of Article 63(1) of Directive 2014/24/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 February 2014 on public procurement and repealing Directive 2004/18/EC, read in conjunction with the principles of equal treatment, non-discrimination and proportionality as set out in Article 18(1) of that directive, must be interpreted as meaning that, where it ascertains that an entity on whose capacity an economic operator intends to rely does not fulfil the selection criteria, the contracting authority is obliged to request that the economic operator replace that entity, if it does not wish to be excluded from the public procurement procedure concerned.
      
         (1)  OJ C 320, 9.8.2021.