CELEX: 62009TJ0236
Language: en
Date: 2012-03-15
Title: Judgment of the General Court (Seventh Chamber) of 15 March 2012.#Evropaïki Dynamiki - Proigmena Systimata Tilepikoinonion Pliroforikis kai Tilematikis AE v European Commission.#Public service contracts — Tendering procedure — External service provision for development, studies and support of information systems — Rejection of a tenderer’s bids — Duty to state reasons — Equal treatment — Transparency — Manifest error of assessment — Non-contractual liability.#Case T-236/09.

Judgment of the General Court (Seventh Chamber) of 15 March 2012 — Evropaïki Dynamiki v Commission 
      (Case T-236/09)
      Public service contracts — Tendering procedure — External service provision for development, studies and support of information systems — Rejection of a tenderer’s bids — Duty to state reasons — Equal treatment — Transparency — Manifest error of assessment — Non-contractual liability
      1.                     Public contracts of the European Union — Tender procedure — Period of validity of tenders — Purpose — Possibility of the tendering
            authority asking tenderers for an extension of validity — No obligation on tenderers to accept the request — No obligation
            on tenderers to accept the request — No obligation to annul the procedure in the event of refusal (Commission Regulation No
            2342/2002, Art. 130(2)(c)) (see paras 37-40)
      2.                     Public contracts of the European Union — Tender procedure — Award of contracts — Exclusion of tenderers seriously in default
            of their obligations under another contract — Condition — Tenderers having been subject to an administrative penalty under
            Article 96(1) of the Financial Regulation (Council Regulation No 1605/2002, Arts 93(1)(f), 94 and 96(1); Commission Regulation
            No 2342/2002, Art. 134b) (see paras 50-51)
      3.                     Public contracts of the European Union — Tender procedure — Right for undertakings established in countries which are not
            signatories of the agreement on public contracts, or which use sub-contractors established in those countries, to participate
            in tendering procedures — Lawfulness (Council Regulation No 1605/2002, Arts 106 and 107) (see para. 55)
      4.                     Acts of the institutions — Statement of reasons — Obligation — Scope — Decision, in the award of a public contract, not to
            accept a tender — Assessment by reference to the circumstances of the particular case (Art. 253 EC; Council Regulation No
            605/2002, Art. 100(2); Commission Regulation No 2342/2002, Art. 149(3)) (see paras 76-80)
      5.                     Public contracts of the European Union — Conclusion of a contract following a call for tenders — Discretion of the institutions
            — Decision requiring a complex technical assessment — Judicial review — Limits (see paras 88, 111)
      6.                     Procedure — Application initiating proceedings — Formal requirements — Brief summary of the pleas in law on which the application
            is based — Mere allegation not supported by factual or legal explanations — Inadmissibility (Rules of Procedure of the General
            Court, Art. 44(1)(c)) (see paras 114-115)
      Re:
      
         
               APPLICATION, first, for annulment of the Commission’s decisions of 27 March 2009 rejecting the applicant’s tenders for, respectively,
                  lot 1, ‘On-site development expertise (intra muros)’, and lot 2, ‘Off-site development (extra muros)’, in Call for Tenders
                  RTD-R4-2007-001 on external service provision for development, studies and support of information systems for the Commission
                  (OJ 2007 S 238), and the decisions to award the lots to other tenderers and, second, 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
                     those incurred by the European Commission.