CELEX: 62020TA0404
Language: en
Date: 2021-10-06 00:00:00
Title: Case T-404/20: Judgment of the General Court of 6 October 2021 — Global Translation Solutions v Commission (Public service contracts — Tendering procedure — Translation services — Rejection of a tenderer’s bid — Award of the contract to another tenderer — Award criteria — Method of evaluation — Manifest error of assessment — Equal treatment — Transparency — Obligation to state reasons — Duty of diligence — Principle of sound administration)

29.11.2021   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 481/25
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 6 October 2021 — Global Translation Solutions v Commission
      (Case T-404/20) (1)
      
      (Public service contracts - Tendering procedure - Translation services - Rejection of a tenderer’s bid - Award of the contract to another tenderer - Award criteria - Method of evaluation - Manifest error of assessment - Equal treatment - Transparency - Obligation to state reasons - Duty of diligence - Principle of sound administration)
      (2021/C 481/35)
      Language of the case: English
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Global Translation Solutions ltd. (Valletta, Malta) (represented by: C. Mifsud-Bonnici, lawyer)
      
         Defendant: European Commission (represented by: A. Katsimerou, L. André and M. Ilkova, acting as Agents)
      
         Re:
      
      Application under Article 263 TFEU for annulment of the Commission’s decision contained in the letter of 17 April 2020 rejecting the tender submitted by the applicant for Lot 22 (EN>MT) in tendering procedure TRAD 19 and awarding that lot to another tenderer, and for annulment of ‘all related decisions’.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Dismisses the action;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders Global Translation Solutions ltd. to pay the costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 297, 7.9.2020.