Judgment of the General Court of 4 February 2016 — PRIMA v Commission

(Case T-722/14) (1)

((Public service contracts - Tendering procedure - Support for the European Commission representative in Bulgaria in the context of the organization of public events - Rejection of tender submitted by a tenderer and award of the contract to another tenderer - Award criteria - Obligation to state reasons - Concept of relative advantages of the successful tender - Transparency))

(2016/C 106/37)

Language of the case: Bulgarian

Parties

Applicants: PRIMA — Produtsentska, reklamna, informatsionna i mediyna agentsia AD (Sofia, Bulgaria) (represented by: Y. Ruskov, lawyer)

Defendant: European Commission (represented by: L. Di Paolo, P. Mihaylova and D. Roussanov, acting as Agents)

Re:

Application for annulment of, first, the decision of the European Commission of 12 August 2014 rejecting the tender submitted by the applicant in the context of the call for tenders PO/2013 13/SOF relating to support for the European Commission representative in Bulgaria in the context of the organization of public events, and awarding the contract to another tenderer and, second, the ‘subsequent decisions’, including that of 12 September 2014 to conclude the contract for its performance.

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

(1)  OJ C 462, 22.12.2014.