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Document 62007TJ0476

Evropaïki Dynamiki v Frontex

Judgment of the General Court (Fifth Chamber) of 12 July 2012 — Evropaïki Dynamiki v Frontex

(Case T-476/07)

‛Public service contracts — Frontex tendering procedures — Provision of informatics services — Rejection of a tender — Action for annulment — Admissibility — Obligation to state reasons — Award criteria — Manifest error of assessment — Non-contractual liability’

1. 

EU budget — Financial regulation — Provisions applicable to procedures for awarding public contracts — Scope — Public contracts awarded by bodies created by the EU, having legal personality and receiving subsidies from that budget — Award of Frontex service contracts — Included (Council Regulations No 1605/2002, Arts 105 and 185(1), and No 2007/2004, Art. 32; Commission Regulation No 2343/2002, Art. 74(1); European Parliament and Council Directive 2004/18, Art. 84; Council Directive 89/665, Art. 6) (see paras 34-41)

2. 

EU public contracts — Conclusion of a contract following a call for tenders — Discretion of the institutions — Judicial review — Limits (Council Regulation No 1605/2002; Commission Regulation No 2342/2002) (see paras 46, 47, 112)

3. 

Acts of the institutions — Statement of reasons — Obligation — Scope — Decision, in the course of the procedure for the award of a public service contract, not to accept a tender — Reasoning to be communicated to the tenderer in time for the latter to bring an action (Art. 253 EC; Council Regulation No 1605/2002, Art. 100(2); Commission Regulation No 2342/2002, Art. 149(2)) (see paras 57-59, 66, 70, 72, 73)

Re:

First, annulment of Frontex’s decision rejecting the tender submitted by the applicant in response to the call for tenders Frontex/OP/47/2007 for the provision of ‘informatics services, hardware, and software licences’ (OJ 2007/S 114-139890) and of the decision to award the contract to a different tenderer and, secondly, a claim for damages.

Operative part

The Court:

1. 

Dismisses the action;

2. 

Orders Evropaïki Dynamiki — Proigmena Systimata Tilepikoinonion Pliroforikis kai Tilematikis AE to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by the European Agency for the Management of Operational Cooperation at the External Borders of the Member States of the European Union (Frontex), including those reserved by the order of the General Court of 28 October 2008.
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