Order of the General Court (Sixth Chamber) of 3 November 2014 —
Secolux v Commission and CdT

(Case T‑90/14)

Action for annulment and for compensation — Public supply contracts — Tender procedure — Safety Checks — Rejection of a tenderer’s tender — Misidentification of the defendant — Partial manifest inadmissibility

1.                     Actions for annulment — Capacity to be a defendant — Publications Office of the European Union — Not a body, office or agency of the EU — Measures adopted in the context of a public tendering procedure for services — Attributability to the Commission — Application inadmissible (Art. 263 TFEU; Decision of the European Parliament, the Council, the Commission, the Court of Justice, the Court of Auditors, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions 2009/496, Art. 13(2)) (see para. 16)

2.                     Actions for annulment — Commission decision, in a public tendering procedure for services, not to accept a tender — Action against the Translation Centre for Bodies of the European Union — Inadmissibility (Art. 263 TFEU) (see para. 17)

Re:

First, an application for the annulment of (i) the Commission’s decision of 3 December 2013 rejecting the tender submitted by the applicant in the open call for tenders AO 02/2013/OIL, for the conclusion of a framework agreement for the provision of services relating to safety checks (OJ 2013/S 156-271471), and (ii) the decision to award the contract to another tenderer and, secondly, a claim for damages.

Operative part

1. The action is dismissed as manifestly inadmissible in so far as it is directed against the Translation Centre for Bodies of the European Union (CdT) and the Publications Office of the European Union (OP).

2. The applicant is ordered to bear its own costs in the action in so far as it is directed against the CdT and the OP.