Judgment of the General Court of 22 April 2015 — Evropaïki Dynamiki v Frontex
(Case T-554/10) 1
(Public procurement — Tendering procedures — Information technology services, hardware and software licences — Rejection of a tenderer’s bids — Obligation to state reasons — Selection and award criteria — Manifest error of assessment — Non-contractual liability)
Language of the case: English
Parties
Applicant: Evropaïki Dynamiki ― Proigmena Systimata Tilepikoinonion Pliroforikis kai Tilematikis AE (Athens, Greece) (represented by: N. Korogiannakis and M. Dermitzakis, lawyers)Defendant: European Agency for the Management of Operational Cooperation at the External Borders of the Member States of the European Union (Frontex) (represented by: S. Vuorensola and H. Caniard, acting as Agents, and by J. Stuyck and A.-M. Vandromme, lawyers)Re:Applica
i ― Proigmena Systimata Tilepikoinonion Pliroforikis kai Tilematikis AE (Athens, Greece) (represented by: N. Korogiannakis and M. Dermitzakis, lawyers)Defendant: European Ag
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field of information technologies and communications (OJ 2010/S 90-134098), and also of all associated decisions, including the decisions to award the contracts to other tenderers, and, secondly, for damages for the harm allegedly sustained as a result of the contracts being awarded to those tenderers.Operative part of the judgmentThe Court:Annuls the decision of the European Agency for the Management of Operational Cooperation at the External Borders of the Member States of the European Union (Frontex) of 18 October 2010 to reject the bid of Evropaïki Dynamiki — Proigmena Systimata Tilepikoinonion Pliroforikis kai Tilematikis AE, filed in response to c
all for tenders 2010/S 66-09832
3, for Lot
1 (Information systems), for the supply of informatics services, hardware and software licences;Annuls the decision of Frontex of 18 October 2010 to reject the bid of Evropaïki Dynamiki — Proigmena Systimata Tilepikoinonion Pliroforikis kai Tilematikis AE, filed in response to call for tenders 2010/S 66-098323, for Lot 6 (Enterprise content management systems), for the supply of informatics services, hardware and software licences;Dismisses the action
as to the remainder;Orders Evropaïki Dynamiki — Proigmena Systimata Tilepikoinonion Pliroforikis kai Tilematikis AE to bear 50% of its own costs and pay 50% of the costs incurred by Frontex, and Frontex to bear 50% of its own costs and pay 50% of those incurred by Evropaïki Dynamiki — Proigmena Systimata Tilepikoinonion Pliroforikis kai
Tilematikis AE.