Judgment of the General Court (Second Chamber) of 20 September 2011.#Evropaïki Dynamiki - Proigmena Systimata Tilepikoinonion Pliroforikis kai Tilematikis AE v European Commission.#Public service contracts - Community tendering procedure - Supply of external services for educational programmes - Award of the contract to several tenderers - Tenderer’s ranking - Action for annulment - Obligation to state the reasons on which the decision is based - Grounds for exclusion from the contract award procedure - Article 93(1)(f) of the Financial Regulation - Tender validity period - Non-contractual liability.#Case T-298/09.

Subject of the case

Re:

APPLICATION, first, for annulment of two Commission decisions, communicated in two separate letters of 12 May 2009 ranking the applicant, for its tenders in response to the open call for tenders EAC/01/2008 for external service provision for educational programmes (ESP-ISEP) (OJ 2008/S 158-212752), for Lot No 1 (IS (information system) Development and Maintenance) and for Lot No 2 (IS (information system) Studies, Testing, Training and Support), as second contractor for each of those lots and, secondly, for damages.

Operative part

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 Commission.