Commissie verwijst Ierland door naar Europees Hof voor niet goed aanbesteden contract voor identificatieplaatjes voor dieren (en)
The European Commission has decided to refer Ireland to the European Court of Justice over the award procedure by the Department of Agriculture and Food for a public supply contract for animal identification tags.
The Commission considers that the arrangement entered into by the Irish authorities qualifies as a public supply contract and that the procedure for awarding the contract failed to respect the obligations under Article 53 of Directive 2004/18/EC as well as the principles of equal treatment and transparency as interpreted by the European Court of Justice. The Commission takes this view because the contracting authority applied criteria relating to tenderers' ability to perform the contract in question as award criteria instead of selection criteria, and also introduced weightings in the evaluation phase which modified the emphasis among the published award criteria.
Therefore, the Commission takes the view that the award procedure in question was not in conformity with EU law on public procurement.
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