Europa Article 29(5) of Council Directive 71/305, from which the Member States may not depart to any material extent when implementing it, prohibits Member States from introducing provisions which require the automatic disqualification from the award of public works contracts of certain tenders determined according to a mathematical criterion, instead of obliging the awarding authority to apply the examination procedure laid down in the directive, giving the tenderer an opportunity to furnish explanations.
The Member States may require that tenders be examined when those tenders appear to be abnormally low, and not only when they are obviously abnormally low.
(In this judgment the Court’ s ruling is in the same terms as those of the judgment in Case 103/88 Fratelli Costanzo v Comune di Milano [1989] ECR I-1839, in which the questions referred to it were essentially the same.)
Citations:
C-295/89, [1991] EUECJ C-295/89
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Updated: 01 June 2022; Ref: scu.160344