49Lastly, the Court considers that the Commission did not commit a manifest error in assessing the applicant's organizational ability. In this regard, the Court recalls that the Commission has a broad discretion in assessing the factors to be taken into account for the purpose of deciding to award a contract following an invitation to tender and the Court's review should be limited to checking that there has been no serious and manifest error (Case 56/77 Agence Européenne d'Intérims ν Commission [1978] ECR 2215, paragraph 20). In this case, the Court finds, with regard to the points awarded to the applicant for its customer service, that it is undisputed that the applicant's tender — unlike that of Ecco — made no reference to the quality of the customer service which it undertook to provide and hence the Commission made no manifest error of assessment in giving Ecco three points more than the applicant for its customer service. As regards the points awarded to the applicant for flexibility, unlike Ecco's tender, that of the applicant did not undertake to provide a ‘contact person’ently at the Commission's offices, with the result that the Commission did not make any manifest error of assessment in awarding Ecco two points more than the applicant for flexibility.
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