75After the discovery of a conflict of interests between a member of the evaluation committee and one of the tenderers, the Commission must act with due diligence and on the basis of all the relevant information when formulating and adopting its decision on the outcome of the procedure for the award of the tender at issue. That obligation derives in particular from the principles of sound administration and equal treatment (see, by analogy, Case T-231/97 New Europe Consulting and Brown v Commission [1999] ECR II-2403, paragraph 41). The Commission is required to ensure at each stage of a tendering procedure equal treatment and, thereby, equality of opportunity for all the tenderers (see, to that effect, Case C-496/99 P Commission v CAS Succhi di Frutta [2004] ECR I-3801, paragraph 108, and Case T-145/98 ADT Projekt v Commission [2000] ECR II-387, paragraph 164).
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