84It must be pointed out, first, that under Article 53(1)(a) of Directive 2004/18, where, as in the present case, a contracting authority decides to award a contract to the tenderer who submits the most economically advantageous tender from the point of view of that authority, the authority must base its decision on various criteria which are for it to determine in compliance with the requirements of the directive, that provision containing, as follows from the use of the phrase ‘for example’, a non-exhaustive list of the possible criteria.
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