Judgment_paragraph 57 · Computer Resources International (Luxembourg) SA v European Commission (T-422/11)

57As a preliminary point, it must be borne in mind that, under the provisions of Article 139(1) of the Implementing Rules, the contracting authority is obliged to allow the tenderer to clarify, or even explain, the characteristics of its tender before rejecting it, if it considers that a tender is abnormally low. Consequently, the obligation to check the seriousness of a tender arises where there are doubts beforehand as to its reliability, also bearing in mind that the main purpose of that article is to enable a tenderer not to be excluded from the procedure without having had an opportunity to explain the terms of its tender which appears abnormally low (judgment of 11 May 2010 in PC-Ware Information Technologies v Commission, T‑121/08, ECR, EU:T:2010:183, paragraph 72 and the case-law cited).

Computer Resources International (Luxembourg) SA v European Commission (T-422/11)

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