36Similarly, recital 74 of Directive 2014/24 specifies that technical specifications should be ‘drafted in such a way as to avoid artificially narrowing down competition through requirements that favour a specific economic operator by mirroring key characteristics of the supplies, services or works habitually offered by that economic operator’. Also according to that recital, ‘it should be possible to submit tenders that reflect the diversity of technical solutions standards and technical specifications in the marketplace’.
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