Judgment_paragraph 26 · Delta Antrepriză de Construcţii şi Montaj 93 SA v Compania Naţională de Administrare a Infrastructurii Rutiere SA (C-267/18)

26The option available to any contracting authority to exclude a tenderer from a procurement procedure is particularly intended to enable it to assess the integrity and reliability of each of the tenderers. In particular, the optional ground for exclusion mentioned in Article 57(4)(g) of Directive 2014/24, read in conjunction with recital 101 of that directive, is based on an essential element of the relationship between the successful tenderer and the contracting authority, namely the reliability of the successful tenderer, on which the contracting authority’s trust is founded (see, to that effect, judgment of 19 June 2019, Meca, C‑41/18, EU:C:2019:507, paragraphs 29 and 30).