30As the Advocate General noted in points 42 and 43 of his Opinion, those two grounds for exclusion are 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. Thus, the first paragraph of recital 101 of Directive 2014/24 states that contracting authorities may exclude ‘economic operators which have proven unreliable’, while the second paragraph of that recital takes into consideration, in the performance of prior public contracts, ‘misbehaviour that casts serious doubts as to the reliability of the economic operator’.
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