66In an in-house award, the contracting authority is deemed to use its own resources. Even if the contractor is legally distinct from the contracting authority, it is almost part of the contracting authority’s internal departments, where two conditions are satisfied: first, the contracting authority must exercise over the contractor a control similar to that which it exercises over its own departments; secondly, the entity must carry out the essential part of its activities for the benefit of the contracting authority or authorities which control it (see, to that effect, judgments of 18 November 1999, Teckal, C‑107/98, EU:C:1999:562, paragraph 50, and of 11 May 2006, Carbotermo and Consorzio Alisei, C‑340/04, EU:C:2006:308, paragraph 33).
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