{"id":7068,"date":"2025-02-25T09:23:21","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T08:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rihs.law\/?p=7068"},"modified":"2025-02-25T09:23:21","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T08:23:21","slug":"wrongfully-excluded-from-a-procurement-procedure-know-your-legal-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rihs-old.mycodingbase.at\/en\/news\/wrongfully-excluded-from-a-procurement-procedure-know-your-legal-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Successful challenge: Federal Administrative Court overturns unlawful exclusion from award procedure!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wrongful exclusion from a procurement procedure? The Federal Administrative Court has set aside the decision to exclude our client from the procurement procedure!
\n<\/strong>Successful challenge of an award decision before the Federal Administrative Court (BVwG).<\/strong><\/p>\n

Have you been wrongly excluded from a public procurement procedure? Do you or your company feel discriminated against in a public procurement procedure because the contracting authority wrongly denies you professional reliability?
\nIf you are looking for a specialized law firm in procurement law that has already successfully taken action against incorrect procurement decisions, you have come to the right place. We regularly advise clients on procurement law and publish in specialist journals. You can find more about our procurement law publications under Publications. We pay particular attention to questions of bidders’ legal protection:
\nOur law firm recently successfully defended a client against unlawful exclusion \u2013 with complete success!
\nOn November 21, 2024, the Federal Administrative Court ruled in favor of our client in case W606 2299837-2<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The case in question \u2013 What happened?<\/h1>\n

Our client had applied for a public contract (framework agreement for the delivery of hardware and software) from a large Austrian sectoral contracting authority. The contracting authority excluded our client’s bid without giving it the opportunity to comment on the reason for the exclusion or to prove \u201cself-cleaning\u201d.
\nThe deadline for submitting requests to participate had not yet expired. Our client addressed questions regarding the tender documents to the contracting authority (sectoral contracting authority), which the contracting authority failed to answer. The contracting authority \u2013 in this case a sectoral contracting authority \u2013 denied our client access to the procurement platform and thus effectively excluded her from any further communication.<\/p>\n

The decision \u2013 What did the\u00a0BVwG\u00a0decide?<\/h1>\n

The FAC found that the contracting authority had violated public procurement principles by not giving our client the opportunity to respond to its allegations and thus denying \u201cself-cleaning\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cSelf-cleaning\u201d to restore (allegedly) lacking professional reliability<\/h1>\n

Public contracts should only be awarded to appropriately qualified, authorized and reliable companies. Professional reliability can be lost, for example, through antitrust violations, violations of the obligation to pay social security contributions, violations of the provisions of the Wage and Social Dumping Prevention Act (LSD-BG) or of the provisions of the Foreign Nationals Employment Act (AuslBG). Austrian public procurement law (BVergG 2018) provides for the possibility of \u201cself-cleaning\u201d in the event of an alleged deficiency (Section 83 BVergG 2018).<\/p>\n

\u201cSelf-cleaning\u201d in the procurement procedure<\/h1>\n

A contracting authority is obliged to confront the candidate or tenderer with the alleged reasons for the lack of reliability before exclusion or a decision to eliminate them. The candidate or tenderer must have the opportunity to comment on these allegations and to provide evidence of self-cleaning measures.
\nIf a candidate\/tenderer can prove that they have taken specific technical, organizational, personnel-related or other measures to avoid future violations, they can provide the contracting authority with corresponding evidence in response to the allegations. The contracting authority must review these.
\nIn this case, the contracting authority did not give our client the opportunity to comment on the assumption of a lack of professional reliability and to provide evidence of self-cleaning measures. This led to the annulment of the exclusion decision.<\/p>\n

The outcome \u2013 What are the legal consequences of the BVwG’s decision?<\/h1>\n

Our client was able to participate in the further procurement procedure. The contracting authority had to set a new deadline for the submission of requests to participate and grant our client access to its procurement platform.
\nThis means that candidates have the right to correct defects accepted by the contracting authority before exclusion or to provide clarifications to prove their professional reliability!
\nHave you also been wrongly excluded from a procurement procedure?<\/p>\n

The relevance of the decision for you and your company<\/h1>\n

An erroneous exclusion has serious consequences for the competition that public procurement law is supposed to promote. Not every contracting authority acts in accordance with the law \u2013 a challenge can be worthwhile!
\nOur law firm specializes in public procurement law and has already successfully conducted numerous review proceedings against erroneous procurement decisions.<\/p>\n

Make an appointment now for an initial consultation<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Successful challenge in public procurement law \u2013 We enforce your rights! Have you been unlawfully excluded from a public procurement procedure? Our law firm has once again proven that it is worth challenging! The Federal Administrative Court (BVwG) has annulled an erroneous award decision \u2013 a great success for our client. Read more about this case and other current developments in public procurement law in our blog post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7065,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[129,49],"tags":[275],"yoast_head":"\nSuccessful challenge: Federal Administrative Court overturns unlawful exclusion from award procedure! — RIHS Rechtsanwalt GmbH<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Erfahren Sie mehr zum Thema: Successful challenge: Federal Administrative Court overturns unlawful exclusion from award procedure! Unjust exclusion from a procurement procedure? The Federal Administrative Court ruled in favor of our client. 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