VASS Lawyers, law firm specializing in public procurement, litigation and arbitration, enjoys a new important success, this time in Alba Iulia Court of Appeal. Alba Iulia Court of Appeal dismissed the complaint filed by the National Gas Company Romgaz SA against the decision of the National Council for Solving Complaints to revaluate the tenders submitted in the open tendering procedure for “Tubular material – Tubes / pipes extraction”.
Thus, VASS Lawyers obtains for the international consortium which includes DNEPROVSKY Pipes Plant from Ukraine, a final and irrevocable decision concerning a procedure with an estimated value of RON 12,850,000. Although N.C.S.C. upheld the appeal lodged against the decision to award the contract to the consortium SC C & V Varga Business SRL – EFCO Oilfields, Romgaz chose to use a final appeal and filed in the complaint against N.C.S.C.’s decision.
On May 2, 2012, Alba-Iulia Court of Appeal dismissed the complaint submitted by the contracting authority. Therefore, Romgaz is -forced to cancel the awarding procedure report and all its subsequent acts, and to resume the tendering procedure by reanalysing the admissibility of the tender submitted by the consortium declared winner, according to motivation presented within N.C.S.C.’s decision.
This is merely the latest success of VASS Lawyers litigation and arbitration team. In February 2012, VASS Lawyers won for the second time the annulment of the decision to exclude Mochlos SA from an awarding procedure organized by CNADNR, worth over 140 million RON, winning the appeals submitted both to N.C.S.C and to the Bucharest Court of Appeal. Also, in March 2012, VASS Lawyers won for the fifth consecutive time the annulment of contracting authority decisions of exclusion from the procedure or of cancellation of the awarding procedure of a major works contract. Thus, VASS Lawyers won all the complaints submitted to the Bacau Court of Appeal against the N.C.S.C.’s decisions in this case. The final result are compelling – the almost two year’s battle in court ended by clenching the contract of public works in April 2012.