The French Conseil d’État (1) rejects the cancellation request of the previously awarded contract to establish a heavy goods vehicles ecoûtax system.
On February 8, 2011, Autostrade per l’Italia was awarded a partnership contract* for financing, design, construction, operation and maintenance of the heavy goods vehicle ecoûtax collection and control system. Valued at more than EUR 2 billion, the contract should have been valid for fourteen years.
Upon request of several disappointed bidders, the administrative court of Cergy-Pontoise had ordered, on March 8, the cancellation of the awarded contract.
The French Ministry of Ecology and Autostrade per l’Italia had therefore seized the Court of Cassation and the Conseil d’État rejected the cancellation request on June 24, 2011.
* see the “Heavy goods vehicles ecoûtax system” press release, dated January 24, 2011 (available on www.steria.fr and www.steria.com).
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