CESL Asia, Focus Aqua appeal DSSOPT dispatch decision

The Court of Final Appeal (TUI) has denied a plea from CESL Asia Investments and Services, S.A. and Focus Aqua, Limited to annul a dispatch from the Secretary for Land, Public Works, and Transport (DSSOPT) which defined the programme, specifications and other elements of the procedure of a public tender for the attribution of a contract of operation and maintenance of the Residual Water Treatment Station on the Macau Peninsula.
According to official information, TUI has denied the appeal on the claim that the petitioners filed a demand to annul the regulatory norms of the procedure, with the High Court contending that the texts regulating the tender constitute administrative acts.
TUI concluded there was an error in the form of process.
The companies had previously requested of the Court of Second Appeal the annulment of a dispatch published on March 29, 2016 by the DSSOPT Secretary, which was rejected on February 16, 2017 on the same premise.