Questão jurídica principal
Whether the refusal to grant access to the competitor's bid file violated the right to be heard and procurement confidentiality rules.
Decisão extraída
No. In procurement proceedings, competitor bids remain protected as confidential business secrets; the appellant had no general right to inspect the full bid file.
Fundamentação extraída
The court held that neither Art. 29(2) BV nor Art. 11(g) IVoeB gives a losing bidder access to the whole competitor offer. Only the legally required grounds for the award must be disclosed, and the appellant advanced no specific reasons for partial disclosure.