Akademiska Hus receives leave to appeal regarding LOU

The Administrative Court of Appeal’s ruling concerns a case in which the Swedish Competition Authority initiated proceedings requesting that Akademiska Hus be ordered to pay a public procurement fine for a general construction project regarding the new Skogishuset on the Umeå Campus. Akademiska Hus has appealed the ruling because the company believes that case law is unclear in this area since the Administrative Court of Appeal in Stockholm recently ruled that state-owned Sveaskog is not a contracting authority, while the Administrative Court of Appeal in Sundsvall now, without any reported reasons, made the opposite assessment of Akademiska Hus. The Supreme Administrative Court has decided to hear the case in order to get a final ruling from the highest court. 

“We are extremely pleased that we have been granted leave to appeal. “Besides the ambiguity regarding case law, we do not feel that the Administrative Court of Appeal correctly assessed the business that Akademiska Hus conducts. We are not an authority, we are a company that operates on a market-based terms”, says Kerstin Lindberg Göransson, President, Akademiska Hus. 

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