On October 9, the Lithuanian Supreme Court decided to refer questions to the European court, because the dispute involved applying EU legislation.
Israel's eVigilo turned to the court over a tender issued by the Lithuanian Fire and Rescue Department in 2010 for the development of a system for public warnings via mobile phones.
A consortium of NT Service and HNIT-Baltic won the tender in 2010 with a bid worth 15 million litas (EUR 4.35m) plus 1.5 million litas in annual maintenance costs. A consortium of Inta, eVigilo and EPR, the runner-up, asked almost 0.5 million litas less for their services, but their price for the annual maintenance of the program was over 5.5 million litas.
