Federal Act
on Public Procurement
(PPA)

¹ Ten­der­ers that were in­volved in the pre­par­a­tion of an award pro­ced­ure are not per­mit­ted to sub­mit a tender if the com­pet­it­ive ad­vant­age that they gain can­not be off­set by ap­pro­pri­ate means and if the ex­clu­sion does not jeop­ard­ise ef­fect­ive com­pet­i­tion between ten­der­ers.

² Ap­pro­pri­ate means of off­set­ting the com­pet­it­ive ad­vant­age in­clude in par­tic­u­lar:

a.

the dis­clos­ure of all ma­ter­i­al in­form­a­tion about the pre­par­at­ory work;

b.

the dis­clos­ure of the parties in­volved in the pre­par­at­ory work;

c.

the ex­ten­sion of min­im­um dead­lines.

³ Any mar­ket cla­ri­fic­a­tion by the con­tract­ing au­thor­ity pri­or to the pub­lic in­vit­a­tion to tender does not lead to pri­or in­volve­ment of the ten­der­ers in ques­tion. The con­tract­ing au­thor­ity dis­closes the res­ults of the mar­ket cla­ri­fic­a­tion in the tender doc­u­ment­a­tion.