Federal Act
on Public Procurement
(PPA)

¹ The con­tract­ing au­thor­ity eval­u­ates the tenders us­ing per­form­ance-re­lated award cri­ter­ia. In com­pli­ance with Switzer­land's in­ter­na­tion­al ob­lig­a­tions, it shall in par­tic­u­lar take in­to ac­count, be­sides the price and qual­ity, cri­ter­ia such as ap­pro­pri­ate­ness, time­frames, tech­nic­al value, eco­nom­ic ef­fi­ciency, life cycle costs, aes­thet­ics, sus­tain­able de­vel­op­ment, plaus­ib­il­ity of the tender, the dif­fer­ent price levels in the coun­tries where the sup­ply is provided, re­li­ab­il­ity of the price, cre­ativ­ity, cus­tom­er ser­vice, de­liv­ery con­di­tions, in­fra­struc­ture, in­nov­a­tion con­tent, func­tion­al­ity, ser­vice read­i­ness, ex­pert­ise or ef­fi­ciency of the meth­od­o­logy.

² Out­side the scope of in­ter­na­tion­al treat­ies, the con­tract­ing au­thor­ity may ad­di­tion­ally take in­to ac­count the ex­tent to which the ten­der­er provides ap­pren­tice­ships places, jobs for older em­ploy­ees or jobs to re­in­teg­rate long-term un­em­ployed people.

³ The con­tract­ing au­thor­ity shall in­dic­ate the award cri­ter­ia and their weight­ing in the in­vit­a­tion to tender or in the tender doc­u­ment­a­tion. The weight­ing may be omit­ted if the pro­cure­ment con­cerns solu­tions, pos­sible solu­tions or pro­ced­ures.

⁴ For stand­ard­ised ser­vices, the award may be made ex­clus­ively based on the low­est total price cri­terion, provided that the tech­nic­al spe­cific­a­tions for the goods, work or ser­vices guar­an­tee high sus­tain­ab­il­ity stand­ards in so­cial, en­vir­on­ment­al and eco­nom­ic terms.