Federal Act
on Public Procurement
(PPA)

Where this in­form­a­tion is not already con­tained in the in­vit­a­tion to tender, the tender doc­u­ment­a­tion provides the fol­low­ing in­form­a­tion:

a.

name and ad­dress of the con­tract­ing au­thor­ity;

b.

the sub­ject of the pro­cure­ment, in­clud­ing tech­nic­al spe­cific­a­tions and cer­ti­fic­ates of con­form­ity, plans, draw­ings and ne­ces­sary in­struc­tions, as well as in­form­a­tion on the quant­ity needed;

c.

form­al re­quire­ments and par­ti­cip­a­tion con­di­tions for the ten­der­ers, in­clud­ing a list of data and doc­u­ments that the ten­der­ers must sub­mit in con­nec­tion with the par­ti­cip­a­tion con­di­tions, as well as any weight­ing of the eli­gib­il­ity cri­ter­ia;

d.

the award cri­ter­ia and their weight­ing;

e.

if the con­tract­ing au­thor­ity pro­cesses the pro­cure­ment elec­tron­ic­ally: any au­then­tic­a­tion and en­cryp­tion re­quire­ments for the elec­tron­ic sub­mis­sion of in­form­a­tion;

f.

if the con­tract­ing au­thor­ity en­vis­ages an elec­tron­ic auc­tion: the rules for con­duct­ing the auc­tion, in­clud­ing the in­dic­a­tion of those tender com­pon­ents which may be ad­ap­ted and which will be eval­u­ated based on the award cri­ter­ia;

g.

the date, time and place for tender open­ing if the tenders are opened pub­licly;

h.

all oth­er terms and con­di­tions ne­ces­sary for the pre­par­a­tion of tenders, par­tic­u­larly the spe­cific­a­tion of the cur­rency in which the tender is to be sub­mit­ted (usu­ally Swiss francs);

i.

time­frames for the pro­vi­sion of the goods, work or ser­vices.