Federal Act
on Public Procurement
(PPA)

¹ The con­tract­ing au­thor­ity shall no­ti­fy the ten­der­ers of its de­cisions by pub­lic­a­tion or in­di­vidu­al no­ti­fic­a­tion. The ten­der­ers have no right to be heard be­fore the de­cision is no­ti­fied.

² Ap­peal­able de­cisions must be sum­mar­ily sub­stan­ti­ated and in­clude in­struc­tions on rights of ap­peal.

³ The sum­mary sub­stan­ti­ation for an award shall in­clude:

a.

the type of pro­ced­ure and the name of the suc­cess­ful ten­der­er;

b.

the total price of the suc­cess­ful tender or, by way of ex­cep­tion, the low­est and highest total prices of the tenders sub­mit­ted in the award pro­ced­ure;

c.

the de­cis­ive fea­tures and ad­vant­ages of the suc­cess­ful tender;

d.

where ap­plic­able, the ra­tionale for us­ing the dir­ect award pro­ced­ure.

⁴ The con­tract­ing au­thor­ity may not dis­close any in­form­a­tion if dis­clos­ure would:

a.

vi­ol­ate ap­plic­able law or harm pub­lic in­terests;

b.

pre­ju­dice le­git­im­ate eco­nom­ic in­terests of the ten­der­ers; or

c.

jeop­ard­ise fair com­pet­i­tion between the ten­der­ers.