Federal Act
on Public Procurement
(PPA)

¹ This Act does not ap­ply to:

a.

the pro­cure­ment of goods, work and ser­vices with a view to com­mer­cial sale or re­sale, or with a view to use in the pro­duc­tion or sup­ply of goods, work and ser­vices for com­mer­cial sale or re­sale;

b.

the ac­quis­i­tion, rent­al or leas­ing of land, build­ings and in­stall­a­tions, and the cor­res­pond­ing rights thereto;

c.

the grant­ing of fin­an­cial as­sist­ance in ac­cord­ance with the Fed­er­al Act of 5 Oc­to­ber 1990¹⁰ on Fin­an­cial As­sist­ance and Sub­sidies;

d.

con­tracts for fin­an­cial ser­vices re­lat­ing to the is­su­ance, pur­chase, sale, trans­fer or man­age­ment of se­cur­it­ies or oth­er fin­an­cial in­stru­ments and cent­ral bank ser­vices;

e.

con­tracts with in­sti­tu­tions for the dis­abled, work in­teg­ra­tion or­gan­isa­tions, char­it­ies and pen­al in­sti­tu­tions;

f.

con­tracts un­der per­son­nel law;

g.

the fol­low­ing leg­al ser­vices:

1.

rep­res­ent­a­tion of the Con­fed­er­a­tion or a fed­er­al pub­lic cor­por­a­tion by a law­yer in na­tion­al or in­ter­na­tion­al ar­bit­ra­tion, con­cili­ation or court pro­ceed­ings and as­so­ci­ated ser­vices,

2.

leg­al ad­vice from a law­yer with re­gard to pos­sible pro­ceed­ings un­der num­ber 1 if there is a high prob­ab­il­ity that the mat­ter to which the ad­vice relates will be­come the sub­ject of such pro­ceed­ings;

h.

pro­cure­ments:

1.

with­in the frame­work of in­ter­na­tion­al hu­man­it­ari­an emer­gency as­sist­ance and ag­ri­cul­tur­al and nu­tri­tion­al sup­port,

2.

in ac­cord­ance with the spe­cif­ic pro­ced­ures or con­di­tions set out in an in­ter­na­tion­al agree­ment re­gard­ing the sta­tion­ing of troops or the joint im­ple­ment­a­tion of a pro­ject by sig­nat­ory states,

3.

car­ried out in ac­cord­ance with the spe­cif­ic pro­ced­ures or con­di­tions of an in­ter­na­tion­al or­gan­isa­tion or co-fin­anced by in­ter­na­tion­al fin­an­cial as­sist­ance, loans or oth­er forms of as­sist­ance if the pro­ced­ures or con­di­tions ap­plic­able would be in­com­pat­ible with this Act,

4.

with­in the frame­work of in­ter­na­tion­al co­oper­a­tion, provided that an equi­val­ent loc­al pro­ced­ure is fol­lowed in the re­cip­i­ent state;

i.

pub­lic pen­sion funds of the Con­fed­er­a­tion.

² The con­tract­ing au­thor­ity has to pre­pare doc­u­ment­a­tion on each con­tract awar­ded in ac­cord­ance with para­graph 1 let­ter h.

³ In ad­di­tion, this Act does not ap­ply to the pro­cure­ment of goods, work or ser­vices:

a.

from ten­der­ers that have an ex­clus­ive right to provide such goods, work or ser­vices;

b.

from oth­er, leg­ally in­de­pend­ent con­tract­ing au­thor­it­ies which are them­selves sub­ject to pro­cure­ment law, provided that these con­tract­ing au­thor­it­ies do not provide these goods, work and ser­vices in com­pet­i­tion with private ten­der­ers;

c.

from de­pend­ent or­gan­isa­tion­al units of the con­tract­ing au­thor­ity;

d.

from ten­der­ers over which the con­tract­ing au­thor­ity ex­er­cises con­trol identic­al to the con­trol over its own units, in­so­far as these ten­der­ers provide their goods, work or ser­vices for the most part for the con­tract­ing au­thor­ity.

⁴ Fur­ther­more, this Act does not ap­ply to pub­lic con­tracts:

a.

if this is deemed ne­ces­sary for the pro­tec­tion and main­ten­ance of ex­tern­al or in­tern­al se­cur­ity or pub­lic or­der;

b.

in­so­far as this is ne­ces­sary for the pro­tec­tion of hu­man health or life, or of flora and fauna;

c.

in­so­far as ten­der­ing would in­fringe in­tel­lec­tu­al prop­erty rights.