Federal Act
on Public Procurement
(PPA)

¹ For goods, work and ser­vices to be provided in Switzer­land, the con­tract­ing au­thor­ity shall award a pub­lic con­tract only to ten­der­ers that com­ply with the work­place health and safety reg­u­la­tions and the terms and con­di­tions of em­ploy­ment ap­plic­able at the place of per­form­ance, the no­ti­fic­a­tion and au­thor­isa­tion du­ties in ac­cord­ance with the Fed­er­al Act of 17 June 2005¹¹ on Meas­ures to Com­bat Il­leg­al Em­ploy­ment (IEA) and the pro­vi­sions on the equal treat­ment of men and wo­men in terms of equal pay.

² For goods, work and ser­vices to be provided abroad, the con­tract­ing au­thor­ity shall award a pub­lic con­tract only to ten­der­ers that com­ply as a min­im­um with the Core Con­ven­tions of the In­ter­na­tion­al La­bour Or­gan­iz­a­tion (ILO) in ac­cord­ance with An­nex 6. In ad­di­tion, the con­tract­ing au­thor­ity may re­quire com­pli­ance with oth­er im­port­ant in­ter­na­tion­al la­bour stand­ards, as well as ap­pro­pri­ate evid­ence, and may ar­range for checks to be car­ried out.

³ The con­tract­ing au­thor­ity shall award a pub­lic con­tract only to ten­der­ers that com­ply as a min­im­um with the leg­al pro­vi­sions on the pro­tec­tion of the en­vir­on­ment and the con­ser­va­tion of nat­ur­al re­sources ap­plic­able at the place of per­form­ance; in Switzer­land, these in­clude the pro­vi­sions of Swiss en­vir­on­ment­al law, and abroad the in­ter­na­tion­al con­ven­tions for the pro­tec­tion of the en­vir­on­ment des­ig­nated by the Fed­er­al Coun­cil.

⁴ Sub­con­tract­ors are ob­liged to com­ply with the re­quire­ments set out in para­graphs 1 to 3. These ob­lig­a­tions must be in­cluded in the agree­ments between ten­der­ers and sub­con­tract­ors.

⁵ The con­tract­ing au­thor­ity may check com­pli­ance with the re­quire­ments set out in para­graphs 1 to 3 or out­source the task, provided this task was not del­eg­ated to an au­thor­ity gov­erned by spe­cial le­gis­la­tion or an­oth­er suit­able body, in par­tic­u­lar a su­per­vis­ory body with equal rep­res­ent­a­tion. The con­tract­ing au­thor­ity may provide the au­thor­ity or su­per­vis­ory body with the ne­ces­sary in­form­a­tion and doc­u­ments for car­ry­ing out these checks. The ten­der­er has to provide the evid­ence re­quired upon re­quest.

⁶ The au­thor­it­ies and su­per­vis­ory bod­ies re­spons­ible for en­sur­ing com­pli­ance with the re­quire­ments set out in para­graphs 1 to 3 re­port to the con­tract­ing au­thor­ity on the res­ults of the checks and on any meas­ures taken.