Federal Act
on Public Procurement
(PPA)

¹ Per­sons may not par­ti­cip­ate in the award pro­ced­ure on the con­tract­ing au­thor­ity's be­half or in a pan­el of ex­perts if they:

a.

have a per­son­al in­terest in a con­tract;

b.

are con­nec­ted to a ten­der­er or a mem­ber of one of its gov­ern­ing bod­ies by mar­riage or re­gistered part­ner­ship, or co­hab­it de facto with this party;

c.

are re­lated to a ten­der­er or a mem­ber of one of its gov­ern­ing bod­ies by blood or by mar­riage in a dir­ect line or col­lat­er­ally to the third de­gree;

d.

are rep­res­ent­at­ives of a ten­der­er or worked for a ten­der­er on the same mat­ter; or

e.

lack the in­de­pend­ence ne­ces­sary to carry out pub­lic pro­cure­ments for oth­er reas­ons.

² A re­cus­al re­quest must be sub­mit­ted im­me­di­ately after the reas­on for re­cus­al be­comes known.

³ De­cisions on re­cus­al re­quests are made by the con­tract­ing au­thor­ity or the pan­el of ex­perts, ex­clud­ing the per­son con­cerned.