Federal Act
on Public Procurement
(PPA)

¹ The con­tract­ing au­thor­ity may hold an elec­tron­ic auc­tion for the pro­cure­ment of stand­ard­ised goods, work or ser­vices with­in the frame­work of a pro­ced­ure un­der this Act. In this case, the tenders are re­vised after an ini­tial full eval­u­ation and re-ranked us­ing elec­tron­ic aids and, if ne­ces­sary, mul­tiple rounds. Ref­er­ence must be made to this in the in­vit­a­tion to tender.

² The elec­tron­ic auc­tion cov­ers the fol­low­ing areas:

a.

prices where the con­tract is to be awar­ded to the ten­der­er with the low­est total price; or

b.

prices and val­ues for quan­ti­fi­able com­pon­ents such as weight, pur­ity or qual­ity where the con­tract is to be awar­ded to the most ad­vant­age­ous tender.

³ The con­tract­ing au­thor­ity checks wheth­er the ten­der­ers meet the eli­gib­il­ity cri­ter­ia and wheth­er the tenders ful­fil the tech­nic­al spe­cific­a­tions. It car­ries out an ini­tial eval­u­ation of the tenders based on the award cri­ter­ia and the weight­ing es­tab­lished for this pur­pose. Be­fore the auc­tion be­gins, it provides each ten­der­er with the fol­low­ing:

a.

the auto­mat­ic eval­u­ation meth­od, in­clud­ing the math­em­at­ic­al for­mula based on the award cri­ter­ia spe­cified;

b.

the res­ult of the ini­tial eval­u­ation of its tender; and

c.

all oth­er rel­ev­ant in­form­a­tion re­gard­ing the auc­tion pro­cess.

⁴ All eli­gible ten­der­ers are sim­ul­tan­eously in­vited elec­tron­ic­ally to sub­mit new or amended tenders. The con­tract­ing au­thor­ity may lim­it the num­ber of eli­gible ten­der­ers, provided it an­nounced this in the in­vit­a­tion to tender or in the tender doc­u­ment­a­tion.

⁵ The elec­tron­ic auc­tion may com­prise sev­er­al suc­cess­ive rounds. The con­tract­ing au­thor­ity in­forms all ten­der­ers of their rank in each round.