Federal Act
on Public Procurement
(PPA)

¹ When set­ting the dead­lines for sub­mit­ting tenders or re­quests to par­ti­cip­ate, the con­tract­ing au­thor­ity shall take ac­count of the com­plex­ity of the con­tract, the prob­able num­ber of sub­con­tracts and the mode of trans­mis­sion.

² The fol­low­ing min­im­um dead­lines ap­ply with­in the scope of in­ter­na­tion­al treat­ies:

a.

in an open pro­ced­ure: 40 days from pub­lic­a­tion of the in­vit­a­tion to tender for the sub­mis­sion of tenders;

b.

in a se­lect­ive pro­ced­ure: 25 days from pub­lic­a­tion of the in­vit­a­tion to tender for the sub­mis­sion of re­quests to par­ti­cip­ate and 40 days from the in­vit­a­tion to pre­pare tenders for the sub­mis­sion of tenders.

³ Any ex­ten­sion of these dead­lines must be pub­lished or no­ti­fied to all ten­der­ers in good time.

⁴ Out­side the scope of in­ter­na­tion­al treat­ies, the dead­line for sub­mit­ting tenders is gen­er­ally at least 20 days. In the case of largely stand­ard­ised goods, work and ser­vices, the dead­line may be re­duced to no short­er than 5 days.