Federal Act
on Public Procurement
(PPA)

¹ The con­tract­ing au­thor­ity may re­duce the min­im­um dead­lines set out in Art­icle 46 para­graph 2 to no short­er than 10 days in cases of proven ur­gency.

² It may re­duce the min­im­um 40-day dead­line for sub­mit­ting tenders un­der Art­icle 46 para­graph 2 by 5 days if:

a.

the in­vit­a­tion to tender is pub­lished elec­tron­ic­ally;

b.

the tender doc­u­ment­a­tion is sim­ul­tan­eously pub­lished elec­tron­ic­ally;

c.

tenders are re­ceived elec­tron­ic­ally.

³ It may re­duce the min­im­um 40-day peri­od for sub­mit­ting tenders un­der Art­icle 46 para­graph 2 to no short­er than 10 days, provided it has pub­lished a pri­or no­tice with the fol­low­ing con­tent at least 40 days and no more than 12 months be­fore pub­lic­a­tion of the in­vit­a­tion to tender:

a.

sub­ject of the in­ten­ded pro­cure­ment;

b.

ap­prox­im­ate time­frame for sub­mit­ting tenders or re­quests to par­ti­cip­ate;

c.

the fact that in­ter­ested ten­der­ers should in­form the con­tract­ing au­thor­ity of their in­terest in the pro­cure­ment;

d.

where the tender doc­u­ment­a­tion can be ob­tained;

e.

all oth­er in­form­a­tion un­der Art­icle 35 that is already avail­able at that time.

⁴ It may re­duce the min­im­um 40-day peri­od for sub­mit­ting tenders un­der Art­icle 46 para­graph 2 to no short­er than 10 days if it is pro­cur­ing goods, work or ser­vices re­quired on a re­cur­ring basis and giv­en no­tice of the short­en­ing of the peri­od in an earli­er in­vit­a­tion to tender.

⁵ Fur­ther­more, the con­tract­ing au­thor­ity may in any event re­duce the dead­line for sub­mit­ting tenders to no short­er than 13 days when pur­chas­ing com­mer­cial goods, work or ser­vices or a com­bin­a­tion of the two, provided it elec­tron­ic­ally pub­lishes the tender doc­u­ment­a­tion to­geth­er with the in­vit­a­tion to tender. If the con­tract­ing au­thor­ity ac­cepts tenders for com­mer­cial goods, work or ser­vices elec­tron­ic­ally, it may also re­duce the dead­line to no short­er than 10 days.