Federal Act
on Public Procurement
(PPA)

¹ The con­tract­ing au­thor­it­ies' de­cisions may be ap­pealed to the Fed­er­al Ad­min­is­trat­ive Court:

a.

in the case of sup­plies of goods or ser­vices: when the con­tract value ex­ceeds the ap­plic­able threshold for the in­vit­a­tion pro­ced­ure;

b.

in the case of con­struc­tion work: when the con­tract value ex­ceeds the ap­plic­able threshold for the open or se­lect­ive pro­ced­ure.

² In the case of con­tracts out­side the scope of in­ter­na­tion­al treat­ies, the ap­peal may only seek a de­clar­a­tion that a de­cision vi­ol­ates fed­er­al law; this does not ap­ply to ap­peals against de­cisions in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 53 para­graph 1 let­ter i. For­eign ten­der­ers may ap­peal if the state in which they are dom­i­ciled grants re­cip­roc­al rights.

³ The Fed­er­al Su­preme Court has dir­ect jur­is­dic­tion for ap­peals against pro­cure­ments of the Fed­er­al Ad­min­is­trat­ive Court.

⁴ The Fed­er­al Su­preme Court shall ap­point an in­tern­al ap­peals com­mit­tee to as­sess ap­peals against Fed­er­al Su­preme Court pro­cure­ments.

⁵ There is no right of ap­peal against the award of the pub­lic con­tracts re­ferred to in An­nex 5 sec­tion 1 let­ters c and d.