Federal Act
on Public Procurement
(PPA)

¹ Solely the fol­low­ing may be con­tested by ap­peal:

a.

the in­vit­a­tion to tender for the con­tract;

b.

the de­cision on the choice of ten­der­ers in the se­lect­ive pro­ced­ure;

c.

the de­cision to in­clude a ten­der­er on a list or to re­move a ten­der­er from a list;

d.

the de­cision on re­cus­al re­quests;

e.

the award;

f.

the re­voc­a­tion of the award;

g.

the aban­don­ment of the pro­ced­ure;

h.

ex­clu­sion from the pro­ced­ure;

i.

the im­pos­i­tion of a sanc­tion.

² Or­ders in the tender doc­u­ment­a­tion whose sig­ni­fic­ance is ap­par­ent may be chal­lenged only with­in the frame­work of an ap­peal against the in­vit­a­tion to tender.

³ The pro­vi­sions of this Act on the right to be heard in the de­cision-mak­ing pro­ced­ure, on sus­pens­ive ef­fect and on lim­it­ing the grounds for ap­peal do not ap­ply to ap­peals against the im­pos­i­tion of a sanc­tion.

⁴ De­cisions un­der para­graph 1 let­ters c and i may be ap­pealed ir­re­spect­ive of the value of the con­tract.

⁵ There are no fur­ther rights of ap­peal against de­cisions un­der this Act.

⁶ There is no right of ap­peal against the con­clu­sion of in­di­vidu­al con­tracts in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 25 para­graphs 4 and 5.