Federal Act
on Public Procurement
(PPA)

¹ The Pub­lic Pro­cure­ment Com­mis­sion for the Con­fed­er­a­tion and the Can­tons (KBBK) is re­spons­ible for mon­it­or­ing Switzer­land's in­ter­na­tion­al ob­lig­a­tions in the area of pub­lic pro­cure­ment. It com­prises equal num­bers of rep­res­ent­at­ives of the Con­fed­er­a­tion and the can­tons. SECO is re­spons­ible for provid­ing the sec­ret­ari­at.

² The Pub­lic Pro­cure­ment Com­mis­sion per­forms the fol­low­ing tasks in par­tic­u­lar:

a.

pre­par­ing Switzer­land's po­s­i­tion in in­ter­na­tion­al bod­ies for the at­ten­tion of the Fed­er­al Coun­cil and ad­vising the Swiss ne­go­ti­ation del­eg­a­tions;

b.

pro­mot­ing the ex­change of in­form­a­tion and ex­per­i­ence between the Con­fed­er­a­tion and the can­tons, and draw­ing up re­com­mend­a­tions con­cern­ing the im­ple­ment­a­tion of in­ter­na­tion­al ob­lig­a­tions in Swiss law;

c.

fos­ter­ing con­tacts with for­eign su­per­vis­ory au­thor­it­ies;

d.

provid­ing ad­vice and me­di­at­ing in in­di­vidu­al cases in the event of dis­putes re­lat­ing to mat­ters re­ferred to un­der let­ters a to c.

³ If there are in­dic­a­tions that Switzer­land's in­ter­na­tion­al ob­lig­a­tions con­cern­ing pub­lic pro­cure­ment are be­ing vi­ol­ated, the KBBK may in­ter­vene with the fed­er­al or can­ton­al au­thor­it­ies and cause them to cla­ri­fy the cir­cum­stances and take the ne­ces­sary meas­ures if ir­reg­u­lar­it­ies are found.

⁴ The KBBK may pre­pare ex­pert re­ports or man­date ex­perts to do so.

⁵ The KBBK drafts its own reg­u­la­tions, which re­quire the ap­prov­al of the Fed­er­al Coun­cil and the In­ter­can­t­on­al Pub­lic Pro­cure­ment Body.