Federal Act
on Public Procurement
(PPA)

The pub­lic­a­tion of an in­vit­a­tion to tender con­tains at least the fol­low­ing in­form­a­tion:

a.

name and ad­dress of the con­tract­ing au­thor­ity;

b.

type of con­tract and pro­ced­ure and the rel­ev­ant CPV¹² clas­si­fic­a­tion, as well as the rel­ev­ant CPC¹³ clas­si­fic­a­tion in the case of ser­vices;

c.

de­scrip­tion of the goods, work or ser­vices, in­clud­ing the type and quant­ity, or, if the quant­ity is un­known, an es­tim­ate there­of, and any op­tions;

d.

place and time of per­form­ance;

e.

if ap­plic­able, a di­vi­sion in­to lots, re­stric­tion on the num­ber of lots and ad­mis­sion of par­tial tenders;

f.

if ap­plic­able, a re­stric­tion on or ex­clu­sion of bid­ding con­sor­tia and sub­con­tract­ors;

g.

if ap­plic­able, a re­stric­tion on or ex­clu­sion of vari­ants;

h.

in the case of con­tracts for goods, work or ser­vices re­quired on a re­cur­ring basis, an in­dic­a­tion of the date of the sub­sequent in­vit­a­tion to tender if pos­sible and, if ap­pro­pri­ate, an in­dic­a­tion that the time­frame for sub­mit­ting tenders will be shortened;

i.

where ap­pro­pri­ate, an in­dic­a­tion that an elec­tron­ic auc­tion will be held;

j.

where ap­pro­pri­ate, an in­dic­a­tion of the in­ten­tion to con­duct a dia­logue;

k.

the dead­line for sub­mit­ting tenders or re­quests to par­ti­cip­ate;

l.

form­al re­quire­ments for the sub­mis­sion of tenders or re­quests to par­ti­cip­ate, in par­tic­u­lar, an in­dic­a­tion that the sup­ply and price tenders may need to be in two sep­ar­ate en­vel­opes;

m.

lan­guage(s) of the pro­ced­ure and tender;

n.

the eli­gib­il­ity cri­ter­ia and the evid­ence re­quired;

o.

in the case of a se­lect­ive pro­ced­ure, the max­im­um num­ber of ten­der­ers in­vited to sub­mit tenders, if ap­plic­able;

p.

the award cri­ter­ia and their weight­ing, if this in­form­a­tion is not provided in the tender doc­u­ment­a­tion;

q.

where ap­pro­pri­ate, the re­ser­va­tion of the right to award con­tracts for par­tial sup­plies;

r.

the peri­od of valid­ity of tenders;

s.

an in­dic­a­tion of where the tender doc­u­ment­a­tion can be ob­tained and, if ap­plic­able, a fee to cov­er costs;

t.

an in­dic­a­tion as to wheth­er the pro­cure­ment falls with­in the scope of in­ter­na­tion­al treat­ies;

u.

where ap­pro­pri­ate, already in­volved ten­der­ers per­mit­ted to take part in the pro­ced­ure;

v.

where ap­pro­pri­ate, in­struc­tions on leg­al rem­ed­ies.