Federal Act
on Public Procurement
(PPA)

¹ Provided that the eli­gib­il­ity cri­ter­ia and tech­nic­al spe­cific­a­tions are met, the tenders are ex­amined and eval­u­ated ob­ject­ively, uni­formly and com­pre­hens­ibly in ac­cord­ance with the award cri­ter­ia. The con­tract­ing au­thor­ity doc­u­ments the eval­u­ation.

² If the com­pre­hens­ive ex­am­in­a­tion and eval­u­ation of tenders re­quires con­sid­er­able time and ef­fort, and provided that the con­tract­ing au­thor­ity an­nounced this in the in­vit­a­tion to tender, it may sub­ject all tenders to an ini­tial ex­am­in­a­tion and rank them based on the doc­u­ments sub­mit­ted. Where pos­sible, it se­lects the three best-ranked tenders on that basis and sub­jects them to a com­pre­hens­ive ex­am­in­a­tion and eval­u­ation.