Federal Act
on Public Procurement
(PPA)

¹ The con­tract­ing au­thor­ity may ex­clude a ten­der­er from an award pro­ced­ure, de­lete it from a list or re­voke a con­tract it has already been awar­ded if it is found that the ten­der­er con­cerned, one of its gov­ern­ing bod­ies, a third party called upon or one of such a party's gov­ern­ing bod­ies:

a.

does not ful­fil or no longer ful­fils the con­di­tions for par­ti­cip­a­tion in the pro­ced­ure, or its be­ha­viour jeop­ard­ises the leg­ally com­pli­ant con­duct of the award pro­ced­ure;

b.

sub­mit­ted a tender or re­quest to par­ti­cip­ate that con­tains sub­stan­tial form­al er­rors or de­vi­ates sub­stan­tially from the bind­ing re­quire­ments of an in­vit­a­tion to tender;

c.

has been found guilty by a leg­ally en­force­able judg­ment of a mis­de­mean­our to the det­ri­ment of the con­tract­ing au­thor­ity or of a felony.

d.

is sub­ject to at­tach­ment or bank­ruptcy pro­ceed­ings;

e.

has vi­ol­ated anti-cor­rup­tion pro­vi­sions;

f.

re­fuses to al­low in­spec­tions that have been ordered;

g.

has failed to pay taxes or so­cial se­cur­ity con­tri­bu­tions that are due;

h.

has failed to ex­ecute pre­vi­ous pub­lic con­tracts cor­rectly or oth­er­wise demon­strated that it is not a re­li­able and trust­worthy part­ner;

i.

was in­volved in the pre­par­a­tion of the pro­cure­ment and the res­ult­ing com­pet­it­ive dis­ad­vant­age for the oth­er ten­der­ers can­not be off­set by ap­pro­pri­ate means;

j.

has been leg­ally ex­cluded from fu­ture pub­lic con­tracts un­der Art­icle 45 para­graph 1.

² The con­tract­ing au­thor­ity may also take meas­ures in ac­cord­ance with para­graph 1 if there are suf­fi­cient in­dic­a­tions that the ten­der­er, one of its gov­ern­ing bod­ies, a third party called upon or one of such a party's gov­ern­ing bod­ies:

a.

gave the con­tract­ing au­thor­ity un­true or mis­lead­ing state­ments and in­form­a­tion;

b.

entered in­to un­law­ful agree­ments af­fect­ing com­pet­i­tion;

c.

sub­mit­ted an ab­nor­mally low tender without prov­ing com­pli­ance with the par­ti­cip­a­tion con­di­tions upon re­quest and of­fers no guar­an­tee that the goods, work or ser­vices put out to tender will be provided in ac­cord­ance with the con­tract;

d.

in­fringed re­cog­nised pro­fes­sion­al rules or com­prom­ised their pro­fes­sion­al hon­our or in­teg­rity through its acts or omis­sions;

e.

is in­solv­ent;

f.

dis­reg­ard work­place health and safety reg­u­la­tions, terms and con­di­tions of em­ploy­ment, the pro­vi­sions on the equal treat­ment of men and wo­men in terms of equal pay, the pro­vi­sions on con­fid­en­ti­al­ity and the pro­vi­sions of Swiss en­vir­on­ment­al law or the in­ter­na­tion­al con­ven­tions for the pro­tec­tion of the en­vir­on­ment des­ig­nated by the Fed­er­al Coun­cil;

g.

vi­ol­ated re­port­ing or au­thor­isa­tion ob­lig­a­tions un­der the IEA¹⁴;

h.

vi­ol­ated the Fed­er­al Act of 19 Decem­ber 1986¹⁵ on Un­fair Com­pet­i­tion.