Federal Act
on Public Procurement
(PPA)

¹ The fol­low­ing are sub­ject to this Act as con­tract­ing au­thor­it­ies:

a.

ad­min­is­trat­ive units of the cent­ral and de­cent­ral­ised Fed­er­al Ad­min­is­tra­tion in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 2 of the Fed­er­al Act of 21 March 1997⁸ on the Or­gan­isa­tion of the Gov­ern­ment and the Ad­min­is­tra­tion and the as­so­ci­ated im­ple­ment­ing pro­vi­sions that ap­ply at the time of the in­vit­a­tion to tender;

b.

fed­er­al ju­di­cial au­thor­it­ies;

c.

the Of­fice of the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al of Switzer­land;

d.

Par­lia­ment­ary Ser­vices.

² Pub­lic and private un­der­tak­ings that provide pub­lic ser­vices and that have ex­clus­ive or spe­cial rights are sub­ject to this Act if they carry out activ­it­ies in one of the fol­low­ing sec­tors in Switzer­land:

a.

the pro­vi­sion or op­er­a­tion of fixed net­works in­ten­ded to provide a ser­vice to the pub­lic in con­nec­tion with the pro­duc­tion, trans­port or dis­tri­bu­tion of drink­ing wa­ter, or the sup­ply of drink­ing wa­ter to such net­works;

b.

the pro­vi­sion or op­er­a­tion of fixed net­works in­ten­ded to provide a ser­vice to the pub­lic in con­nec­tion with the pro­duc­tion, trans­port or dis­tri­bu­tion of elec­tri­city, or the sup­ply of elec­tri­city to such net­works;

c.

the pro­vi­sion of air­ports or oth­er ter­min­al fa­cil­it­ies to air car­ri­ers;

d.

the pro­vi­sion of in­land ports or oth­er ter­min­al fa­cil­it­ies to in­land wa­ter­way car­ri­ers;

e.

the pro­vi­sion of postal ser­vices in the re­served ser­vices area in ac­cord­ance with the Postal Ser­vices Act of 17 Decem­ber 2010⁹;

f.

the pro­vi­sion or op­er­a­tion of rail­ways, in­clud­ing the traffic there­on;

g.

the pro­vi­sion or op­er­a­tion of fixed net­works in­ten­ded to provide a ser­vice to the pub­lic in con­nec­tion with the pro­duc­tion, trans­port or dis­tri­bu­tion of gas or heat, or the sup­ply of gas or heat to such net­works; or

h.

the ex­ploit­a­tion of a geo­graph­ic­al area for the pur­pose of ex­plor­ing for or ex­tract­ing oil, gas, coal or oth­er sol­id fuels.

³ The con­tract­ing au­thor­it­ies un­der para­graph 2 are sub­ject to this Act only in the case of pro­cure­ments for the area of activ­ity de­scribed, but not for their oth­er activ­it­ies.

⁴ If a third party awards a pub­lic con­tract on be­half of one or more con­tract­ing au­thor­it­ies, this third party is sub­ject to this Act in the same way as the con­tract­ing au­thor­ity it rep­res­ents.