Federal Act
on Public Procurement
(PPA)

¹ The con­tract­ing au­thor­ity may aban­don the award pro­ced­ure, par­tic­u­larly if:

a.

it de­cides not to award the pub­lic con­tract for val­id reas­ons;

b.

no tender meets the tech­nic­al spe­cific­a­tions or the oth­er re­quire­ments;

c.

more ad­vant­age­ous tenders are to be ex­pec­ted due to changes in the frame­work con­di­tions;

d.

the tenders sub­mit­ted do not al­low for eco­nom­ic­al pro­cure­ment, or sig­ni­fic­antly ex­ceed the cost frame­work;

e.

there are suf­fi­cient in­dic­a­tions of an un­law­ful agree­ment af­fect­ing com­pet­i­tion between the ten­der­ers;

f.

a sig­ni­fic­ant change in the goods, work or ser­vices re­ques­ted be­comes ne­ces­sary.

² Ten­der­ers are not en­titled to com­pens­a­tion in the event of a jus­ti­fied aban­don­ment of the pro­ced­ure.