Federal Act
on Public Procurement
(PPA)

¹ With­in twelve months of the end of each cal­en­dar year, the con­tract­ing au­thor­it­ies shall com­pile elec­tron­ic stat­ist­ics on the pre­vi­ous year's pro­cure­ment with­in the scope of in­ter­na­tion­al treat­ies for the State Sec­ret­ari­at for Eco­nom­ic Af­fairs (SECO).

² The stat­ist­ics shall con­tain at least the fol­low­ing in­form­a­tion:

a.

the num­ber and total value of the pub­lic con­tracts awar­ded by each con­tract­ing au­thor­ity, broken down in­to con­struc­tion work, sup­ply and ser­vice con­tracts, in­dic­at­ing the rel­ev­ant CPC or CPV clas­si­fic­a­tion;

b.

the num­ber and total value of the pub­lic con­tracts awar­ded us­ing the dir­ect award pro­ced­ure;

c.

where no data can be provided: es­tim­ates of the data re­ferred to un­der a and b, to­geth­er with an ex­plan­a­tion of the es­tim­a­tion meth­od used.

³ The total value in­dic­ated shall in­clude value ad­ded tax.

⁴ SECO's over­all stat­ist­ics are pub­licly ac­cess­ible, sub­ject to data pro­tec­tion and the pro­tec­tion of com­mer­cial secrecy.