Federal Act
on Public Procurement
(PPA)

¹ A pub­lic con­tract is a con­tract that is entered in­to by the con­tract­ing au­thor­ity and the ten­der­er for the per­form­ance of a pub­lic task. It in­volves the pay­ment of money in re­turn for the sup­ply of goods, work or ser­vices, with these char­ac­ter­ist­ic sup­plies be­ing provided by the ten­der­er.

² A dis­tinc­tion is made between the fol­low­ing sup­plies:

a.

con­struc­tion work;

b.

sup­plies of goods;

c.

ser­vices.

³ Mixed con­tracts com­prise vari­ous sup­plies in ac­cord­ance with para­graph 2 and form an over­all trans­ac­tion. The over­all trans­ac­tion is cat­egor­ised based on the fin­an­cially pre­dom­in­ant sup­ply. Sup­plies may not be mixed or bundled with the in­ten­tion or ef­fect of cir­cum­vent­ing the pro­vi­sions of this Act.

⁴ With­in the scope of in­ter­na­tion­al treat­ies, sup­plies in ac­cord­ance with An­nexes 1 to 3 are sub­ject to this Act if they reach the threshold val­ues in sec­tion 1 of An­nex 4.

⁵ Pub­lic con­tracts out­side the scope of in­ter­na­tion­al treat­ies and the spe­cial pro­vi­sions ap­plic­able thereto are lis­ted in An­nex 5.