Federal Act
on Public Procurement
(PPA)

¹ The con­tract­ing au­thor­ity shall set out the ten­der­er eli­gib­il­ity cri­ter­ia in full in the in­vit­a­tion to tender or in the tender doc­u­ment­a­tion. The cri­ter­ia must be ob­ject­ively ne­ces­sary and veri­fi­able for the pro­cure­ment pro­ject.

² The eli­gib­il­ity cri­ter­ia may re­late in par­tic­u­lar to the ten­der­er's pro­fes­sion­al, fin­an­cial, eco­nom­ic, tech­nic­al and or­gan­isa­tion­al ca­pa­city, as well as to its ex­per­i­ence.

³ The con­tract­ing au­thor­ity shall spe­cify what evid­ence must be sub­mit­ted and when in the in­vit­a­tion to tender or in the tender doc­u­ment­a­tion.

⁴ It may not im­pose the con­di­tion that the ten­der­er has already re­ceived one or more pub­lic con­tracts from a con­tract­ing au­thor­ity sub­ject to this Act.