Federal Act on Public Procurement (PPA) Art. 23

Zusammenfassung der Rechtsnorm PPA:

Art. 23 PPA from 2024

Art. 23 Electronic auctions

¹ The contracting authority may hold an electronic auction for the procurement of standardised goods, work or services within the framework of a procedure under this Act. In this case, the tenders are revised after an initial full evaluation and re-ranked using electronic aids and, if necessary, multiple rounds. Reference must be made to this in the invitation to tender.

² The electronic auction covers the following areas:

³ The contracting authority checks whether the tenderers meet the eligibility criteria and whether the tenders fulfil the technical specifications. It carries out an initial evaluation of the tenders based on the award criteria and the weighting established for this purpose. Before the auction begins, it provides each tenderer with the following:

⁴ All eligible tenderers are simultaneously invited electronically to submit new or amended tenders. The contracting authority may limit the number of eligible tenderers, provided it announced this in the invitation to tender or in the tender documentation.

⁵ The electronic auction may comprise several successive rounds. The contracting authority informs all tenderers of their rank in each round.