Public procurement in Switzerland: procedures, criteria and bids
Public contracts are a stable revenue pillar for many SMEs, but the procedure has its own rules: procedure types under the PPA and IVöB, suitability and award criteria, formal requirements and deadlines that decide on exclusion.
Here you find our content from procedure to award: key terms, the guide to public procurement, articles on the bid/no-bid decision and writing a bid, checklists for decision and submission, and Submira, our platform for tenders.
Terms
- BöB (Swiss federal procurement act)
- IVöB (Swiss intercantonal procurement agreement)
- simap.ch
- WTO thresholds
- Open procedure
- Selective procedure
- Invitation procedure
- Direct award procedure
- Suitability criteria
- Award criteria
- Price-quality evaluation (award)
- Q&A round (questions on the tender)
- Bidding consortium (Bietergemeinschaft)
- Framework agreement (public procurement)
- Prior involvement (Art. 14 PPA)
- Grounds for exclusion (procurement)
- Award and award decision
- Procurement appeal
- Bid/no-bid decision
- Tender specification
- Lastenheft and Pflichtenheft (requirements and specification documents)
- Lots (dividing contracts into lots)
- Variants in a bid (Art. 33 PPA)
Articles
Checklists
Offers
Services
Products
- SubmiraThe public-procurement co-pilot for Switzerland.
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