What Switzerland Federal Act on Public Procurement (Bundesgesetz uber das offentliche Beschaffungswesen / BoeB, revised version effective 1 January 2021) requires
The Swiss Federal Act on Public Procurement (Bundesgesetz uber das offentliche Beschaffungswesen / BoeB in German, Loi federale sur les marches publics / LMP in French, Legge federale sugli acquisti pubblici / LAPub in Italian) in its revised version effective 1 January 2021 is the principal Swiss federal statute governing procurement of goods, services, and construction works by federal-level contracting authorities. The 2021 revision was a comprehensive modernisation of the prior 1994 Act aligning Switzerland with the WTO Government Procurement Agreement (GPA) 2012 and with the EU procurement directives 2014/24/EU and 2014/25/EU principles, and harmonising with the parallel cantonal Intercantonal Agreement on Public Procurement (Interkantonale Vereinbarung uber das offentliche Beschaffungswesen / IVoeB) which was revised in parallel and applies to cantonal and municipal procurement. The harmonised federal-cantonal framework is a distinctive Swiss feature ensuring procurement procedural consistency across the three levels of government. The revised BoeB introduced substantive reforms including (a) shift from price-focused award (lowest price) to quality-focused award (most advantageous tender / wirtschaftlich gunstigstes Angebot) considering price, quality, sustainability, and innovation, (b) mandatory consideration of sustainability criteria including environmental, social, and life-cycle costs, (c) mandatory dialogue procedures for complex acquisitions, (d) strengthened debarment regime for ethically problematic suppliers, (e) integrity programmes for high-value procurements, and (f) digitalisation provisions enabling full electronic procurement. The Act specifies procurement methods including open procedure (offenes Verfahren, default for at-threshold procurements), selective procedure (selektives Verfahren, with prequalification), competitive negotiation procedure (Verfahren mit Verhandlungen), competitive dialogue (Dialog), and free-hand procedure (Freihandiges Verfahren, sole-source under prescribed exceptions). The Bundesamt fuer Bauten und Logistik (BBL / Federal Office for Buildings and Logistics) is the central federal procurement authority operationally responsible for many federal acquisitions, with simap.ch as the federal e-procurement platform shared with cantons. Switzerland is a long-standing party to the WTO GPA 2012 and operates within the broader EFTA / EU bilateral framework on procurement.
Pillar: Public Sector & Government Procurement · Authority: Schweizerische Bundeskanzlei (Swiss Federal Chancellery for legislative publication); Bundesamt fuer Bauten und Logistik (BBL / Federal Office for Buildings and Logistics, operational central federal procurement); Bundesgericht (Federal Supreme Court for procurement law jurisprudence) · Version: 1.0.0 · Last updated:
Primary source: https://www.fedlex.admin.ch/eli/cc/2020/126/en
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- Bundesgesetz uber das offentliche Beschaffungswesen (BoeB) revised version effective 1 January 2021 - principal Swiss federal statute governing public procurement
- Loi federale sur les marches publics (LMP) - French-language official version of the BoeB
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