Over the last few years, PPPs have remained a rarity in Switzerland. At the federal level, the government is still reluctant to cooperate with private partners (see below Gotthard road tunnel); the cantons' experiences with PPP, however, have been mostly positive so far. During the past year, the Federal Supreme Court has ruled in two interesting cases regarding Public Procurement. Particularly the one concerning open-source software reached quite strong media attention. Only recently, the report on procurement-controlling was published. It provides an overview of the amounts spent on public procurement by the Federal Administration in 2012.

Peter Hettich, Louisa Galbraith

17 Dec 2013