Austria runs its public procurement on its own federal act, and it has one feature that can save bidders a lot of repeated paperwork: a central register where you prove your eligibility once. If you sell to Austrian public buyers, both are worth knowing.
Short answer: The BVergG, the Bundesvergabegesetz, is Austria’s federal public procurement act. It implements the EU rules in Austrian law and sets out the procedures buyers must follow. Many Austrian suppliers also register in the ANKÖ, a central register that lets them prove their eligibility once rather than for every tender.
What the BVergG covers
The BVergG is the main Austrian procurement law. It defines which buyers must run a procurement, the procedures they use, the thresholds and the principles of fair and transparent competition. When you read an Austrian tender, the BVergG is the source of the rules behind it.
The ANKÖ register
The ANKÖ, the Auftragnehmerkataster Österreich, is a central register of suppliers and their eligibility evidence. By keeping your documents there, you can point buyers to the register instead of assembling the same certificates for every tender. For a supplier that bids regularly in Austria, that is a real time saver.
What it means for you as a supplier
The practical Austrian playbook is to learn the BVergG procedure named in the tender and to consider an ANKÖ entry if you bid often. The first tells you how the competition runs, the second cuts the repeated evidence work across tenders.
FAQ
What is the BVergG? Austria’s federal public procurement act, implementing the EU rules.
What is the ANKÖ? A central Austrian register where suppliers store eligibility evidence and reuse it across tenders.
Is the BVergG the same as Germany’s rules? No. Austria and Germany each have their own procurement law, so Austrian tenders follow the BVergG, not the German VgV or VOB.