Campaign work, public information and how agencies are actually selected
Communications work for public bodies divides into campaigns with a behavioural objective and continuing communications support, and they are tendered differently. A campaign is scoped around a measurable change -- uptake of a service, awareness of a deadline, a safety behaviour -- with research, creative development, media planning and evaluation as distinct workstreams that may be let to different suppliers. Continuing support is usually a framework with a retained team and a rate card, called off as needs arise.
Selection is normally a two-stage process in which a shortlist responds to a live brief, and the response is judged on strategic insight and creative approach as much as on the finished idea. Buyers increasingly limit the amount of speculative creative work they require, and some pay an honorarium for it, because unlimited free pitching narrows the field to agencies that can afford to lose. Named team continuity is a contractual term for the same reason it is in consulting: the pitch team and the delivery team are expected to be the same people.
Two mechanics are specific to this category. Media buying is usually separated from creative and audited, with the agency required to disclose rebates, volume discounts and any principal trading so that the buyer knows whether it is paying a fee or a margin. And evaluation is contractual: public campaigns are expected to report against defined measures with a pre-agreed baseline, not against impressions delivered. Accessibility of materials, publication in required languages, and clear separation between public information and anything that could be read as political promotion are compliance requirements with real consequences.
This section describes how this category is bought generally, across the public buyers that publish it. The figures elsewhere on this page are measured for this market alone.
Who buys communications pr in Switzerland?
GlobalGov holds 64 communications pr records from 57 distinct buying organisations in Switzerland. The most frequent publishers are TED - Entsorgung + Recycling Zürich (ERZ) Hagenholzstrasse 110, Zürich (3 records); EPFL - Domaine des Achats (2 records); Fachstelle Beschaffungswesen Stadt Bern (2 records); Stadt Zürich, Präsidialdepartement, Projektstab Stadtrat (2 records); UniversitätsSpital Zürich (2 records); Universitätsspital Zürich (2 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 20% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.
| Buying organisation | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| TED - Entsorgung + Recycling Zürich (ERZ) Hagenholzstrasse 110, Zürich | 3 | 4.7% |
| EPFL - Domaine des Achats | 2 | 3.1% |
| Fachstelle Beschaffungswesen Stadt Bern | 2 | 3.1% |
| Stadt Zürich, Präsidialdepartement, Projektstab Stadtrat | 2 | 3.1% |
| UniversitätsSpital Zürich | 2 | 3.1% |
| Universitätsspital Zürich | 2 | 3.1% |
How long do bidders get to respond to communications pr tenders in Switzerland?
Across the 44 Switzerland communications pr notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 45 days. A quarter of them allowed 39 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 59. Not one of them closed within a fortnight of being published, so the window on this market is consistently workable.
How often are communications pr tenders published in Switzerland?
Switzerland published 12 notices in this category in the last twelve months. That is 33% fewer than the 18 published in the twelve months before that. Over the last three years there were 47, spread across 37 separate months of activity since 23 July 2021. March is historically the busiest month. No new notice has been published in this category since 1 April 2026, 183 days ago, so treat the figures above as a record of the market rather than as this week's pipeline.
How does Switzerland compare with other communications pr markets?
Among the 29 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable communications pr market, Switzerland ranks 24th by number of records. The largest is Colombia (6,822 records against 64 here). Within Switzerland itself, communications pr is the 35th largest of the 56 procurement categories tracked here.
Where do the Switzerland communications pr records on this page come from?
These 64 records are collected from 1 official source: TED (64). GlobalGov is an independent aggregator and is not affiliated with any of them; each record links back to the notice on its issuing portal. The set is rebuilt nightly, and the counts on this page were taken on 2026-10-01.
Most recent Communications Pr tenders in Switzerland
None of these are open for bids now — they are the most recent records GlobalGov holds for this market, kept here so the shape of a typical communications pr notice in Switzerland is visible. Set an alert to be told when the next one opens.
Switzerland – Radio, television, communication, telecommunication and related equipment – FRMCS Transport
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Switzerland – Project-management services other than for construction work – Umsetzung Konzept Pilotquartier Netto-Null Leistungsbereich Evaluation
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