Competence, certification and the paperwork that makes an installation legal
Electrical work is one of the most tightly regulated trades a public buyer procures, and competence is evidenced at two levels. The enterprise holds registration with a recognised body that audits its work; the individuals hold qualifications for the specific activity, including separate authorisation for high-voltage work, testing and inspection. Buyers verify both, and they verify the scope of the registration, because a contractor registered for domestic work is not thereby competent for a substation.
The deliverable that closes the job is a certificate, not a completed installation. Installation certificates, test results for continuity, insulation resistance, earth fault loop impedance and residual current device operation, and as-installed drawings and schedules are required before handover and are the evidence the buyer holds for its own statutory duties. Periodic inspection and testing on a defined cycle is a separate recurring requirement that is often let in the same contract and priced per circuit or per distribution board.
Work in occupied buildings is governed by isolation rather than by programme. Live working is normally prohibited, so the job depends on planned shutdowns agreed with the occupier, often at night or at weekends, under a permit to work with lock-off and proving procedures. Where standby generation, uninterruptible supplies or life safety systems are involved, the sequence of isolation is designed rather than improvised. Bidders who price the installation and not the access windows consistently underestimate these contracts, and buyers who do not specify the windows receive prices that assume the worst.
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 electrical installation in Switzerland?
GlobalGov holds 117 electrical installation records from 57 distinct buying organisations in Switzerland. The most frequent publishers are Bau- und Verkehrsdepartement des Kantons Basel-Stadt, Kantonale Fachstelle für öffentliche Beschaffungen (i.A. ProRheno) (19 records); ARA Orpund und Umgebung (6 records); Gemeindeverband für Abwasserreinigung Oberes Wiggertal (6 records); Groupement Epuration Moyenne Broye GEMB (6 records); Ville de Lausanne – SE - Service de l’eau (EAU) - Ouvrages (5 records); Ville de Pully - Direction des travaux et des services industriels (5 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 40% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.
| Buying organisation | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Bau- und Verkehrsdepartement des Kantons Basel-Stadt, Kantonale Fachstelle für öffentliche Beschaffungen (i.A. ProRheno) | 19 | 16% |
| ARA Orpund und Umgebung | 6 | 5.1% |
| Gemeindeverband für Abwasserreinigung Oberes Wiggertal | 6 | 5.1% |
| Groupement Epuration Moyenne Broye GEMB | 6 | 5.1% |
| Ville de Lausanne – SE - Service de l’eau (EAU) - Ouvrages | 5 | 4.3% |
| Ville de Pully - Direction des travaux et des services industriels | 5 | 4.3% |
How long do bidders get to respond to electrical installation tenders in Switzerland?
Across the 61 Switzerland electrical installation notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 50 days. A quarter of them allowed 41 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 60. Not one of them closed within a fortnight of being published, so the window on this market is consistently workable.
How often are electrical installation tenders published in Switzerland?
Switzerland published 13 notices in this category in the last twelve months. That is 35% fewer than the 20 published in the twelve months before that. Over the last three years there were 61, spread across 47 separate months of activity since 21 May 2021. March is historically the busiest month. No new notice has been published in this category since 25 March 2026, 190 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 electrical installation markets?
Among the 19 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable electrical installation market, Switzerland ranks 9th by number of records. The largest is Germany (814 records against 117 here). Within Switzerland itself, electrical installation is the 26th largest of the 56 procurement categories tracked here.
Where do the Switzerland electrical installation records on this page come from?
These 117 records are collected from 1 official source: TED (117). 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 Electrical Installation 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 electrical installation notice in Switzerland is visible. Set an alert to be told when the next one opens.
Switzerland – Drinking-water treatment plant construction work – Usine d'eau potable de Bret - Travaux d'entretien 2025-2028 - Travaux de génie civil - Travaux de l'entreprise N° 3
Switzerland – Construction works for sewage treatment plants, purification plants and refuse incineration plants – MP126 Garde-corps, trappes et caillebotis - Adaptation de la STEP de Neuchâtel
Switzerland – Water-treatment plant construction work – Usine d'eau potable de Bret - Travaux d’entretien 2025-2028 - Travaux de réfection des actuels filtres à sable - Conception, fourniture, réalisation et mise en service des filtres à argile expansé - Travaux de l’Entreprise N° 1
Switzerland – Water-treatment plant construction work – Usine d'eau potable de Bret - Travaux d'entretien 2025-2028 - Travaux de réfection des filtres à charbon - Conception, fourniture, réalisation et mise en service des filtres à charbon - Travaux de l'Entreprise N° 2
Switzerland – Sewage-treatment plant construction work – ARA Rapperswil Jona, Neubau EMV
Switzerland – Water-treatment plant construction work – Gesamtsanierung Ka-We-De, Bern - BKP 359 Wasseraufbereitung
Switzerland – Sewage-treatment plant construction work – Rehabilitation und Erweiterung der ARA Granges. Angebot MA 62: Sanitäre Anlagen
Switzerland – Hydro-electric plant construction work – Sanierung Druckschacht Kraftwerk Handeck 1 - Bauarbeiten
Switzerland – Fabrication work – 2x220-kV Chamoson-Gstaad-Mühleberg, Déviation Col du Sanetsch / Travaux de démontage et de montage de ligne aérienne
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