Buying supply, generation and efficiency under one heading
Energy notices cover three different transactions that a bidder should separate before responding. The first is supply: a contract to deliver electricity or gas to meter points, priced as a unit rate with standing charges, awarded for a term and increasingly specified by generation source. The second is generation or connection assets -- plant, substations, heat networks, storage -- which is capital works with commissioning and grid connection at its centre. The third is performance-based efficiency work, which is a financing structure as much as a construction one.
Supply contracts turn on when the price is fixed. Buyers may take a fixed price for the whole term, fix in tranches as the market moves, or buy flexibly against a wholesale index with a supplier managing the purchasing, and the tender states which. Each puts the price risk in a different place, and comparing bids across mechanisms is not possible without modelling them on a common basis. Where renewable or low-carbon content is required, buyers now ask for certificate-backed evidence rather than a description of the supplier's generation mix.
Performance contracting deserves its own reading. In these arrangements the supplier designs and installs measures -- lighting, controls, heat generation, fabric -- and is paid from the savings, sometimes with a guarantee that underwrites them. The whole contract then rests on the measurement and verification protocol: the agreed baseline, the adjustments for weather and occupancy, and who measures. Bidders and buyers who negotiate the technology before the measurement protocol usually end up arguing about the measurement protocol.
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 energy in Switzerland?
GlobalGov holds 26 energy records from 23 distinct buying organisations in Switzerland. The most frequent publishers are Bau- und Verkehrsdepartement des Kantons Basel-Stadt, Kantonale Fachstelle für öffentliche Beschaffungen (2 records); Z (2 records); Abwasserverband Buchs SG (1 record); Armasuisse achats et coopération CC OMC (1 record); CFF Achats du Groupe biens de consommation (1 record); CGN SA (1 record). Between them the 6 largest account for 31% 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 | 2 | 7.7% |
| Z | 2 | 7.7% |
| Abwasserverband Buchs SG | 1 | 3.8% |
| Armasuisse achats et coopération CC OMC | 1 | 3.8% |
| CFF Achats du Groupe biens de consommation | 1 | 3.8% |
| CGN SA | 1 | 3.8% |
How long do bidders get to respond to energy tenders in Switzerland?
Across the 5 Switzerland energy notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 39 days. A quarter of them allowed 37 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 46. Not one of them closed within a fortnight of being published, so the window on this market is consistently workable.
How often are energy tenders published in Switzerland?
Switzerland published 5 notices in this category in the last twelve months. Over the last three years there were 6, spread across 19 separate months of activity since 15 June 2016. November is historically the busiest month. The most recent was published 20 August 2026.
How does Switzerland compare with other energy markets?
Among the 34 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable energy market, Switzerland ranks 34th by number of records. The largest is United States (2,062 records against 26 here). Within Switzerland itself, energy is the 52nd largest of the 56 procurement categories tracked here.
Where do the Switzerland energy records on this page come from?
These 26 records are collected from 1 official source: TED (26). 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.
Open Energy tenders in Switzerland
Showing 2 of the 2 notices open in this category today. Openness uses the same definition as the Switzerland market page: active, not marked awarded, cancelled, closed or expired, and either closing in the future or published within the last 90 days with no stated closing date.
Switzerland – Energy and related services – Submission SAP S/4HANA EDM & Marktkommunikation
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