Independence, regulation and how advisory mandates are scoped
Financial advisory work for public bodies is bought under a constraint that shapes every bid: the adviser must be, and be seen to be, independent of the transaction it is advising on. Conflict of interest declarations are made at bid stage and cover the whole firm and its affiliates, not the proposed team, and an existing relationship with a likely counterparty is commonly disqualifying. Firms that also arrange or underwrite are frequently excluded from advising on the same transaction, which is why this category has a distinct supplier population from banking services.
Mandates are scoped around a decision with a date attached -- a funding structure, a valuation, a business case, a restructuring, a concession -- and are almost always phased so the buyer can stop. Fees mix a fixed element for defined deliverables with capped time-based charges for support through a process whose length depends on third parties. Success fees are viewed cautiously in public procurement because they align the adviser with completion rather than with the buyer's interest in walking away, and where they are permitted they are usually capped and disclosed.
Evaluation rests on the individuals and on regulatory standing. Buyers check that the firm holds the authorisations its jurisdiction requires for the activity in question, that professional indemnity cover matches the value of the decisions being advised on, and that the named team has done comparable transactions rather than comparable sectors. Because the deliverable is frequently a document that will be relied on by lenders, auditors or a legislature, the terms governing reliance, liability caps and the right to publish the advice are negotiated as hard as the fee.
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 financial advisory in Switzerland?
GlobalGov holds 438 financial advisory records from 244 distinct buying organisations in Switzerland. The most frequent publishers are Loyco SA (19 records); Kessler & Co SA (13 records); Qualibroker AG (10 records); Verlingue AG (10 records); Verlingue Ag (9 records); Rimas Insurance-Broker AG (8 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 16% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.
| Buying organisation | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Loyco SA | 19 | 4.3% |
| Kessler & Co SA | 13 | 3.0% |
| Qualibroker AG | 10 | 2.3% |
| Verlingue AG | 10 | 2.3% |
| Verlingue Ag | 9 | 2.1% |
| Rimas Insurance-Broker AG | 8 | 1.8% |
How long do bidders get to respond to financial advisory tenders in Switzerland?
Across the 172 Switzerland financial advisory notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 42 days. A quarter of them allowed 40 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 49. Not one of them closed within a fortnight of being published, so the window on this market is consistently workable.
How often are financial advisory tenders published in Switzerland?
Switzerland published 4 notices in this category in the last twelve months. Over the last three years there were 178, spread across 48 separate months of activity since 9 April 2021. July is historically the busiest month. No new notice has been published in this category since 24 December 2025, 281 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 financial advisory markets?
Among the 30 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable financial advisory market, Switzerland ranks 9th by number of records. The largest is France (9,415 records against 438 here). Within Switzerland itself, financial advisory is the 11th largest of the 56 procurement categories tracked here.
Where do the Switzerland financial advisory records on this page come from?
These 438 records are collected from 1 official source: TED (438). 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 Financial Advisory 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 financial advisory notice in Switzerland is visible. Set an alert to be told when the next one opens.
Switzerland – Accident and health insurance services – Assurances de personnes au 01.01.2026
Switzerland – Accident insurance services – Ausschreibung Unfallversicherung gemäss UVG per 01.01.2026 - Kantonsspital Baden AG
Switzerland – Financial and insurance services – Submission Personenversicherungen
Switzerland – Health insurance services – Concorso per l’aggiudicazione dei contratti di assicurazione per assicurazione indennità perdita guadagno a seguito di malattia (IPG)
Switzerland – Financial and insurance services – Betriebs-Haftpflichtversicherung für die ETH Zürich per 01.01.2026
Switzerland – Accident and health insurance services – Assurances de Personnes
Switzerland – Accident and health insurance services – Krankentaggeldversicherung (VVG)
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