Fuel Supply Government Tenders in Switzerland

Index-linked pricing and the mechanics of a bulk fuel contract

Nobody bids a fixed price for fuel over a contract term, and a buyer who asks for one is inviting a risk premium rather than a price. These contracts are priced as a differential: a published market reference price for the product, plus or minus a bidder's margin covering supply, transport and service. Evaluation compares those differentials, not pump prices, and the tender specifies which published index is used, on what day it is read and how often it resets. A bidder who does not understand the index is not able to price the margin.

The specification is a product standard plus a delivery regime. Fuel is bought to a recognised national or international specification with seasonal grades where climate requires them, biofuel content stated, and certificates of quality accompanying each delivery. The service terms then decide who can compete: tank sizes and access at each site, minimum and maximum drop quantities, ordering lead time, out-of-hours and emergency delivery, and telemetry or automatic replenishment where the buyer has it. Sites that a large tanker cannot reach quietly exclude most bidders.

The obligations that sit around the fuel are where liability concentrates. Storage tanks, bunding, overfill protection and spill response are regulated, and the delivery driver's compliance with filling procedure is the buyer's environmental exposure as much as the supplier's. Metering accuracy and reconciliation between delivered and invoiced volumes are contractual, and stock loss is a recognised dispute. Where duty relief or a rebated grade applies to particular uses, eligibility and record-keeping transfer obligations to both parties that are worth confirming before the first delivery rather than at audit.

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 fuel supply in Switzerland?

GlobalGov holds 124 fuel supply records from 86 distinct buying organisations in Switzerland. The most frequent publishers are Alpiq Hydro Aare AG (10 records); Transports publics de la région lausannoise sa (5 records); Ville de Lausanne – SIL – Service patrimoine (PAT) (5 records); Ville de Lausanne, Direction des Services industriels, Service Patrimoine (5 records); Spital Lachen AG (3 records); Stadt Zürich Wasserversorgung (3 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 25% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.

How long do bidders get to respond to fuel supply tenders in Switzerland?

Across the 53 Switzerland fuel supply notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 42 days. A quarter of them allowed 39 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 53. Not one of them closed within a fortnight of being published, so the window on this market is consistently workable.

How often are fuel supply tenders published in Switzerland?

Switzerland published 3 notices in this category in the last twelve months. Over the last three years there were 57, spread across 45 separate months of activity since 31 March 2021. March is historically the busiest month. No new notice has been published in this category since 25 February 2026, 218 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 fuel supply markets?

Among the 34 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable fuel supply market, Switzerland ranks 26th by number of records. The largest is United States (7,899 records against 124 here). Within Switzerland itself, fuel supply is the 24th largest of the 56 procurement categories tracked here.

Where do the Switzerland fuel supply records on this page come from?

These 124 records are collected from 1 official source: TED (124). 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 Fuel Supply 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 fuel supply notice in Switzerland is visible. Set an alert to be told when the next one opens.

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