Why these contracts are priced as rates rather than as a job
Maintenance is bought without knowing what will break. That single fact shapes the whole category: instead of a price for a defined scope, bidders price a schedule of rates -- a published list of individual operations, each with a unit and a rate -- and work is instructed, measured and paid against that list for the life of the contract. There is usually no guaranteed volume. A supplier that wins on rates and then receives a fraction of the expected instructions has won exactly what the contract promised, and bidders who model fixed overhead against hoped-for turnover are the ones who fail mid-term.
The specification splits into planned and reactive work, and they are scored differently. Planned preventive maintenance is a schedule against an asset register: known frequencies, known tasks, statutory inspections that must happen whether anything is wrong or not. Reactive work is governed by priority categories with an attendance time and a rectification time attached to each, and performance against those times is the measure the contract actually manages. Bidders should read the priority matrix before the task list, because it determines the standby cover the price has to carry.
Two obligations are easy to miss and expensive to retrofit. The first is data: buyers increasingly require every job to be raised, updated and closed in their own asset management system, with asset condition and remaining life fed back, so the supplier is maintaining the record as well as the asset. The second is statutory compliance evidence -- certificates for pressure systems, lifting equipment, electrical installations, fire safety and water hygiene -- which the buyer must be able to produce to a regulator on demand and which therefore becomes a contractual deliverable with dates attached.
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 maintenance & repair in Switzerland?
GlobalGov holds 32 maintenance & repair records from 29 distinct buying organisations in Switzerland. The most frequent publishers are WMO (2 records); Armasuisse Ressourcen Und Support CC WTO (1 record); Axpo Power AG (1 record); Aéroport international de Genève (1 record); BGU Busbetrieb Grenchen und Umgebung AG (1 record); Bau- und Verkehrsdepartement des Kantons Basel-Stadt, Kantonale Fachstelle für öffentliche Beschaffungen (1 record). Between them the 6 largest account for 22% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.
| Buying organisation | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| WMO | 2 | 6.2% |
| Armasuisse Ressourcen Und Support CC WTO | 1 | 3.1% |
| Axpo Power AG | 1 | 3.1% |
| Aéroport international de Genève | 1 | 3.1% |
| BGU Busbetrieb Grenchen und Umgebung AG | 1 | 3.1% |
| Bau- und Verkehrsdepartement des Kantons Basel-Stadt, Kantonale Fachstelle für öffentliche Beschaffungen | 1 | 3.1% |
How long do bidders get to respond to maintenance & repair tenders in Switzerland?
Across the 17 Switzerland maintenance & repair notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 40 days. A quarter of them allowed 37 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 50. Not one of them closed within a fortnight of being published, so the window on this market is consistently workable.
How often are maintenance & repair tenders published in Switzerland?
Switzerland published 19 notices in this category in the last twelve months. Over the last three years there were 21, spread across 16 separate months of activity since 10 June 2017. June is historically the busiest month. The most recent was published 31 August 2026.
How does Switzerland compare with other maintenance & repair markets?
Among the 40 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable maintenance & repair market, Switzerland ranks 37th by number of records. The largest is Australia (35,937 records against 32 here). Within Switzerland itself, maintenance & repair is the 47th largest of the 56 procurement categories tracked here.
Where do the Switzerland maintenance & repair records on this page come from?
These 32 records are collected from 2 official sources: TED (27), UN Global Marketplace (5). 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 Maintenance & Repair 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 – Repair and maintenance of plant – Aménagement hydroélectrique de Lavey - Révision des vannes de garde 1-2-3
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