What a public body is actually buying when it buys consulting
A management consulting contract is unusual in public procurement because the thing being bought does not exist when it is priced. The buyer is purchasing a method and a named team, and the evaluation reflects that: technical scores in this category lean heavily on the proposed approach and on the curricula vitae of the individuals who will do the work, with price often weighted lower than it is for goods. That makes the key personnel clause the sharpest term in the contract. Bidders who win on the strength of named partners and then substitute juniors are the reason most of these contracts now bind the supplier to the individuals who were scored, and make replacement subject to the buyer's consent.
The commercial shape is usually a framework or a multi-supplier panel rather than a single award. The tender establishes rate cards by grade and a set of service areas, and individual assignments are then called off against it, sometimes competitively between the panel members. A bidder who reads only the headline notice and not the call-off mechanism can win a place on a panel worth nothing, because being admitted to a framework guarantees the right to compete and not a single day of work.
Two requirements catch first-time bidders. The first is conflict of interest: a firm that advises on a strategy is frequently barred from bidding for the implementation it recommends, and the declaration is made at bid stage, not at award. The second is deliverable-based payment. Public buyers increasingly refuse open-ended time and materials, tying payment to accepted reports, decision points or measured benefits, which moves the risk of an overrunning study onto the consultant. Reading the payment schedule before the scope is the faster way to understand what a given assignment will really cost to deliver.
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 management consulting in Switzerland?
GlobalGov holds 1,672 management consulting records from 717 distinct buying organisations in Switzerland. The most frequent publishers are Office fédéral des routes OFROU Succursale de Zofingue (49 records); Office fédéral des routes OFROU, Division Infrastructure routière Ouest, filiale Estavayer-le-Lac (42 records); Baudirektion Kanton Zürich, Tiefbauamt Projektieren + Realisieren (39 records); Office fédéral des routes - Infrastructure routière Ouest Filiale Estavayer-le-Lac (37 records); Office fédéral des routes (OFROU), Division Infrastructure routière Est, Filiale de Winterthour (31 records); Bundesamt für Strassen ASTRA, Abteilung Strasseninfrastruktur Ost, Filiale Winterthur (28 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 14% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.
| Buying organisation | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Office fédéral des routes OFROU Succursale de Zofingue | 49 | 2.9% |
| Office fédéral des routes OFROU, Division Infrastructure routière Ouest, filiale Estavayer-le-Lac | 42 | 2.5% |
| Baudirektion Kanton Zürich, Tiefbauamt Projektieren + Realisieren | 39 | 2.3% |
| Office fédéral des routes - Infrastructure routière Ouest Filiale Estavayer-le-Lac | 37 | 2.2% |
| Office fédéral des routes (OFROU), Division Infrastructure routière Est, Filiale de Winterthour | 31 | 1.9% |
| Bundesamt für Strassen ASTRA, Abteilung Strasseninfrastruktur Ost, Filiale Winterthur | 28 | 1.7% |
How long do bidders get to respond to management consulting tenders in Switzerland?
Across the 766 Switzerland management consulting notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 47 days. A quarter of them allowed 41 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 54. Not one of them closed within a fortnight of being published, so the window on this market is consistently workable.
How often are management consulting tenders published in Switzerland?
Switzerland publishes about 6 notices a month in this category, 72 in the last twelve months. That is 77% fewer than the 315 published in the twelve months before that. Over the last three years there were 795, spread across 60 separate months of activity since 11 May 2021. September is historically the busiest month. No new notice has been published in this category since 20 April 2026, 164 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 management consulting markets?
Among the 66 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable management consulting market, Switzerland ranks 11th by number of records. The largest is France (14,828 records against 1,672 here). Within Switzerland itself, management consulting is the 3rd largest of the 56 procurement categories tracked here.
Where do the Switzerland management consulting records on this page come from?
These 1,672 records are collected from 2 official sources: TED (1,670), UN Global Marketplace (2). 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 Management Consulting 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 management consulting notice in Switzerland is visible. Set an alert to be told when the next one opens.
Request for Proposal (RFP) for the Provision of Strategic Leadership Consultancy Services and Organizational Development
Switzerland – Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security – Ausschreibung Kreativ- und Digitalagenturen
Switzerland – Project management consultancy services – Projektmanagement-Dienstleistungen IGS GmbH
Switzerland – Engineering design services for mechanical and electrical installations for buildings – GPL - FNM - Mandat d'ingénieur CV-MCR et coordinateur technique CVSE pour les installations techniques de l'ensemble Gilbert, Prulay, Livron (GPL)
Switzerland – Engineering design services for mechanical and electrical installations for buildings – GPL - FNM - Mandat d'ingénieur sanitaire pour les installations techniques de l'ensemble Gilbert, Prulay, Livron (GPL)
Switzerland – Engineering design services – 10580 K 13, Neuenkirch – Nottwil, Erstellung Radverkehrsanlage, Abzweigung K 48 – Nottwil Dorf (exkl.)
Switzerland – Engineering services – Revision Gefahrenkarte Naturgefahren Zürichsee Rechts
Switzerland – Engineering services – 95 immeubles de logements (M350TI) Exploitation, entretien, dépannage et suivi énergétique des installations de chauffage et ventilation
Switzerland – Engineering services – Werkhof und Feuerwehrdepot Kilchberg (ZH) - Submission Haustechnikplanung
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