Military Logistics Government Tenders in Switzerland

Sustainment, spares and the contracts that keep equipment available

Defence logistics is bought as sustained availability rather than as a series of deliveries. The dominant contract shapes are long-term support arrangements in which a supplier is paid for an equipment fleet being ready to use -- measured as availability, sortie rates or vehicles fit for task -- and is left to decide how much spares stock, repair capacity and preventive work that requires. The bidder's commercial risk moves from supplying parts to predicting failures, which is why reliability data and its ownership are negotiated early.

The supply chain itself is a specified deliverable. Requirements typically cover codification and unique identification of every item, packaging and preservation standards for long storage or harsh transit, shelf-life management, and configuration control so that a part fitted matches the approved build standard of the platform. Counterfeit parts avoidance and traceability to an approved manufacturing source are explicit obligations, not assurances, and an inability to evidence provenance is a disqualifying finding rather than a corrective action.

Access to the competition is controlled before capability is assessed. Security clearance for personnel and facilities, national security exemptions that restrict participation to particular suppliers, export control and end-use licensing, and offset or industrial participation obligations all determine who may bid. Deployed support adds its own requirements: contractors operating alongside deployed forces need defined status, insurance and medical arrangements, and the contract has to say what happens when the operation moves or the theatre closes.

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 military logistics in Switzerland?

GlobalGov holds 67 military logistics records from 45 distinct buying organisations in Switzerland. The most frequent publishers are Kantonales Amt für Feuerwesen (7 records); Kantonspolizei Bern (4 records); PTI Schweiz (3 records); Sicherheitsdepartement, Kantonspolizei, Abteilung Spezialdienste, Bahnhofstrasse 7, Postfach 1212, 6431 Schwyz (3 records); Bau- und Verkehrsdepartement des Kantons Basel-Stadt, Kantonale Fachstelle für öffentliche Beschaffungen (2 records); Corps des Sapeurs-Pompiers de Tramelan (2 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 31% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.

How long do bidders get to respond to military logistics tenders in Switzerland?

Across the 31 Switzerland military logistics notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 43 days. A quarter of them allowed 40 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 military logistics tenders published in Switzerland?

Switzerland published 2 notices in this category in the last twelve months. Over the last three years there were 30, spread across 37 separate months of activity since 26 May 2021. February is historically the busiest month. No new notice has been published in this category since 23 December 2025, 282 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 military logistics markets?

Among the 30 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable military logistics market, Switzerland ranks 22nd by number of records. The largest is Germany (723 records against 67 here). Within Switzerland itself, military logistics is the 34th largest of the 56 procurement categories tracked here.

Where do the Switzerland military logistics records on this page come from?

These 67 records are collected from 1 official source: TED (67). 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 Military Logistics 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 military logistics notice in Switzerland is visible. Set an alert to be told when the next one opens.

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