Research and Studies Government Tenders in Switzerland

Commissioned studies, methodology scoring and the right to publish

A commissioned study is bought for a decision the buyer has to make, and the tender usually states the decision. That matters because the strongest bids answer the decision rather than the question as written: they say what the study can and cannot establish, what the sample will support, and where the evidence will remain thin. Evaluation in this category is weighted heavily toward methodology, and a proposal that claims certainty the method cannot deliver is scored down by any competent panel.

The practical constraints are access and ethics. Studies that involve interviews, survey respondents or administrative data need approvals before fieldwork begins, and the timetable for those approvals is frequently longer than the fieldwork itself. Data protection obligations govern how personal data is collected, stored, anonymised and destroyed, and the contract normally names the roles of each party in handling it. A bid whose programme starts fieldwork immediately after award has usually not accounted for this.

Ownership and publication are negotiated terms with real consequences. Public buyers commonly take ownership of the report and the underlying data, reserve the right to publish, and require the raw data and code in a reusable form so the analysis can be reproduced. Researchers often want the right to publish independently, and the compromise is usually a delay period rather than a veto. Bidders should also read the clause on findings the buyer dislikes: the credible contracts protect the researcher's conclusions explicitly, and the absence of that protection tells you something about the commission.

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 research and studies in Switzerland?

GlobalGov holds 23 research and studies records from 20 distinct buying organisations in Switzerland. The most frequent publishers are Ilo (3 records); Office cantonal des bâtiments (OCBA) - Service Achats et Contractualisation (2 records); CHUV - centrale d'achats et d'ingénierie biomédicale (CAIB) (1 record); Centrale commune d'achats (CCA) (1 record); DGE-Geodes (1 record); Gemeinde Dürrenroth (Amt für Geoinformation) (1 record). Between them the 6 largest account for 39% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.

How long do bidders get to respond to research and studies tenders in Switzerland?

Across the 20 Switzerland research and studies notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 50 days. A quarter of them allowed 44 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 59. Not one of them closed within a fortnight of being published, so the window on this market is consistently workable.

How often are research and studies tenders published in Switzerland?

Switzerland published 17 notices in this category in the last twelve months. Over the last three years there were 23, spread across 11 separate months of activity since 9 April 2024. February is historically the busiest month. No new notice has been published in this category since 7 May 2026, 147 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 research and studies markets?

Among the 25 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable research and studies market, Switzerland ranks 24th by number of records. The largest is France (1,079 records against 23 here). Within Switzerland itself, research and studies is the 55th largest of the 56 procurement categories tracked here.

Where do the Switzerland research and studies records on this page come from?

These 23 records are collected from 2 official sources: TED (20), UN Global Marketplace (3). 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 Research and Studies 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 research and studies notice in Switzerland is visible. Set an alert to be told when the next one opens.

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