Buying, leasing and specifying a public fleet
The first decision in a fleet competition is whether the buyer is purchasing vehicles or contracting for their use. Outright purchase puts residual value, maintenance and disposal risk on the buyer and usually produces the lowest headline price. Leasing or contract hire bundles finance, maintenance, replacement and disposal into a monthly figure and moves that risk to the supplier, which changes who can bid: a dealer can supply vehicles, but only a funder can price a residual value over several years. Notices in this category should be read for that distinction before anything else.
Specification is rarely the base vehicle. Public fleets are converted: racking, tail lifts, tipper or refuse bodies, livery, beacons, telematics, safety systems and secure compartments are fitted after manufacture, and the conversion has to be type-approved and warranted without voiding the chassis warranty. That makes the bidder's relationship with a bodybuilder as important as its relationship with a manufacturer, and it makes the delivery date a compound promise rather than a single one.
Evaluation has moved decisively toward whole-life and emissions. Buyers score fuel or energy consumption, emission class, and increasingly zero-emission capability against fleet decarbonisation commitments, and they model fuel, tax and maintenance over the holding period rather than comparing list prices. For electric vehicles the charging infrastructure and its installation is frequently procured in the same competition or an immediately adjacent one, and a bid that supplies vehicles the depot cannot charge answers only part of the requirement.
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 vehicles and fleet in Switzerland?
GlobalGov holds 869 vehicles and fleet records from 475 distinct buying organisations in Switzerland. The most frequent publishers are Hymexia Sàrl (28 records); Rhätische Bahn AG (19 records); Verkehrsbetriebe Zürich Beschaffung und Einkauf (15 records); Centrale municipale d'achat et d'impression de la Ville de Genève (13 records); Chemins de fer fédéraux suisses CFF Production Voyageurs (13 records); Fachstelle Beschaffungswesen Stadt Bern (13 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 12% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.
| Buying organisation | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Hymexia Sàrl | 28 | 3.2% |
| Rhätische Bahn AG | 19 | 2.2% |
| Verkehrsbetriebe Zürich Beschaffung und Einkauf | 15 | 1.7% |
| Centrale municipale d'achat et d'impression de la Ville de Genève | 13 | 1.5% |
| Chemins de fer fédéraux suisses CFF Production Voyageurs | 13 | 1.5% |
| Fachstelle Beschaffungswesen Stadt Bern | 13 | 1.5% |
How long do bidders get to respond to vehicles and fleet tenders in Switzerland?
Across the 466 Switzerland vehicles and fleet notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 44 days. A quarter of them allowed 40 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 58. Not one of them closed within a fortnight of being published, so the window on this market is consistently workable.
How often are vehicles and fleet tenders published in Switzerland?
Switzerland published 22 notices in this category in the last twelve months. That is 90% fewer than the 215 published in the twelve months before that. Over the last three years there were 469, spread across 59 separate months of activity since 4 May 2021. September is historically the busiest month. No new notice has been published in this category since 17 April 2026, 167 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 vehicles and fleet markets?
Among the 41 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable vehicles and fleet market, Switzerland ranks 18th by number of records. The largest is Germany (12,804 records against 869 here). Within Switzerland itself, vehicles and fleet is the 7th largest of the 56 procurement categories tracked here.
Where do the Switzerland vehicles and fleet records on this page come from?
These 869 records are collected from 1 official source: TED (869). 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 Vehicles and Fleet 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 vehicles and fleet notice in Switzerland is visible. Set an alert to be told when the next one opens.
Switzerland – Elevator-platforms trucks – Ersatzbeschaffung Turmwagen
Switzerland – Ships and boats – Polizeischiff
Switzerland – Vehicles for the emergency services – Acquisition de camions transport d'eau
Switzerland – Firefighting vehicles – Lieferung von 7 Modulfahrzeugen Nr.110 (Nr. 7/2025/KAF_Fz. Nr. 110)
Switzerland – Railway-track construction materials and supplies – Déplacement boucle de Trèfle-Blanc - Fourniture d’appareils de voie appareil de dilatation et de rail cintrés
Switzerland – Parts of railway or tramway locomotives or rolling stock; railways traffic-control equipment – Radsatzwellen ICN / IC2000 / NPZ
Switzerland – Motor vehicles – Beschaffung Fahrzeuge Kantonaler Sozialdienst
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