Frequently asked questions

TEXFY collects the open public tenders in Switzerland from simap.ch, plus a selection from the EU's official journal (TED), and checks each one against the services and cantons of your business. You see what fits, why, and by when you need to submit.

No. The publication on simap.ch or TED is binding. This site does not accept bids.

TEXFY is a service of ARTIO Mining GmbH in Gossau ZH (UID CHE-443.857.465). Address and contact are in the legal notice.

With Pro, a language model summarises the description of a tender; every statement carries a verbatim quote from the publication and is marked as AI. In every plan, it translates the texts of a tender that are not published in your language: title, description, criteria, conditions and dates. The translation is marked, and the original is one click away and authoritative. The fit and the rest of the analysis are rule-based.

From the public data of simap.ch, the platform of the Confederation, the cantons and the municipalities, and from TED, the EU's official journal. TED contributes only tenders that are relevant to businesses in Switzerland: those from the regions on the Swiss border and from Liechtenstein, and from the rest of Europe contracts that can be carried out from Switzerland, such as software and IT, architecture, engineering and planning, research or consulting. From France come contracts below the EU thresholds from the BOAMP, those from the départements on the Swiss border. From Italy come contracts below the EU thresholds from the ANAC platform, those from Lombardy, Piedmont, the Aosta Valley and South Tyrol. Likewise come contracts below the EU thresholds from Germany (the federal Bekanntmachungsservice) and Austria (core data under the Federal Procurement Act), those from the regions on the Swiss border.

We read the tenders from simap.ch every day at 08:05, 12:00 and 18:00. A correction appears with the next update.

The interface is available in German, French, Italian and English. The texts of a tender that are not published in your language are machine-translated and marked as a translation; the original is one click away and authoritative.

No. The date shown is the one from the publication. The official publication is authoritative, also after a correction.

Prior information notices, requests for information, design contests and study contracts: publications that announce or prepare a contract. They are listed apart from the tenders and marked as such. With Pro, matching ones also arrive as a notification and in the digest.

Below the thresholds, contracting authorities often award directly or by invitation, without a public tender. Such contracts appear on no platform. The values are in the guide under “Thresholds and procedures”.

It compares your services, your cantons and your profile with the title, text and location of a tender. There are two levels, “Good fit” and “Possible fit”, each with its reasons. Each tender also gets a relevance grade from A to E, with the checks it rests on: service, location, type and deadline. A and B fit well, C and D possibly, E not (no service from your profile, or outside your region). There is no percentage.

New matches for your profile and your search alerts appear in your notifications and arrive in the e-mail digest. With Free, 3 search alerts are active and the digest arrives the next morning for good fits, everything else on Monday. With Pro, up to 20 search alerts are active and the digest arrives the next morning if something is a good fit or a search alert finds something, otherwise on Monday, with all new matches.

Yes, for saved tenders and your bids: when simap publishes a correction, a new deadline, an award, an abandonment or a revocation, a notification appears with the next update, and the owner and the person in charge get an e-mail. The e-mail can be switched off in the profile.

Yes. For your bids, an e-mail reminder arrives 7, 2 and 1 days before the submission deadline, also to the person in charge. The deadlines can also be added as a calendar entry or through a calendar subscription.

To the contracting authority, by the route named in the official tender, often online on simap.ch. This site does not accept bids.

Yes. Invite your colleagues to your company. Everyone sees the same saved tenders and bids, and each bid can be assigned to a person. A team comes with Pro, every person at the Pro price.

Every bid has points to check, a list of the eligibility and award criteria to tick off, tasks with due dates, an envelope cover sheet, a proof folder and your references. Pro adds the cover letter as a Word file with your logo, the pre-filled self-declaration and the proof package as a ZIP.

Yes. Signed in, you download the list of tenders with your filters and your bids as an Excel or CSV file. With the calendar subscription, the deadlines of your bids and saved tenders appear in your calendar.

Free costs nothing and does not expire: search, check the fit, save tenders and prepare bids. Pro costs CHF 49.90 per person per month and takes work off your bid: the cover letter with your logo, the pre-filled self-declaration and the whole team on the same bid, plus all new matches in the next digest, more search alerts and early signals. New accounts use Pro free for 30 days, without payment details; after that Free applies automatically.

After 30 days the Free plan applies automatically. No subscription runs and no invoice arrives, your data stays. Only those who book Pro in the profile under “Subscription” subscribe to it.

Payment runs through Stripe; we see no card details. The subscription can be cancelled monthly. You cancel under “Manage subscription”; Pro stays active until the end of the paid period.

No. All prices are in Swiss francs and final, as we are not registered for VAT.

Yes. Pro costs CHF 49.90 per person per month. All members count, the owner included, once they have accepted the invitation; open invitations do not count. With Free one person works, the owner.

For the account your e-mail address, for the company its name, services and cantons, plus what you create: saved tenders, search alerts, bids with notes, tasks and comments and, if you upload any, documents. The full list is in the privacy policy.

The application runs at Railway in a data centre in the Netherlands, the database at Neon in Frankfurt (Germany), and Resend sends the e-mails from Ireland. Documents are kept in private storage at Railway in the Netherlands. The providers and the safeguards for other countries are listed in the privacy policy.

Yes, both in the profile: the data export gives you your data as a file, and “Delete account” removes your account; an e-mail confirms it afterwards.