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Subscribe to the RSS feedProjects before the tender
Under “Projects” you find planned projects before they are put out to tender: construction and planning credits of the parliaments, rail projects and planned purchases of SBB, grid projects of Swissgrid, wastewater plants with a new treatment stage, large alpine solar plants, building projects of the City of Zurich, projects in Geneva, the investment plans of Basel-Stadt and the City of Geneva, the federal rail expansions and the measures of the agglomeration programmes, each with its source and a link. The page is open to everyone.
View: Projects before the tenderBuilding applications from the whole canton of Zurich
Signed in, you see the building applications from the open data of the canton of Zurich, about a week after publication, also in your building alerts.
View: Building applications from the whole canton of ZurichMore planning notices
New among the planning notices: plan approvals for high-voltage installations, railways and cable cars, public plan displays with a concrete project, river engineering projects in the canton of Zurich and projects of the canton of Ticino.
View: More planning noticesAward lists of universities, Ticino and St. Gallen
Under “Federal contracts” you also find the awards of ETH Zurich, EPFL and PSI, those of the canton of Ticino and the City of Lugano and the bid openings of the canton of St. Gallen: who won which contract at which price, with a link to the original.
View: Award lists of universities, Ticino and St. GallenWhole border regions in France and Germany
Contracts below the EU thresholds come from the whole border regions: in France from 14 départements of Rhône-Alpes, Franche-Comté and Alsace, in Germany from 33 districts of the regions of Freiburg, Tübingen and Swabia.
View: Whole border regions in France and GermanyBuilding applications from Lucerne, Uri and Glarus
New: building applications of organisations from the official gazettes of Lucerne and Uri (signed in) and of Glarus (for everyone), each with a link to the publication.
View: Building applications from Lucerne, Uri and GlarusRoad projects from Zurich, St. Gallen and Graubünden
Under “Road projects” you now find the planned projects of the canton of Zurich and the road construction programmes of St. Gallen and Graubünden, with municipality, kind of work and costs, each with a link to the original.
View: Road projects from Zurich, St. Gallen and GraubündenSaved searches with a radius
A saved search keeps the radius around your company's seat or a postcode and then reports only matches within it, in the notifications and in the digest.
View: Saved searches with a radiusSupplier portals of large buyers
SBB, Swissgrid, energy utilities, industrial, pharma and real estate firms award many contracts by invitation only, to registered suppliers. Under “Supplier portals” you find the checked pages where registration starts, with portal, access and the date of the check, filterable by sector and portal.
View: Supplier portals of large buyers
Construction market of the cantons from open federal statistics
Every canton page shows under “Market in the canton” how much public and private clients have invested over the last years, the work backlog, the measures supported by the Buildings Programme and the new photovoltaic plants, from the data of the Federal Statistical Office and the Swiss Federal Office of Energy. Under “Construction market of the cantons” all 26 cantons are compared. Every figure names its source and the date of the data.
View: Construction market of the cantons from open federal statistics
Planned FEDRO procurements and federal building projects
Under “Federal projects” you find the roughly 360 procurements the Federal Roads Office FEDRO plans to publish on simap.ch in 2026, with type of service, planned publication, planned start and branch, filterable by canton, branch, service and quarter. Also the civil building projects of the real estate dispatches 2024 to 2026 with place, credit and schedule. Every entry names its source with a link to the original; only the publication on simap.ch is binding.
View: Planned FEDRO procurements and federal building projects
Tenders from Germany and Austria below the EU thresholds
Contracts from the districts on the Swiss border and Lake Constance (Lörrach, Waldshut, Konstanz, Bodenseekreis, Schwarzwald-Baar-Kreis, Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald, Freiburg, Lindau) and from Tyrol and Vorarlberg that do not appear on TED are in the tender list under Germany and Austria, with the source, the date of the data and a link to the notice. The Austrian ones have no AI summary and no machine translation.
View: Tenders from Germany and Austria below the EU thresholds
Tenders from Italy below the EU thresholds
Contracts from Lombardy, Piedmont, the Aosta Valley and South Tyrol that appear only on the ANAC platform and not on TED are in the tender list under Italy, with the source (Fonte: ANAC – Piattaforma pubblicità a valore legale), the date of retrieval and a link to the notice. TEXFY takes over corrected versions.
View: Tenders from Italy below the EU thresholds
Tenders from France below the EU thresholds
Contracts from Ain, Haute-Savoie, Jura, Doubs, Territoire de Belfort and Haut-Rhin that appear only in the BOAMP and not on TED are in the tender list under France, with the source, the date of the data and a link to the notice. TEXFY takes over corrected deadlines and cancellations.
View: Tenders from France below the EU thresholds
The digest only with news that counts
Except on Monday, the digest only comes on days with news that counts: with Pro and during the trial a new good fit, a match of a search alert, a correction or an alert for awards, contracts or building applications; with Free a new good fit. Days with only “Possible fit” matches send nothing; with Pro those come with the next digest, with Free on Monday. On Monday everything collected comes, with “Your market this week”: new awards, expiring contracts, building applications and open early signals for your services and cantons. For each tender, “Not a fit?” tells us it does not fit.
View: The digest only with news that countsFirst digest the next morning
New accounts with a set-up profile get their first digest the next morning, with up to five good fits that are already open and have at least 10 days left before the deadline, if there are any.
What is new since your last visit
The number on “For you” shows the matches that are new since you last opened “For you”. The overview names the new matches since your last visit and when the next digest comes, and after the deadline of a bid it asks “Did you submit?”. If you open a tender without being signed in from a link in the digest, a deadline reminder or the trial e-mail, “Welcome back” takes you back to it after signing in.
View: What is new since your last visitA question after 90 days without a visit
If nobody from your company signed in or visited the platform for 90 days, the question “Shall we keep sending you tenders?” comes instead of the next digest. Then the digest pauses for the whole team until someone chooses “Yes, keep sending”, signs in or visits the platform. New matches keep collecting in “For you”.
View: A question after 90 days without a visitThe bell counts what needs something from you
The number on the bell counts only what needs something from you, such as deadlines, changes and tasks. New matches and early signals stay in the notifications and count as read as soon as you open them.
View: The bell counts what needs something from youThe trial e-mail with the trial's figures
The e-mails before and at the end of the trial now count only what your team did during the days of the trial. New: where there are any, they name the bids submitted and won, how many matches are a good fit, the AI summaries read and your next deadline.
Ready to submit? and reference list
Step 4 of a bid shows under “Ready to submit?” how far the documents and, where the bid has them, checks, criteria, proofs and tasks are done, with Pro also the requirements from the documents, each with a link. If the documents are on simap and none is uploaded yet, “Remind me to upload them the day after tomorrow” in step 1 can create a task for you. With Pro you download your references as a “Reference list as a Word file”, newest first; if there are references from the last 5 years, it holds only those.
View: Ready to submit? and reference listRequirements become tasks
With Pro, “Add as task” adds each answered requirement from the documents to the bid's tasks. If the answer names a maximum age for proofs, you take it into the proof folder with one click.
View: Requirements become tasksAn assessment with both sides
The recommendation on the detail page names its reasons first and the other side separately below, under “In favour:” or “Keep in mind:”. In a bid, the first open step is marked.
Search with typos, postcode and CPV code
If a misspelt word finds nothing, the list suggests a word from the open tenders with “Did you mean:”. You find postcodes and CPV codes straight from the keyword field, and titles with a word that starts with your search word rank higher. In the tender list the radius is measured from any postcode, also without an account and without a company address.
View: Search with typos, postcode and CPV codeLiechtenstein and SBB's planned procurements
Tenders from Liechtenstein below the thresholds, from the Principality's official gazette, are on a page of their own, also without an account, with a note on reciprocity for Swiss companies. You find the link in the tender list under “More sources”, with a link to SBB Infrastructure's list of planned procurements on the SBB website.
View: Liechtenstein and SBB's planned procurementsBuilding applications by organisations, open to all
Building applications from the official gazettes of AR, BE, BL, BS, SH, SO, VS and ZH that involve only organisations, and no sole proprietorship or partnership (general, limited or simple), are now visible without an account, with their source. Those with a sole proprietorship, a partnership, with private persons, without named parties or from other cantons are visible to signed-in accounts only. Not shown at all are applications from OW, those with unclear parties, in ZH and SO those with private persons, and withdrawn and expired applications.
View: Building applications by organisations, open to allFree with 3 search alerts
With Free you have 3 active search alerts instead of one. Their matches come with Monday's digest, good fits also on other days.
View: Free with 3 search alerts
Requirements from the documents
With Pro, “Read requirements” goes through the documents uploaded to a bid with twelve fixed questions. Each answer only comes with a checked quote, and the team records the state of its check for each answer. One run counts as one question of the month.
View: Requirements from the documentsScanned documents too
Text recognition on our server reads scanned PDFs without a text layer, so questions and requirements cover them as well.
Word forms and signature package
With Pro, TEXFY fills in the contracting authority's Word forms as well as PDFs with suggestions from your company data; you check them and download a filled-in copy. The signature package puts all PDF pages that need a signature into one PDF to print.
View: Word forms and signature packageSearch alerts per person
In a team each person has their own search alerts, and their matches go only to them. The owner's search alerts apply to the whole company.
View: Search alerts per person
Finer filters and highlighted search words
Under “More filters” you narrow by CPV, BKP and NPK codes, procedure and first publication, and leave out words. Search alerts know the same filters. The list shows 25 results per page and highlights your search words.
View: Finer filters and highlighted search wordsWithin a radius and on the map
Signed in, you filter tenders within 5 to 100 km of the address in your company details, measured to the centre of each municipality. “On the map” shows in which municipalities the tenders of the list are carried out.
View: Within a radius and on the mapArchive with awards
In the archive you search closed tenders from simap.ch and their awards by keyword, canton, service and contracting authority. Signed in, you see every entry.
View: Archive with awardsPreview without an account
Describe in one sentence what your business does: you see at once which open tenders fit, graded A to E. Nothing is stored, and one click takes these details into a new account.
View: Preview without an accountHide for me only
In a team you hide a tender in “For you” for yourself only or for the whole team. You filter the hidden tenders by either choice.
View: Hide for me onlyPrint and export as Markdown
From its detail page you print a tender as an A4 page or save it as a PDF. Signed in, you also download it as a Markdown file.
Report a data error
At the end of every tender you report wrong or missing details and translation errors, even without an account.
Your own tenders on the board
An invitation or a contract outside simap goes in under “Add your own tender”. It runs on the board like any bid, with deadline reminders, tasks, proof folder and calendar.
View: Your own tenders on the boardMy tasks
“My tasks” collects your open tasks from all bids, by due date. A task can be due a few days before the deadline and moves along when the deadline changes. Done tasks show who did them.
View: My tasksClose with the result, and your results
You close a bid with its result, a reason and a note. “Results” shows your win rate, the outcomes and the value of your amounts per year and service.
View: Close with the result, and your resultsCollect questions to the contracting authority
For each bid your team collects unclear points as a list for the round of questions, with the deadline for questions and the way to ask them. Only your list is stored; nothing is sent.
View: Collect questions to the contracting authorityQuestions on the documents
With Pro you ask questions about the documents uploaded to a bid. The AI only answers when it finds the passage word for word in the documents, and shows the file and page.
View: Questions on the documentsReminders of question deadlines and mandatory appointments
For saved tenders and bids in progress, a notification and an e-mail remind you of the deadline for questions and of appointments the tender calls mandatory, such as a site visit: three days before and on the day before.
View: Reminders of question deadlines and mandatory appointmentsNotification and e-mail on assignment
Whoever is newly assigned to a bid gets a notification and an e-mail with the deadline and a link. Mentions in comments now have an e-mail switch of their own.
View: Notification and e-mail on assignmentA digest for every member
Team members switch on a digest of their own in the profile. It comes in their language, even when the owner's digest is off.
View: A digest for every memberAlerts for awards and expiring contracts
On the pages of cantons, services and contracting authorities you create an alert for new awards, and for expiring contracts one for your selection. Matches come with the digest and count towards the search alerts of your plan.
View: Alerts for awards and expiring contractsExport awards and contracts
Signed in, you download the awards of the contracting authority, canton and service pages and of the monthly reports, and the expiring contracts, as a CSV or Excel file.
View: Export awards and contractsBuilding applications as leads, on the map and within a radius
You assign a building application to a person in your team, with a follow-up date and a note; they get a notification and an e-mail. Building applications also show on the map and within a radius of your company's location.
View: Building applications as leads, on the map and within a radiusTwo-factor sign-in and passkeys
In your account you protect the sign-in with a code from an authenticator app and backup codes, or you sign in with a passkey. When someone signs in on a new device, you get an e-mail.
View: Two-factor sign-in and passkeysFirst steps for the whole account
If you hide the first steps, they stay hidden in every browser. Owners and admins now also see the step “Invite your team” there.
View: First steps for the whole accountHelp centre and glossary
The help explains the functions step by step, with pictures and frequent questions. The glossary explains the terms of public procurement with their article in the PPA, PPO and IAPP, and four new guide articles cover questions, proofs, exclusion and appeals.
View: Help centre and glossaryClear before you cancel
Before you cancel, the subscription says until when Pro stays active and that you then continue with Free at no cost.
View: Clear before you cancelPlanning notices from the official gazettes
Road building, hydraulic engineering and plan approvals for transport and energy from the cantonal official gazettes, with the deadline for objections or participation and a link to the original publication. For signed-in accounts only.
View: Planning notices from the official gazettesPro per person
Pro costs CHF 49.90 per person per month; every person in the team counts. Free is for one person. Existing teams have a transition period until 27.01.2027.
View: Pro per person
Search by parts of words and several filters
Part of a word is enough: “paint” also finds “painting” and “painter”. You filter several cantons and services together, and every word of the search has to appear.
View: Search by parts of words and several filtersRelevance grade A to E
Every tender has a grade from A to E with its parts service, place, type and deadline: on the cards, in “For you” and on the detail page.
View: Relevance grade A to EAt a glance, risks and an assessment
The detail page shows deadline, place, type, procedure, weighting and eligibility at a glance, risks with the exact quote and a non-binding assessment of whether bidding is worthwhile.
Export as CSV and Excel
You download the list, the saved tenders and the bids as a CSV or Excel file, with a column for the source.
View: Export as CSV and ExcelSave, even without an account
“Save & deadline reminder” also works without an account: after signing up and setting up, the tender is saved and you are back on its page.
Bids as a board
Your bids sit in columns by their status. You drag cards with the mouse to the next step; on a phone and with the keyboard every card has “Move”.
View: Bids as a boardCriteria check and comments
For each bid you check the eligibility and award criteria with a state, a note and a responsible person. If simap changes a criterion, the check shows that it needs checking again. In comments you mention team members with @.
View: Criteria check and commentsCalendar subscription
The deadlines and dates of your bids and saved tenders appear in Outlook, Google or Apple, each under its own name.
View: Calendar subscriptionThe cover letter stays saved
The draft cover letter stays with the bid, on every plan. As a Word file it comes with Pro.
View: The cover letter stays savedProofs with “valid until”
For company documents you record the type of proof, the issuer and the “valid until” date. 30 days before it expires a notification reminds you, with Pro an e-mail as well.
View: Proofs with “valid until”Change alerts
If the deadline of a saved tender or a bid changes, or a correction, a cancellation, a revocation or an award comes in, it appears in the notifications and arrives bundled by e-mail.
View: Change alertsPersonal e-mails with their own switches
The person responsible for a bid gets deadline reminders and change alerts; tasks and mentions go to the person concerned. Everyone switches their e-mails off in the profile or unsubscribes with one click in the e-mail.
View: Personal e-mails with their own switchesContracting authorities and market data
Pages per contracting authority with the contracts awarded, monthly reports of the awards per canton and contracts that end soon. No rankings and no rating of companies.
View: Contracting authorities and market dataWatch building applications and alerts
You find building applications by keywords, related terms included, in the cantons of your profile. You watch them or hide them with a note, and alerts come with the digest.
View: Watch building applications and alertsOverview after signing in
The overview shows what matters now: new matches, near deadlines and bids in progress. New accounts also see their first steps there.
Prices, questions and contact
Prices, frequently asked questions and contact each have a page of their own.
View: Prices, questions and contact