Centrale d'achats et d'ingénierie biomédicale Vaud-Genève (CAIB)

How to win their contracts

Measured from Centrale d'achats et d'ingénierie biomédicale Vaud-Genève (CAIB)'s own published record — no estimates, no generic advice.

• Plan for about 45 days to prepare a bid — that is the median gap between publication and deadline across 21 of their tenders.
• They publish about 4.8 tenders a month, measured over 4 months of history.
• Half of their 66 awarded contracts are worth CHF519.7k or less — size your bid to that range.
• Most of their buying falls in construction work, medical equipments, pharmaceuticals and personal care products, electrical machinery, apparatus, equipment and consumables; lighting.
• Their most frequent suppliers are Tapernoux SA (4), Groupe E Connect SA (3), Swisscom (Schweiz) AG (2) — expect to bid against incumbents who already know this buyer.