Business Opportunities

Osec is able to provide various forms of support in order to increase the success of your business opportunities abroad such as easier access to public invitations to tender, knowledge transfer within the framework of a wide variety of events at home and abroad, participation in specialist trade fairs including joint participation in the Swiss Pavilion, trend information and access to an international network.

Events

Fair Services for local industry-specific trade fairs will support you with technical, structural and personnel-related matters or will provide you with turnkey exhibition stands under the umbrella of the SWISS Pavilion, allowing you to take part in trade fairs with other Swiss companies.


Fairs

Personal meetings and exchanging experiences and knowledge directly with potential business partners, official bodies or other market experts are the perfect way to round off your preliminary investigations. We are able to assist you with this – both in organisational terms and logistically – whether at home or abroad.


Public Deals

Public invitations to tenderThe public sector awards contracts amounting to approx. 16% of a country’s GDP (approx. 1500 billion € in the EU) each year. These projects are advertised publicly, are independent of the economic situation and offer interesting export possibilities for Swiss SMEs in all industries.

The tendering platform STEP (Selective Tenders & Projects) continually collects national and international business opportunities and invitations to tenders and passes on invitations to tender and projects which are relevant to the registered Swiss SMEs without time delays.

As a subscriber to STEP each Swiss SME can access the entire STEP database and therefore also receive information about important projects from the private sector. These additional business opportunities are checked by the Osec external network (comprising 93 embassies, 12 missions at international organisations as well as 41 general consulates and the 16 Swiss Business Hubs), and are recorded in STEP.

Why not take the opportunity to test STEP free of charge? Register at: http://www.tenders.ch
from all over the world are interesting export opportunities for Swiss SMEs, but how do you come by these? The tendering platform and online databank tendersThe public sector awards contracts amounting to approx. 16% of a country’s GDP (approx. 1500 billion € in the EU) each year. These projects are advertised publicly, are independent of the economic situation and offer interesting export possibilities for Swiss SMEs in all industries.

The tendering platform STEP (Selective Tenders & Projects) continually collects national and international business opportunities and invitations to tenders and passes on invitations to tender and projects which are relevant to the registered Swiss SMEs without time delays.

As a subscriber to STEP each Swiss SME can access the entire STEP database and therefore also receive information about important projects from the private sector. These additional business opportunities are checked by the Osec external network (comprising 93 embassies, 12 missions at international organisations as well as 41 general consulates and the 16 Swiss Business Hubs), and are recorded in STEP.

Why not take the opportunity to test STEP free of charge? Register at: ‹http://www.tenders.ch›
.ch is the simple and clever answer. We continually gather information on national and international invitations to tender and business opportunities. We will inform you of the latest projects which are relevant to your business on a daily basis. Here you can find further information.


Trends

What developments are taking place in foreign markets and their industries? What trends can be seen from this? We will pass on the knowledge which we have gained from studies, events and personal talks to you.

 

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