Legal & Procurement
Procurement & Legal

Get professional support for your sourcing and procurement needs.

As a reliable partner for the procurement and licensing of software solutions, we offer you well-founded advice and a wide range of services for your institution. For overarching topics, we bring together the requirements of the individual institutions and use our synergies to negotiate centralised solutions for the entire community that are specifically tailored to the education market.

There are many reasons to choose Switch

Procurement is time-consuming and requires specialised expertise. We provide you with expert support.

Attractive community benefits

We network and represent the Swiss higher education community in matters relating to ICT procurement and ICT law and exploit potential synergies to find broad-based, viable solutions. This strong negotiation position means you benefit from favourable conditions, such as better data protection, solutions tailored to the education market, greater legal certainty and lower costs.

Shape the future with us

Join us in developing new approaches to ICT procurement in education. We offer exciting collaboration opportunities within the higher education community.

At the interface of law and technology

Thanks to their broad ICT-specific knowledge, our legal experts have a head start over many of their peers. This expertise flows directly into Switch's procurements and contracts, thereby contributing to additional legal certainty.

Switch as a public law institution

Switch is an institution governed by public law and is considered a contracting authority within the meaning of Swiss public procurement law.

This is our community - check it out

ICT Law Working Group

The ICT Law Working Group is made up of representatives from universities and Switch who are involved in legal or related matters.

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Claudia Lienert

Head of Community Management

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Kaspar Scheller

Procurement Specialist

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Stefan Arnet

Procurement Specialist

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Nicolas Shepherd

Procurement Specialist

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Cathy Villars-Day

Procurement Specialist

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Ursina Ducrey

Procurement Specialist

Procurement Team