askTender Partners · Austria

Tender work in Austria. Signed by you.

Companies bidding on Austria’s public tenders need registrations, attested documents and filings that only a licensed professional may do. As an askTender Partner, that work comes to you as priced job offers, done under your own name and registration.

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9Services for Partners

6Done by the askTender Desk

21Steps mapped in Austria

How filing works in Austria

You work on the portal under your own login. In Austria, the client adds you as a named user on its account on the e-Vergabe platforms (ANKÖ, auftrag.at): you prepare, upload and, on the client's written go-ahead, submit under your own login (we confirm this with the portal before your first bid).

The client keeps its own login, the administrator role and every signature only it may give. You never use its credentials.

Who we work with in Austria

Kammer der Steuerberater:innen und Wirtschaftsprüfer:innen (KSW)

Steuerberater:in / Wirtschaftsprüfer:in (KSW member)

Obtain the Rückstandsbescheinigung (tax-arrears certificate) via FinanzOnline as the client's authorised representative (Vollmacht); Obtain the latest social-insurance account statement / certificate for the client (payroll mandate); Prepare balance sheets,…

4 services on the DeskAccountants

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Rechtsanwaltskammern / Österreichischer Rechtsanwaltskammertag (ÖRAK)

Rechtsanwalt / Rechtsanwältin

Review tender documents, challenge them (up to 7 days before deadline when the bid period > 17 days), file review and interim-injunction applications (BVwG / Land review bodies); Draft Vollmachten and Arbeitsgemeinschaft (ARGE) agreements

1 service on the DeskLawyers

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Kammer der Ziviltechniker:innen

Ziviltechniker:in (architect / chartered engineer)

Prepare technical offers, ÖNORM bills of quantities and design inputs; often act for buyers too

Called in when a tender asksEngineers

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ANKÖ is a non-profit association listed in BVergG § 80(5)/§ 251(5); certification bodies…

ANKÖ (Auftragnehmerkataster Österreich) and accredited certification bodies…

Maintain the Liste geeigneter Unternehmen (LgU) — once-only suitability evidence buyers can query online (with automated feeds from Firmenbuch, GISA, ÖGK); ISO certification

1 service on the DeskCertification bodies

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Courts (Gerichtsdolmetscherliste, Justiz)

Allgemein beeidete und gerichtlich zertifizierte Dolmetscher:in / Übersetzer:in

German translations of foreign certificates (bids and attachments must be in German unless the documents allow otherwise)

1 service on the DeskTranslators

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FMA

Bank or surety insurer (Bankgarantie / Versicherungsgarantie)

Vadium (bid security) and Kaution / Haftrücklass guarantees — securities may be given by bank guarantee, surety insurance, cash or cash deposit at the obligor's choice; Professional liability insurance certificates (Berufshaftpflicht)

2 services on the DeskBanks and sureties

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Wirtschaftskammer (trade licence 'Unternehmensberatung')

Unternehmensberater / Ausschreibungsbüro

Search tenders, register as user on the hosting platform, prepare Eigenerklärung/EEE, ÖNORM price files and upload

Called in when a tender asksBid writers

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Work the Desk sends Partners

Each service, with the official cost and usual lead time where they’re published (— where none is). Your own fee is set per job, on top.

Steuerberater:in / Wirtschaftsprüfer:in (KSW member)

Rückstandsbescheinigung (tax-arrears certificate) from the tax authority

Latest certificate that no tax arrears exist — evidence of professional reliability.
Tax registration

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Latest social-insurance account statement (Kontoauszug) / ÖGK certificate

Evidence that social-insurance contributions are paid; plus buyers themselves query the ÖGK wage-and-social-dumping penalty register and the AuslBG penalty register (≤ 6 months old).
Tax, social-security and labour compliance certificates

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Bank declaration (Bonitätsauskunft), balance sheets and turnover declaration

Financial/economic capacity evidence: bank credit-rating letter, professional liability insurance, balance sheets where publication is mandatory at home, turnover for up to the last 3 years.
Accountant-attested financial certificates

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BUAK registration (construction workers' holiday and severance fund)

Statutory construction-sector fund; construction employers (incl. those posting workers to Austrian sites) deal with BUAK obligations and the BauID system.
Tax, social-security and labour compliance certificates

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Rechtsanwalt / Rechtsanwältin

ARGE (consortium) authorised person and subcontractor disclosure

Bids must name an authorised person for consortia and disclose subcontracted parts; subcontractors relied on for capacity must be named with the request to participate.
Legal documents

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ANKÖ (Auftragnehmerkataster Österreich) and accredited certification bodies…

ISO / quality-management certificates

Accredited certificates used as technical-capacity evidence where requested.
Quality and management-system certifications

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Allgemein beeidete und gerichtlich zertifizierte Dolmetscher:in / Übersetzer:in

German-language bid and translations

Bid and all attachments must be in German and in euro unless the documents expressly allow otherwise.
Legal documents

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Bank or surety insurer (Bankgarantie / Versicherungsgarantie)

Professional liability insurance (Berufshaftpflichtversicherung)

Proof of adequate professional liability insurance is a listed means of proving financial capacity.
Insurance

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Vadium (bid security) and Kaution / Haftrücklass

Where the tender requires it, proof that the Vadium was lodged must accompany the bid; securities can be bank guarantee, surety insurance, cash or cash deposit at the obligor's choice (no statutory Vadium cap).
Bid security

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How work reaches you

Offer. A client’s bid needs work only your profession may do. You get the requirement, the tender’s format, the deadline and your fee.
Accept. Accept within 4 hours and confirm you have no conflict. The client sees your firm’s name and shares what you need.
Do the work. Ask the client for anything missing, right on the job. Sign under your own name and registration, and upload.
Checked. askTender checks every deliverable against the tender before the client sees it. If something’s off, you hear exactly what.
Paid. The client approves, it goes into their bid, and your fee is released.

Who does what

Partners9 askTender Desk6 The bidding company itself6

The company keeps only what the law reserves to it: its identity checks, its own digital signature, and signing its declarations and bid. We never use a client’s signature, PIN or portal login.

Portals

FinanzOnline / ÖGK / ANKÖ↗Hosting platform↗Hosting platform (ANKÖ Vergabeportal, auftrag.at, ProVia,…↗USP Ausschreibungssuche / TED↗

Open tenders in Austria

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Rules we follow in Austria

Steuerberater:in / Wirtschaftsprüfer:in (KSW member). Professional rules under the WTBG apply; legal representation in review proceedings reserved to Rechtsanwälte.
Rechtsanwalt / Rechtsanwältin. Professional rules (RAO / RL-BA) restrict fee-sharing and paid referrals; exact wording not re-verified in this pass.
Ziviltechniker:in (architect / chartered engineer). A Ziviltechniker who prepared the tender for the buyer has a conflict and must not help a bidder in the same procedure.
Unternehmensberater / Ausschreibungsbüro. Legal representation/advice is reserved to Rechtsanwälte (not verified in detail here); bid writers cannot sign with the client's ID Austria.

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