askTender Partners · Bangladesh

Tender work in Bangladesh. Signed by you.

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

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8Partner roles

12Services for Partners

11Done by the askTender Desk

27Steps mapped in Bangladesh

How filing works in Bangladesh

The company presses submit. You do the rest. In Bangladesh, the Final Submission click is the tenderer's legal e-signature. You don't file on the portal: you do the registrations, certificates and attested documents in your own name, prepare the bid, and can guide the client through the submission.

Guided filing sessions are paid work too: you sit with the client’s signatory, file by file, until the receipt is saved. Nobody ever uses the client’s login or signature.

Who we work with in Bangladesh

Institute of Chartered Accountants of Bangladesh

Chartered accountant (ICAB member firm) / cost and management accountant (ICMAB)

Audit financial statements and register the audit report on ICAB's Document Verification System (DVS) so procuring entities and banks can verify it; Prepare turnover, liquid-asset and financial-capacity schedules for tender qualification; Prepare company…

1 service on the DeskAccountants

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National Board of Revenue (NBR)

Income tax practitioner / VAT agent

Register e-TIN and file income tax returns; obtain the return acknowledgement slip / proof of submission; Register BIN (VAT) and file VAT returns

3 services on the DeskLicensed specialists

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Bangladesh Bar Council

Advocate (Bangladesh Bar Council enrolled)

Draft JV agreements (on Tk 300 non-judicial stamp per standard documents), local-agent agreements and powers of attorney; Swear affidavits (legal capacity, non-insolvency) before a notary/magistrate; Handle complaints to the procuring entity, HOPE, the BPPA…

2 services on the DeskLawyers

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Ministry of Law (Notaries Ordinance 1961); home-country authority

Notary public (Bangladesh) / home-country notary; apostille

Notarise affidavits required with tenders (legal capacity; not insolvent); Attest documents; foreign public documents can be apostilled since Bangladesh joined the Apostille Convention (in force 30 March 2025)

Called in when a tender asksNotaries

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Translators

Translator (English)

Translate supporting documents into English (tenderers bear all costs and risks of translation)

1 service on the DeskTranslators

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Bangladesh Bank

Scheduled banks of Bangladesh (e-GP member banks); internationally reputable foreign…

Receive e-GP registration/renewal fees and tender document fees and update the e-GP system; Issue tender security (pay order, bank draft, bank guarantee) and performance security, and update e-GP; Issue the Letter of Commitment for Line of Credit used to…

3 services on the DeskBanks and sureties

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Customs agents

Local agent / local JV partner (Bangladeshi firm)

Act as in-country agent able to maintain the goods where the tender data sheet requires one; Be the mandatory local JV partner in government-funded international IT-services tenders (and reportedly all international tenders under the September 2026 Ordinance)

1 service on the DeskCustoms agents

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BSTI; Bangladesh Accreditation Board

BSTI (Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution) and accredited ISO certification…

Issue mandatory BSTI certification marks for listed products; Certify ISO management systems where tenders ask

1 service on the DeskCertification bodies

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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.

Chartered accountant (ICAB member firm) / cost and management accountant (ICMAB)

Audited financial statements (with ICAB DVS verification)

Turnover and financial-capacity qualifications rely on audited statements; ICAB's Document Verification System lets third parties verify audit reports.
Accountant-attested financial certificates

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Income tax practitioner / VAT agent

e-TIN certificate (income tax)

Taxpayer identification number; mandatory e-GP registration document for national tenderers and required with each tender.
Tax registration

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Income tax return acknowledgement slip (proof of return submission)

Tenders must include the acknowledgement slip issued by the income tax authority as proof of submitting the return for the assessment year named in the tender data sheet.
Tax registration

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VAT registration certificate / Business Identification Number (BIN)

VAT registration (BIN) is a mandatory e-GP document for national tenderers (VAT/GST for international) and a required tender document.
Tax registration

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Advocate (Bangladesh Bar Council enrolled)

Joint Venture agreement (standard form, Tk 300 non-judicial stamp)

JV tenderers attach a JV agreement on the standard sample, executed on a non-judicial stamp of Tk 300, naming the lead partner and joint and several liability.
Legal documents

Tk 300 non-judicial stamp

Complaint and Review Panel appeal

Complain in writing to the procuring entity within 7 days, then the HOPE, then a BPPA Review Panel; debarment appeals to the Debarment Review Board; writ in the High Court Division.
Other

—7 days to complain

Translator (English)

English translations and apostille of foreign documents

Supporting documents in other languages need English translations at the tenderer's cost and risk; Bangladesh joined the Apostille Convention (in force 30 March 2025), so apostilles can replace consular legalisation…
Legal documents

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Scheduled banks of Bangladesh (e-GP member banks); internationally reputable foreign…

Liquid assets / Bank's Letter of Commitment for Line of Credit

Works tenders require minimum liquid assets (typically 2–6 months' cash flow), substantiated by a scheduled bank's letter of commitment for a revolving line of credit on the standard form.
Accountant-attested financial certificates

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Tender security

Fixed amount up to 3% of the official cost estimate, as pay order, bank draft or unconditional bank guarantee from a scheduled bank of Bangladesh, or through e-GP; valid 28 days beyond tender validity.
Bid security

≤ 3% of official cost estimateBefore submission deadline

Performance security

Goods 10%; national works 5%; LTM works none up to Tk 1 crore, else 5%; up to 25% for significantly low or front-loaded bids; due within 7/10/14 working days of NOA depending on value.
Bid security

5–10% (up to 25%)7/10/14 working days…

Local agent / local JV partner (Bangladeshi firm)

Local agent and/or local JV partner

Where the TDS requires, a tenderer not doing business in Bangladesh must have an in-country agent able to maintain goods; government-funded international IT-services tenders require a local JV partner (Act No. 41 of…
Local-content and origin certificates

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BSTI (Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution) and accredited ISO certification…

BSTI mandatory certification / product conformity

Products on BSTI's mandatory list need BSTI certification marks; specifications may require test reports or ISO certification.
Product certifications

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Guided filing sessions

Guided filing session on e-GP

The portal has no delegate seat, so your own signatory logs in and submits. askTender (or your Partner) sits with them on a call, file by file, until the submission receipt is saved.

—30–90 minutes, booked befo

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

Partners12 askTender Desk11 The bidding company itself4

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

e-GP↗e-GP (eprocure.gov.bd)↗e-GP / BPPA↗e-GP member bank↗

Open tenders in Bangladesh

Bidding in Bangladesh?

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Rules we follow in Bangladesh

Chartered accountant (ICAB member firm) / cost and management…. Only ICAB practising firms sign statutory audit reports; independence rules apply.
Income tax practitioner / VAT agent. Must act under their own practitioner registration; the client's e-TIN and e-return logins remain the client's.
Advocate (Bangladesh Bar Council enrolled). Bar Council canons restrict advertising, touting and fee-sharing with non-advocates (text not fetched in this research); askTender must not share legal fees.
Scheduled banks of Bangladesh (e-GP member banks); internationally…. Tender security must come from a scheduled bank in Bangladesh or via e-GP.
Local agent / local JV partner (Bangladeshi firm). Must not be a related party or common legal representative of a competing tenderer (conflict of interest).

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Sources dvs.icab.org.bd · secure.incometax.gov.bd · bppa.gov.bd · hcch.net · eprocure.gov.bd · asktender.org