askTender Partners · Switzerland

Tender work in Switzerland. Signed by you.

Companies bidding on Switzerland’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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6Services for Partners

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16Steps mapped in Switzerland

How filing works in Switzerland

You work on the portal under your own login. In Switzerland, the client adds you as a named user on its account on simap.ch: you prepare, upload and, on the client's written go-ahead, submit under your own login.

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 Switzerland

Cantonal supervisory authorities for lawyers

Rechtsanwalt / avocat (registered in a cantonal lawyers' register under the BGFA)

Advise on participation conditions, exclusion grounds (BöB Art. 44/45) and award decisions; File appeals within 20 days to the Federal Administrative Court (federal) or cantonal courts; Draft Vollmachten and consortium (Bietergemeinschaft) agreements

1 service on the DeskLawyers

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Largely unregulated for fiduciary services; auditors licensed by the Federal Audit…

Treuhänder/in (fiduciary; e.g. TREUHAND|SUISSE member) or licensed auditor (RAB)

Obtain AHV/compensation-fund, BVG and UVG confirmations and tax-payment confirmations for the client; Order the debt-collection register extract (Betreibungsregisterauszug) for the client; Run the Logib equal-pay self-test with the client's payroll data

3 services on the DeskAccountants

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Cantons

Notar/in (cantonal) and cantonal chancelleries (Staatskanzlei) for apostilles

Certify signatures and copies; certify translations; Swiss documents for use abroad get apostilles from the cantonal chancellery

Called in when a tender asksNotaries

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Translators

Translator (certified translations usually via notarial certification)

Translate bids/annexes into German, French or Italian (federal buyers must accept these three; cantonal buyers use the canton's language)

1 service on the DeskTranslators

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Swiss Accreditation Service (SAS, SECO)

SAS-accredited certification body

ISO 9001/14001/45001/27001 certification used as suitability evidence

1 service on the DeskCertification bodies

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FINMA

Bank or insurer (Erfüllungsgarantie / Solidarbürgschaft); liability insurer

Performance guarantees where the contract requires security; liability insurance certificates

Called in when a tender asksBanks and sureties

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Bid writers

Beschaffungs-/Ausschreibungsberater (unregulated)

Hold its own simap.ch login and request to join the client's tenderer organisation (one person can belong to several organisations with different roles); Download documents, use the Q&A forum, prepare offers and the BKB self-declaration for the client's…

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.

Rechtsanwalt / avocat (registered in a cantonal lawyers' register under the BGFA)

Bietergemeinschaft (consortium) and subcontractor declarations

Consortia bid jointly (simap supports consortium profiles); the self-declaration covers subcontractors.
Legal documents

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Treuhänder/in (fiduciary; e.g. TREUHAND|SUISSE member) or licensed auditor (RAB)

Equal-pay evidence (Logib analysis, government check or GEA report) for tenderers with 100+ employees

In federal procurement, tenderers with 100 or more employees (excl. apprentices) must show how equal pay was checked: Logib proof, a government check, or an independent GEA analysis report; checks possible regardless…
Tax, social-security and labour compliance certificates

Free (Logib self-test runs…

Evidence of paid taxes and social contributions (AHV/compensation fund, BVG, UVG confirmations; tax confirmation)

Since the 2026 self-declaration, tenderers confirm taxes and social contributions are paid; buyers may request supporting confirmations (compensation fund, pension fund, accident insurer, tax office).
Tax, social-security and labour compliance certificates

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Debt-collection register extract (Betreibungsregisterauszug)

Extract from the debt-enforcement office at the company's seat showing enforcement proceedings; commonly requested by Swiss buyers as financial-reliability evidence.
Accountant-attested financial certificates

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Translator (certified translations usually via notarial certification)

Bid language (DE/FR/IT) and translations

Federal buyers must accept bids and questions in German, French or Italian; English only where the notice allows; cantonal tenders use the canton's language.
Legal documents

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SAS-accredited certification body

ISO and other management-system certificates

Certificates buyers may set as suitability criteria; equivalent evidence must be accepted.
Quality and management-system certifications

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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

Partners6 askTender Desk7 The bidding company itself3

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

SEM notification procedure↗simap.ch↗simap.ch / BKB forms↗simap.ch or paper↗

Open tenders in Switzerland

Bidding in Switzerland?

Every step to bid in Switzerland↗How askTender bids for you↗

Rules we follow in Switzerland

Rechtsanwalt / avocat (registered in a cantonal lawyers' register…. BGFA professional rules (independence, conflicts) apply; rules on fee-sharing with non-lawyers not re-verified in this pass.
Notar/in (cantonal) and cantonal chancelleries (Staatskanzlei) for…. Notarial systems differ by canton.
Beschaffungs-/Ausschreibungsberater (unregulated). The self-declaration and offer must be signed by the client's authorised representative(s); no legal representation in appeals.

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