askTender Partners · Germany

Tender work in Germany. Signed by you.

Companies bidding on Germany’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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12Services for Partners

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20Steps mapped in Germany

How filing works in Germany

You work on the portal under your own login. In Germany, the client adds you as a named user on its account on the e-Vergabe platforms (e-Vergabe des Bundes, DTVP and others): 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 Germany

Regional Rechtsanwaltskammer; Bundesrechtsanwaltskammer (BRAK)

Rechtsanwalt / Fachanwalt für Vergaberecht

Legal review of tender documents, Rügen (complaints) and Nachprüfungsverfahren before the Vergabekammer; Draft Vollmachten and Bietergemeinschaft agreements; Self-cleaning (Selbstreinigung) submissions

2 services on the DeskLawyers

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Steuerberaterkammer (BStBK); Wirtschaftsprüferkammer (WPK)

Steuerberater (StB) / vereidigter Buchprüfer / Wirtschaftsprüfer (WP)

Confirm turnover from construction work for the last 3 years and minimum-wage compliance (PQ-VOB accepts a sworn WP/StB confirmation); Request Bescheinigung in Steuersachen and § 48b EStG Freistellungsbescheinigung for the client as its tax representative;…

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Verein für die Präqualifikation von Bauunternehmen e.V.

PQ-Stelle (prequalification body, DAkkS-accredited) and ISO certification bodies

Prequalify works contractors in the Amtliches Verzeichnis PQ-VOB (checks register, tax, social, BG, SOKA, references, turnover); ISO 9001/14001/45001/27001 certification

3 services on the DeskCertification bodies

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State justice administrations

Allgemein beeidigter / ermächtigter Übersetzer

Certified German translations of foreign register extracts, tax/social certificates and references

1 service on the DeskTranslators

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Notarkammern / Bundesnotarkammer

Notar

Public certification (Beglaubigung) of signatures, e.g. on written applications for a Gewerbezentralregister extract and on Vollmachten; Handelsregister filings

Called in when a tender asksNotaries

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BaFin

Bank or Kreditversicherer (surety insurer) issuing Bürgschaften

Vertragserfüllungs- and Mängelansprüchebürgschaften (VOB/B § 17), advance-payment guarantees; Betriebshaftpflicht insurance certificates

1 service on the DeskBanks and sureties

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Bid writers

Vergabeberater / Ausschreibungsdienst (unregulated)

Register as a user of the bidder's company account on the e-Vergabe platform, download documents, prepare EEE and Formblätter, upload the bid in Textform when authorised

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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 / Fachanwalt für Vergaberecht

Vollmacht (power of attorney) for the declaring/signing person

Bids are declarations of the company; a person other than the statutory representative needs a Vollmacht (some registers, e.g. the GZR, refuse proxies).
Legal documents

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Bietergemeinschaft (consortium) declaration

Consortia are treated as one bidder and need no particular legal form to bid; they name a representative and accept joint liability.
Legal documents

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Steuerberater (StB) / vereidigter Buchprüfer / Wirtschaftsprüfer (WP)

Bescheinigung in Steuersachen / tax compliance evidence

Finanzamt certificate of tax compliance; unpaid taxes are a mandatory exclusion ground, so buyers and PQ-Stellen ask for it (or the § 48b EStG exemption certificate for construction).
Tax registration

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Freistellungsbescheinigung § 48b EStG (construction withholding tax exemption)

Without it, the client (buyer) must withhold 15% construction tax from payments for construction work; issued on application if tax claims are not at risk and a domestic authorised recipient (inländischer…
Tax registration

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Unbedenklichkeitsbescheinigungen: health-insurance funds (social contributions) and Berufsgenossenschaft (accident insurance)

Proof that statutory social-security and accident-insurance (BG, qualified certificate with wage totals) contributions are paid; asked by buyers and PQ-Stellen.
Tax, social-security and labour compliance certificates

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SOKA-BAU certificate (Unbedenklichkeits-/Enthaftungsbescheinigung)

Proof of contributions to the construction industry's social funds and minimum-wage compliance for employers under the BRTV/VTV; others use a sworn WP/StB confirmation.
Tax, social-security and labour compliance certificates

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Turnover confirmation and references

Net construction turnover for the last 3 financial years (WP/StB confirmation or audited accounts) and at least three references per work category from the last 5 years (PQ-VOB); buyers set similar requirements.
Experience and past-performance evidence

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PQ-Stelle (prequalification body, DAkkS-accredited) and ISO certification bodies

Prequalification for works — Amtliches Verzeichnis PQ-VOB

Contract-independent check of suitability evidence (§ 6a VOB/A) by a PQ-Stelle; listing counts as proof of suitability for works tenders above and below threshold; open to domestic and foreign construction firms (not…
Procurement portal registrations

Fee set by each PQ-Stelle on a…

Official list of prequalified companies for supplies and services (AVPQ, chambers of commerce)

Chamber-run (IHK) prequalification list for supply and service providers; a listing counts as suitability evidence.
Procurement portal registrations

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ISO certificates (DAkkS or EA-member accredited)

Quality/environment/information-security certificates requested as suitability evidence; equivalent certificates must be accepted.
Quality and management-system certifications

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Allgemein beeidigter / ermächtigter Übersetzer

Certified German translation

Buyers set the language (almost always German) and typically want German translations of certificates and references.
Legal documents

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Bank or Kreditversicherer (surety insurer) issuing Bürgschaften

Bürgschaften (performance / defects / advance) and Betriebshaftpflicht

Bid bonds are unusual; works contracts under VOB/B may require performance and defects-liability securities (often 5% / 3% in practice) and insurance certificates.
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

Partners12 askTender Desk5 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

Finanzamt / Krankenkassen / BG / SOKA-BAU↗e-Vergabe des Bundes (evergabe-online.de) / DTVP / state…↗

Open tenders in Germany

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Rules we follow in Germany

Rechtsanwalt / Fachanwalt für Vergaberecht. § 49b(3) BRAO: giving or receiving any share of fees or other advantage for referring mandates — to a lawyer or any third party — is prohibited; § 49b(2) bans success fees save RVG exceptions. askTender may not take or pay referral commissions from/to lawyers.
Steuerberater (StB) / vereidigter Buchprüfer / Wirtschaftsprüfer (WP). Professional rules (StBerG / WPO) apply; tax advice reserved to them under StBerG.
PQ-Stelle (prequalification body, DAkkS-accredited) and ISO…. PQ-Stellen must be impartial; fees are set by each PQ-Stelle on a cost basis.
Vergabeberater / Ausschreibungsdienst (unregulated). Rechtsdienstleistungsgesetz: any activity in a concrete third-party matter requiring legal examination of the individual case is a legal service reserved to lawyers, except as a minor ancillary service (§§ 2, 5 RDG). Bid writers must not give legal opinions (e.g. on Rügen).

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Sources gesetze-im-internet.de · pq-verein.de · justiz-dolmetscher.de · bundesjustizamt.de · evergabe-online.info · bundeskartellamt.de