askTender Partners · Denmark

Tender work in Denmark. Signed by you.

Companies bidding on Denmark’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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7Partner roles

11Services for Partners

12Done by the askTender Desk

26Steps mapped in Denmark

How filing works in Denmark

You work on the portal under your own login. In Denmark, the client adds you as a named user on its account on ETHICS (Mercell): 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 Denmark

Advokatsamfundet / Advokatnævnet (under Retsplejeloven)

Advokat (member of Advokatsamfundet; udbudsret specialists)

Review tender documents, ESPD answers and contract terms (AB 18, labour clauses); Act under a written fuldmagt for the bidder: questions to the buyer, clarifications, complaints to Klagenævnet for Udbud; Be invited by the bidder as a 'full access'…

2 services on the DeskLawyers

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Erhvervsstyrelsen

Statsautoriseret / registreret revisor (godkendt revisor)

Issue an assurance statement (erklæring med sikkerhed) on turnover, equity or key ratios when a tender asks for audited figures; Act as the 'anmelder' (reporter) who connects a Danish company with foreign management to MitID Erhverv; Handle CVR/SE/VAT…

6 services on the DeskAccountants

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Bid writers

Tilbudsskriver / udbudskonsulent (unregulated)

Draft the technical/quality response (løsningsbeskrivelse) and price schedule; Work inside ETHICS/Mercell as an invited collaborator with full or limited access; Run the Q&A log and deadline calendar

Called in when a tender asksBid writers

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Erhvervsstyrelsen (beskikkelse of state-authorised translators)

Statsautoriseret translatør og tolk

Certified translation of foreign company certificates, financial statements and declarations into Danish where the notice only permits Danish

1 service on the DeskTranslators

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Domstolsstyrelsen / the district courts

Notarius publicus (at the district courts, byretterne)

Notarise signatures on powers of attorney and sworn/solemn declarations (where a home country issues no certificate); First-step legalisation of a company-signed document before the Ministry of Foreign Affairs apostille

Called in when a tender asksNotaries

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Finanstilsynet

Bank or kautionsforsikringsselskab (surety insurer) issuing AB 18 garanti

Issue the contractor's security (sikkerhedsstillelse) under AB 18 for works contracts; Issue performance or advance-payment guarantees asked for in service/supply contracts

1 service on the DeskBanks and sureties

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DANAK (Den Danske Akkrediteringsfond)

Accredited certification body (DANAK-accredited or equivalent EA-member accreditation)

Certify ISO 9001 / 14001 / 45001 / 27001 management systems that quality-assurance and environmental-management selection criteria ask for

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.

Advokat (member of Advokatsamfundet; udbudsret specialists)

RUT — Register of Foreign Service Providers

Foreign businesses posting workers (and some self-employed in construction/installation) must register the service no later than when work starts; from 1 January 2026 the service agreement, employment contracts and…
Tax, social-security and labour compliance certificates

No registration fee published;…same day

Complaint to Klagenævnet for Udbud

Complaint against an award; filed during the standstill it suspends contract signature until the Board rules (within 30 days).
Filing on the portal

DKK 20,000 (EU procedures) / DKK…10-day standstill window

Statsautoriseret / registreret revisor (godkendt revisor)

CVR number (Det Centrale Virksomhedsregister) — company or branch registration

Danish business registration number; not required to bid, but needed for a Danish company/branch, for VAT/employer registration and normally for invoicing once a contract runs in Denmark.
Company identity

DKK 670 to found an ApS/A/S/P/S…

VAT (moms) and employer registration in Denmark

Registration with Skattestyrelsen for VAT and, if staff are employed in Denmark, as employer (A-skat/AM-bidrag).
Tax registration

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Annual accounts / revisor statement on turnover, equity or solvency

Evidence of economic and financial standing (minimum turnover, equity ratio) — usually the filed annual report or a revisor's assurance statement on specific figures.
Accountant-attested financial certificates

—1–2 weeks for a revisor…

ISO 27001 / data-processing agreement and GDPR documentation

IT and data-handling tenders (two-thirds of SKI spend is IT) ask for information-security evidence (ISO 27001 or ISAE 3000/3402 assurance reports) and a data-processing agreement (databehandleraftale).
Security and cyber certifications

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Labour clause (arbejdsklausul) compliance and documentation

State buyers must, and municipalities/regions may, require pay and conditions no less favourable than the most representative Danish collective agreement for the supplier and subcontractors, with documentation…
Tax, social-security and labour compliance certificates

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NemHandel e-invoicing (OIOUBL / Peppol BIS) to the buyer's EAN number

Invoices to Danish public authorities must be electronic via NemHandel, quoting the buyer's EAN location number; 99% of public-sector invoices are already received electronically and a new 2026 executive order extends…
Tax registration

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Statsautoriseret translatør og tolk

Danish translation of documents

Where the notice permits only Danish, documents in other languages (even insurance certificates) can be disregarded; buyers may accept or ask for translations.
Legal documents

—days

Bank or kautionsforsikringsselskab (surety insurer) issuing AB 18 garanti

AB 18 contractor security (sikkerhedsstillelse) — performance guarantee

No statutory bid bond; for works under AB 18 the contractor provides security of 15% of the contract sum until handover, 10% after, 2% from one year after handover, due within 8 working days of the contract.
Bid security

—1–2 weeks (estimate)

Accredited certification body (DANAK-accredited or equivalent EA-member accreditation)

ISO 9001 / 14001 / 45001 (and equivalents)

Quality, environmental and OHS management certificates buyers may ask for as evidence of technical capacity; equivalent certificates from other EU states and other evidence must be accepted.
Quality and management-system certifications

—3–6 months to certify…

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

Partners11 askTender Desk12 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

ETHICS (Mercell)↗RUT (virk.dk / at.dk)↗udbud.dk / TED↗virk.dk / buyer↗

Open tenders in Denmark

Bidding in Denmark?

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

Rules we follow in Denmark

Advokat (member of Advokatsamfundet; udbudsret specialists). Danish lawyers are bound by the Advokatetiske regler (independence, no sharing of fees with non-lawyers); askTender should pay/route lawyer fees transparently and never take a cut of a lawyer's fee. Exact rule wording not re-read for this file.
Statsautoriseret / registreret revisor (godkendt revisor). A revisor giving an erklæring med sikkerhed must be independent of the client for that engagement; their statement is in their own name and cannot be prepared by askTender.
Tilbudsskriver / udbudskonsulent (unregulated). Not a regulated profession; cannot sign the bid or the ESPD for the bidder unless the bidder has given a written fuldmagt, and should not act for two competing bidders in the same procedure.
Statsautoriseret translatør og tolk. Regulator/authorisation details for statsautoriserede translatører were not re-verified for this file; the need for translation comes from the notice language rules.
Notarius publicus (at the district courts, byretterne). A court service, not a private profession; the signatory appears in person.
Bank or kautionsforsikringsselskab (surety insurer) issuing AB 18…. Issued in the bidder's name on the bidder's own credit; askTender can prepare the application pack but not apply as the obligor.
Accredited certification body (DANAK-accredited or equivalent…. Independence rules stop a certification body from also consulting on the same system.

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Sources advokatsamfundet.dk · dst.dk · mercell.atlassian.net · retsinformation.dk · um.dk · erhvervsstyrelsen.dk · virk.dk · businessindenmark.virk.dk · nemhandel.dk