askTender Partners · French Polynesia

Tender work in French Polynesia. Signed by you.

Companies bidding on French Polynesia’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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10Services for Partners

13Done by the askTender Desk

25Steps mapped in French Polynesia

How filing works in French Polynesia

You work on the portal under your own login. In French Polynesia, the client adds you as a named user on its account on Te Ariari: 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 French Polynesia

Ordre des experts-comptables competent for French Polynesia

Expert-comptable (practising in French Polynesia)

Prepares the turnover statement and balance sheets (bilans) for the last three years used as financial-capacity evidence (CPMP A 233-1); Keeps the company current on DICP and CPS declarations and payments at 31 December, which the attestations certify;…

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Barreau de Papeete (not verified online)

Avocat (Barreau de Papeete) or home-country lawyer

Drafts the délégation de pouvoirs letting a non-director sign the candidature and offer; Advises on the interdictions de soumissionner (CPMP LP 233-1) and groupement agreements; Brings référé précontractuel or contractuel actions before the Tribunal…

1 service on the DeskLawyers

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Chambre des notaires de Polynésie française

Notaire (Polynésie française) / home-country notary

Authenticates signatures and powers of attorney where a buyer asks for a formal one (a simple délégation de pouvoirs on plain paper is normally enough); Certifies copies of foreign corporate documents

1 service on the DeskNotaries

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Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution

Bank or insurer giving a garantie à première demande or caution personnelle et solidaire

Replaces the retenue de garantie (max 5%) with a garantie à première demande or, if the buyer agrees, a caution personnelle et solidaire; Guarantees repayment of an advance (required above 30% of the base, allowed up to 60%)

2 services on the DeskBanks and sureties

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ACPR / Code des assurances as applicable in French Polynesia (not verified)

Insurer (assurance RC, RC Pro, décennale)

Issues the insurance certificates bidders give as proof of cover for professional risks: civil liability for all firms, décennale for works, RC Pro for regulated professions

2 services on the DeskCertification bodies

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Cour d'appel (list of judicial experts)

Traducteur assermenté (expert traducteur près une cour d'appel, e.g. Cour d'appel de…

Translates foreign corporate documents and certificates into French, since candidatures and offers are written in French

1 service on the DeskTranslators

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Bid writers

Consultant en réponse aux marchés publics

Fills the LC1/LC1bis, LC2, LC3, LC4, EC1 and EC2 forms and the mémoire technique for signature; Deposits the electronic pli on Te Ariari, or hands in the paper pli or the copie de sauvegarde, under the company's written mandate

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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.

Expert-comptable (practising in French Polynesia)

Capacities form (LC2) with financial and technical evidence (CPMP A 233-1 to A 233-4)

Financial evidence: turnover (global and for the contract's field) for up to 3 years, a bank statement or proof of professional-risk insurance, and balance sheets for 3 years. Technical evidence: references (supplies…
Accountant-attested financial certificates

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Tax regularity certificate from the DICP (attestation de régularité fiscale)

Certifies that the company's declarations and payments of IS, IT, TVA, CPS and CSTS were in order at 31 December of the previous year. The winning bidder must produce it within the buyer's deadline or its offer is…
Tax registration

Free (no fee shown)

15% withholding tax on payments to firms without a permanent establishment in PF

Under Code des impôts LP 197-1, payments to suppliers with no permanent installation in French Polynesia bear a 15% withholding tax (retenue à la source), which should be priced in.
Other

15% of gross amount

Avocat (Barreau de Papeete) or home-country lawyer

Groupement d'opérateurs économiques (joint and several or joint)

Joint bid using LC1bis. Each member must provide the exclusion, tax, social and authority evidence. In a joint-and-several groupement the lead (mandataire) gives the guarantee for the whole contract.
Legal documents

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Notaire (Polynésie française) / home-country notary

Apostille of foreign public documents

French Polynesia is part of the French Republic, which applies the Hague Apostille Convention. Foreign public documents from other parties are normally apostilled if a buyer wants authenticated originals.
Legal documents

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Bank or insurer giving a garantie à première demande or caution personnelle et solidaire

Retention money (retenue de garantie) or replacement first-demand guarantee

The contract may provide for a retention of up to 5% of the initial value incl. tax. The contractor may replace it with a garantie à première demande or, if the buyer does not object, a caution personnelle et solidaire.
Bid security

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Advance-payment guarantee (garantie à première demande)

An advance of 10% is mandatory for contracts over XPF 10 million incl. tax lasting over 2 months. A buyer may require a guarantee for advances up to 30%, and above 30% (up to 60%) a first-demand guarantee is compulsory.
Bid security

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Insurer (assurance RC, RC Pro, décennale)

Civil-liability insurance certificate (RC; RC Pro for regulated professions)

Proof of insurance for professional risks is one of the financial-capacity items. All firms must carry RC; regulated professions are asked for RC Pro.
Insurance

—a few days

Decennial insurance certificate (assurance garantie décennale)

Asked in works tenders.
Insurance

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Traducteur assermenté (expert traducteur près une cour d'appel, e.g. Cour d'appel de…

French-language bid and French translations of foreign documents

Consultation letters state that offers must be written in French, so foreign documents need translation into French.
Legal documents

—a few days

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

Partners10 askTender Desk13 The bidding company itself2

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

Company / lawyer↗DICP / DFiP / CPS / RCS↗Lexpol (lexpol.cloud.pf) / Te Ariari (teariari.gov.pf)↗Te Ariari (teariari.gov.pf)↗Te Ariari (teariari.gov.pf) or paper↗Te Ariari messaging↗Te Ariari messaging / Chorus Pro↗askTender / partners↗

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Rules we follow in French Polynesia

Expert-comptable (practising in French Polynesia). Acts under a client mandate. Employer e-service accounts (CPS) stay the client's unless the service offers a third-party role (not verified). Regulated professions need RC Pro insurance.
Avocat (Barreau de Papeete) or home-country lawyer. Professional rules prohibit fee-sharing with non-lawyers (French bar rules; not verified for Papeete).
Notaire (Polynésie française) / home-country notary. The client's representative must appear and sign.
Bank or insurer giving a garantie à première demande or caution…. Must be approved by the ACPR, or by its home regulator if foreign; the buyer may refuse the guarantor. Guarantees follow the model in CPMP annexes 8-9.
Traducteur assermenté (expert traducteur près une cour d'appel, e.g.…. Whether a buyer demands a sworn rather than a plain translation depends on the règlement de consultation (L).
Consultant en réponse aux marchés publics. The candidature and offer bind the company even when unsigned, so the consultant needs a written mandate. The acte d'engagement is signed by an authorised representative of the company.

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