askTender Partners · Sweden

Tender work in Sweden. Signed by you.

Companies bidding on Sweden’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

8Services for Partners

13Done by the askTender Desk

27Steps mapped in Sweden

How filing works in Sweden

You work on the portal under your own login. In Sweden, the client adds you as a named user on its account on Mercell and TendSign: 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 Sweden

Sveriges advokatsamfund

Advokat (member of Sveriges advokatsamfund) or upphandlingsjurist

Review LOU compliance, ESPD answers, arbetsrättsliga villkor and contract terms; Draft fullmakter and consortium/support agreements (åberopa annans kapacitet); File an application for review (överprövning) at the förvaltningsrätt

1 service on the DeskLawyers

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Revisorsinspektionen

Auktoriserad/godkänd revisor or auktoriserad redovisningskonsult

Act as the company's ombud in Skatteverket e-services and fetch the SKV 4820 information form; Issue a revisor statement on turnover/equity where a tender asks for audited figures; Handle F-skatt, VAT and employer registration for a foreign winner

4 services on the DeskAccountants

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Bid writers

Anbudsskribent / anbudskonsult (unregulated)

Draft the anbud and ESPD in TendSign, Mercell or e-Avrop as a named user of the bidder's organisation account; Manage the Q&A, deadlines and document checklist

Called in when a tender asksBid writers

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Kammarkollegiet (authorises translators)

Auktoriserad translator

Certified translation of foreign certificates and financial statements where the buyer requires Swedish

1 service on the DeskTranslators

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Länsstyrelsen

Notarius publicus (appointed by the länsstyrelse)

Certify signatures on fullmakter and declarations; issue apostilles on Swedish documents

Called in when a tender asksNotaries

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Finansinspektionen

Bank or surety insurer (bankgaranti / försäkringsgaranti)

Issue performance guarantees (fullgörandegaranti) and advance-payment guarantees under AB 04/ABT 06 or service contracts

1 service on the DeskBanks and sureties

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Swedac

Accredited certification body (Swedac-accredited or other EA member)

Certify ISO 9001/14001/45001/27001 management systems

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 Sveriges advokatsamfund) or upphandlingsjurist

Application for review (överprövning) at the förvaltningsrätt

Challenge filed before the standstill ends (10 days electronic / 15 otherwise); extends the standstill until the court decides.
Filing on the portal

No court fee10/15-day window

Auktoriserad/godkänd revisor or auktoriserad redovisningskonsult

Skatteverket SKV 4820 'Begäran/Svar offentliga uppgifter' (tax and debt information)

Skatteverket's form showing F-skatt, VAT and employer registration, employer contributions and debts at Kronofogden — the standard Swedish evidence that no tax/social-contribution exclusion ground applies.
Accountant-attested financial certificates

—Digital version…

F-skatt approval (Swedish business-tax approval)

Approval that the supplier pays its own preliminary tax; without it the buyer must withhold tax from payments for work physically performed in Sweden. Skatteverket recommends buyers require it.
Tax registration

Free

VAT and employer registration

VAT registration for VAT-liable sales in Sweden and employer registration if staff are employed in Sweden.
Tax registration

Free

Peppol e-invoicing to public buyers

Invoices from LOU/LUF/LUK/LUFS procurements must be electronic in the European standard format (lag 2018:1277, since 1 April 2019); enforcement can be backed by a fine.
Tax registration

—days

Auktoriserad translator

Translation into Swedish

Bids can be in any official EU language unless the documents say otherwise; many tenders require Swedish.
Legal documents

—days

Bank or surety insurer (bankgaranti / försäkringsgaranti)

Performance guarantee / säkerhet (AB 04, ABT 06)

No statutory bid bond; works contracts under AB 04/ABT 06 commonly require the contractor to provide security (bank or insurance guarantee) until the end of the guarantee period.
Bid security

—1–2 weeks (estimate)

Accredited certification body (Swedac-accredited or other EA member)

ISO 9001 / 14001 / 45001 or equivalent quality & environmental systems

Quality and environmental management certificates or equivalent documented systems often required as qualification criteria.
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

Partners8 askTender Desk13 The bidding company itself6

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

Mercell Sourcing Core / TendSign↗Registered advertising databases (e-Avrop, KommersAnnons,…↗Skatteverket Mina sidor↗

Open tenders in Sweden

Bidding in Sweden?

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

Rules we follow in Sweden

Advokat (member of Sveriges advokatsamfund) or upphandlingsjurist. Advokater are bound by Advokatsamfundet's code (independence, conflicts, restrictions on sharing fees with non-lawyers); regulator rules not re-read for this file.
Auktoriserad/godkänd revisor or auktoriserad redovisningskonsult. Revisor statements are given in the revisor's own name and subject to independence rules.
Anbudsskribent / anbudskonsult (unregulated). Cannot sign as the bidder unless a fullmakt from the firmatecknare names them; one bidder per procurement to avoid conflicts.
Auktoriserad translator. Regulator details not re-read for this file.
Notarius publicus (appointed by the länsstyrelse). Details not re-read for this file.
Bank or surety insurer (bankgaranti / försäkringsgaranti). Issued on the bidder's own credit.
Accredited certification body (Swedac-accredited or other EA member). Cannot consult on the system it certifies.

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