Procurement Process in Turkey

The basic principles of a tender are transparency; competition; equal treatment; reliability; conidentiality; public supervision and eicient use of resources; and no consolidation of purchase of goods, services and construction works in the same procurement (unless there is an acceptable natural connection).

Procurements may be held via the open method tender, restricted method tender or bargaining method tender. Open method and restricted method tenders are most commonly used methods. Open method tender is a procedure where all bidders may submit their bids, whereas the restricted method tender is a procedure in which only bidders who are invited by the contracting administration following the pre-qualiication stage may submit their bids. The restricted method tender is more common where goods, services or work to be procured requires a certain experience and/or speciality or consists of the procurement of a high technology (such as national defence procurement).

Tenders are prepared by the contracting administration by calculating the estimated cost, preparing administrative and technical speciications and determining the procurement method and rules of qualiication. Following this, the tender procedure is approved, the tender commission is established, and inally the tender is announced. Tender announcement includes important information such as (i) name and characteristics, (ii) rules of participation, (iii) indication of whether the tender is limited only to domestic bidders (and whether there is a price advantage for the same), and (iv) the place, date and hour of the oicial bidding deadline and tender. Tender announcement periods change depending on the method of procurement.

All documents including the ofer letter and the bid bond (not being less than 3% of the ofered price) shall be placed in an envelope and submitted to the relevant administration. Documents submitted after the deadline shall not be accepted. Ofers are evaluated by the tender commission. Upon evaluation, the successful bidder is notiied and will be entitled to enter into a contract on the condition that a performance bond in the amount of 6% of the tender price is provided within 10 days following such notiication.