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Supervision, Inspection and Acceptance Procedures in Goods Procurement
The body of administrative procedures by which the goods delivered by the contractor under a public procurement contract are examined and assessed by the inspection and acceptance commission formed by the contracting authority as to whether they conform to the tender documents, the technical specifications and the terms of the contract, and, where found to conform, are taken into delivery. The…
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Controlled Defence Industry Material
Weapons, ammunition, and war vehicles and equipment, together with their parts, accessories, equipment and related technologies, whose production, importation, exportation, sale, transfer or use is subject to the permission and supervision of the Ministry of National Defence because of their strategic importance for national security and defence requirements. Such material is determined within…
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Property of the Tenderer
In public tenders, the machinery, plant, equipment, vehicles or similar technical assets that the tenderer declares it will use in performing the work subject to the tender and that are in its ownership, or acquired by lease and actually in its use. The concept is significant in particular where the tender documents require particular machinery or equipment to be the property of the tenderer as a…
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Insurance of the Work and the Site (Works)
In works, the insurance of the work and the site denotes the contractor's obligation to insure, against the risks specified in the contract, the manufacture carried out at the site during the performance of the contract, the machinery and equipment used, the structural elements and loss that may be caused to third parties. Under that obligation the contractor must cover by insurance loss that may…
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Insurance of the Work and the Site (Goods and Services)
In goods and service procurements, the insurance of the work and the site denotes the contractor's obligation under public procurement contracts to take out the necessary insurance against risks that may arise during the performance of the contract in respect of the conduct of the work, the site, equipment, materials and loss caused to third parties. Such insurance is intended to cover risks such…
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Labour Cost Calculation Module
The electronic system created and published by the Public Procurement Authority that enables labour costs to be calculated.
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Labour Costs
Labour costs are the cost item consisting of the wages, insurance premiums, taxes and social benefits payable to the workers employed in a public procurement.
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Labour Component
The labour component denotes the part of the estimated cost in a public procurement that consists of labour costs.
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Steps to Be Taken Against the Cancellation of a Tender
The administrative and judicial remedies available to candidates or tenderers against a decision to cancel a tender taken by the contracting authority during the tender process. Where the cancellation decision is unlawful, candidates or tenderers commence the process of having that decision reviewed by way of an administrative application or judicial proceedings.
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Debarment from Tenders (Law No. 2886)
Debarment from tenders under Law No. 2886 is the administrative sanction by which real or legal persons engaging in deceitful or unlawful conduct in tenders held under the State Procurement Law are prohibited, for a specified period or indefinitely, from participating in the tenders of public authorities, under Articles 83 to 85 of that Law.
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Irregularity Through the Incorrect Determination of the Tender Procedure
Irregularity through the incorrect determination of the tender procedure is the restriction of competition, the steering of the tender process or the conferring of an advantage on particular tenderers by choosing a different procedure, most often the negotiated procedure or a procedure without notice, instead of the procedure that should be applied for the work subject to the tender, although the…
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Grounds for Cancelling a Tender
There are various grounds for cancelling a tender: cancellations falling within the discretion of the contracting authority holding the tender, grounds arising from the legislation on which the authority is obliged to cancel, and force majeure. Cancellations within the authority's discretion must be supported by concrete grounds set out in due form and must comply with the fundamental principles…
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Provisional Acceptance Deduction
The amount deducted at a particular rate from the contractor's progress payments and blocked by the contracting authority, or taken in the form of a letter of guarantee, in works contracts, in order to secure the remedying of deficiencies that may arise at the provisional acceptance of the work. This deduction is a security mechanism for ensuring that incomplete manufacture or defects arising at…
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Overtime Pay (Service Procurements)
The type of pay, calculated at an increased rate of the normal hourly wage, that must be paid to workers employed in service procurement tenders based on the employment of personnel for work in excess of the statutory weekly working period of forty-five hours. The pay for each hour of overtime is made by increasing the hourly amount of the normal wage by fifty per cent. In public procurement…
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EKAP Terms of Use
A digital authorisation agreement, approved with an electronic signature, showing that the public administrations and the real or legal persons who will use the Electronic Public Procurement Platform accept the procedures and principles governing the transactions to be carried out on it. By this protocol the user accepts the conditions of use of the system, assumes the legal consequences of the…
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EKAP Signature Authority (Company)
The person authorised on behalf of a real or legal person to carry out its procedures on the Electronic Public Procurement Platform and who approves the procedures carried out on the platform with a secure electronic signature. That person may be one of the persons authorised to represent and bind the company, or a user authorised by them through EKAP. The principal duties of the registered…
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EKAP Signature Authority (Contracting Authority)
The authorised public official who approves with a secure electronic signature the tender and contract procedures carried out on the Electronic Public Procurement Platform on behalf of a public administration, and who assigns user authorisations on the platform. That person is responsible for acting on EKAP on behalf of the authority and for ensuring the legal validity of the procedures on the…
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Travel Provided in Kind
The provision of a shuttle or transport facility to personnel employed under the tender instead of a cash payment.
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Meals Provided in Kind (Service Procurements)
A form of social benefit provided in service procurements based on the employment of personnel by giving meals to personnel instead of cash.
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Assessment of the Explanation Given in an Abnormally Low Tender Inquiry
The process by which the explanations obtained from tenderers in respect of tenders found abnormally low are examined by the tender commission for compliance with the legislation, accuracy and adequacy, as regards the cost components making up the tender price and the documents submitted. Following that assessment, the commission either finds the explanations adequate and treats the tender as…