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- GLOSSARYTender Process Disputes16 July 2026
Procurement Unit or Department (Units Within Firms)
A procurement unit or department is the specialised internal unit established in firms participating in public tenders for following tender notices, examining tender documents, checking qualification documents, preparing tenders, EKAP procedures, security processes, application periods and monitoring the performance of the contract. It is the organisational structure within the tenderer's own…
- GLOSSARYTender Process Disputes08 June 2026
Qualification (Qualification Documents)
Qualification and qualification documents are the criteria of participation and evaluation required under Law No. 4734 and the implementing regulations, which must be clearly set out in the tender documents, in order to determine whether a candidate or tenderer is competent to participate in the tender and to carry out the work subject to it in accordance with the contract. The most important…
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Domestic Content Requirement (Service Procurements)
The list of domestic contribution rate declarations for motor vehicles published by the Ministry of Industry and Technology, formerly the list of automotive domestic content ratios, is an important list showing the domestic contribution rate of the vehicles offered, or to be used in carrying out the work, for the relevant model year, particularly in vehicle rental service procurement tenders. The…
- GLOSSARYTender Process Disputes08 June 2026
Spare Part (Equivalent Spare Part)
In public procurement, an equivalent spare part is a spare part that serves the same purpose of use as the original spare part produced by the manufacturer of the principal material, or as the original equivalent spare part used in that manufacturer's production chain, and that has been produced in conformity with the original or original equivalent part in terms of physical, chemical and…
- GLOSSARYTender Process Disputes08 June 2026
Spare Part (Original Equivalent Spare Part)
In public procurement, an original equivalent spare part is a spare part produced by a firm that manufactures spare parts for the manufacturer of the principal material, vehicle, machinery or system, under its own trade name and part number, having the same technological, physical and functional characteristics as the original spare part and also used in production by the manufacturer of the…
- GLOSSARYTender Process Disputes08 June 2026
Spare Part (Original Spare Part)
In public procurement, an original spare part is a spare part produced by, or produced on behalf of, the manufacturer of the principal material, vehicle, machinery, equipment or system specified in the tender documents; for whose production, quality control and testing the principal manufacturer is responsible; and which is packaged under its trade name and part number. It is therefore not merely…
- GLOSSARYTender Process Disputes08 June 2026
Competition
A competition is the organisation held for the selection by a jury of the idea, design, project, plan or work required for the realisation of a matter relating to architecture, landscape architecture, engineering, urban design projects, city and regional planning or works of fine art. Article 23 of Law No. 4734 provides that contracting authorities may hold competitions, with or without prizes…
- GLOSSARYTender Process Disputes08 June 2026
Standard Administrative Specifications
The standard administrative specifications are the standard document prepared by the Public Procurement Authority that contracting authorities must take as the basis when drawing up the administrative specifications for their own tenders. That document standardises and makes binding for authorities the tender procedure, the conditions of participation, the qualification documents, the preparation…
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Guidance Personnel Within the Scope of Access to Education Through Transport
Guidance personnel within the scope of that service are the personnel who, in the school service vehicle in which special education pupils and trainees in particular are transported, work other than as the driver, and who ensure that pupils and trainees board and alight safely, ensure safety in the vehicle, assist where necessary with their personal care needs, and report problems arising during…
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Pupil Requiring Special Education Within the Scope of Access to Education Through Transport
A pupil requiring special education within the scope of that service is a pupil who differs significantly from peers in individual and developmental characteristics and educational capacity, and who therefore requires additional measures such as special education, support education, an adapted educational environment, guidance, accessible transport or an accompanying person in order actually to…
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Access to Education Through Transport Service
Access to education through transport service is the public service by which primary and special education pupils at risk of being deprived of the right to education, together with special education trainees benefiting from non-formal education services, are transported daily to designated official transport centre schools or institutions. Under the legislation of the Ministry of National…
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Design Competitions
Design competitions are competitions of a special character organised by contracting authorities within the scope of Public Procurement Law No. 4734, open to multiple participation and based on the assessment of a jury, in order to obtain an idea, design, project, plan or work in the field of architecture, landscape architecture, engineering, urban design, city and regional planning or works of…
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Draft Contract
The draft contract is the preliminary text, at the tender stage, of the contract to be signed with the tenderer to whom the tender will be awarded, in tenders held under Public Procurement Law No. 4734. It is among the compulsory elements of the tender documents, together with the administrative specifications, the technical specifications and the other necessary documents and information…
- GLOSSARYTender Process Disputes08 June 2026
Pricing the Risks Arising from the Terms of the Contract
Pricing the risks arising from the terms of the contract is where a firm participating in a tender takes into account, in forming its tender price, not only the costs arising from the procurement legislation but also all the financial, technical and legal consequences imposed on it by the contracting authority in the tender documents, comprising the technical specifications, the project and the…
- GLOSSARYTender Process Disputes08 June 2026
Marketing Authorisation Certificate
The marketing authorisation certificate is a special permit showing that, for products whose placing on the market is subject to ministerial permission under specific legislation, such as veterinary medicinal products, vaccines, sera and immunological products, the product is permitted to be manufactured, imported, placed on the market, stored and administered within the framework of the…
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Share Ledger
The share ledger is the commercial book serving to establish the shareholders and shareholding ratios in capital companies participating in public tenders. In joint stock companies in particular it must be uploaded to EKAP and kept up to date, and it may affect the outcome of a tender in terms of authority to submit a tender, shareholding structure, debarment and the qualification assessment.
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Motor Vehicle Insurance Value List
The insurance value list is the Motor Land Vehicles Insurance Value List published by the Association of Insurance, Reinsurance and Pension Companies of Türkiye, showing the make, type, model year and comprehensive insurance value of the vehicles offered in vehicle rental service procurement tenders. It is the official reference list on which contracting authorities and tenderers base the…
- GLOSSARYTender Process Disputes08 June 2026
Central Registry System
The Central Registry System is the electronic source of trade registry data in the participation, qualification and tender evaluation process, serving to verify, consistently with EKAP, the identity, shareholding, management and representation information of legal person candidates or tenderers registered in the trade registry in public tenders. In electronic tenders, the shareholding structure…
- GLOSSARYTender Process Disputes08 June 2026
Central Procurement
Central procurement means the procurement of the common requirements of more than one administration from a single source. It covers the supply from a single source, or by designated units, of the goods and services requested by the public administrations listed in schedules (I), (II) and (III) annexed to the Public Financial Management and Control Law No. 5018, which make up the central…
- GLOSSARYTender Process Disputes08 June 2026
Medical Firm (Public Procurement and Contracts)
A medical firm operating under public procurement and contracts is a supplier or service provider undertaking that produces, imports, sells or distributes the medical devices, equipment, consumables and apparatus required for the diagnosis and treatment of patients in the hospitals or health institutions of contracting authorities within the scope of Law No. 4734. Medical firms wishing to supply…