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- GLOSSARY4735Contract Disputes10 October 2025
Contract Procedures Carried Out Through EKAP
Procedures relating to contracts subject to Public Procurement Contracts Law No. 4735 are carried out through EKAP. These include drawing up or uploading the site handover record, notification and approval of technical personnel, work programme applications including revised programmes and their approval, subcontractor approvals and the uploading of the subcontract, project changes, approvals of…
- GLOSSARY4734Tender Process Disputes10 October 2025
Tender Procedures Carried Out Through EKAP
Tenders subject to Law No. 4734 and the related procedures, tenders held within the scope of an exemption, direct procurements, all tenders outside the scope of the Law and the related contracts are conducted through EKAP. Work experience certificates are issued through EKAP by the competent institutions and organisations. Work completion certificates relating to works undertaken abroad under a…
- GLOSSARY4734Tender Process Disputes10 October 2025
EKAP (Electronic Public Procurement Platform)
The electronic platform managed by the Public Procurement Authority through which contracting authorities and all actors in the public procurement process may carry out their tender procedures over the internet. The tender procedures, the contract concluded as a result of the tender and the contract process are carried out through EKAP.
- GLOSSARY4734Tender Process Disputes10 October 2025
Participation Document
The document prepared on EKAP by prospective tenderers in order to show that the participation and qualification criteria required in the tender are met, and for use in assessing any non-price criteria. The Implementing Regulation on the Electronic Conduct of Public Procurement, published in Official Gazette No. 32550 of 18 May 2024, governs the procedures and principles for carrying out through…
- GLOSSARY2886Public Real Estate10 October 2025
Treasury Immovable Property That May Not Be Leased
Immovable property allocated to public services and used for the purpose of that allocation, excluding commercial units within such property such as kiosks, canteens and tea rooms; immovable property within the scope of Shore Law No. 3621 whose lease is sought for purposes other than those specified in that Law; immovable property within the scope of the Law on the Protection of Cultural and…
- GLOSSARY2886Public Real Estate10 October 2025
Lease (Leasing of Public Immovable Property)
The allocation for temporary use by private and legal persons, within the scope of the legislation, of immovable property belonging to departments within the general budget, annexed budget administrations, special provincial administrations and municipalities. In the leasing of immovable property, the location, boundaries, area and, where applicable, the sheet, block and parcel numbers and the…
- GLOSSARY2886Public Real Estate10 October 2025
Treasury Immovable Property That May Not Be Sold
Immovable property in the private ownership of the Treasury that cannot be sold. These are immovable property under the authority and disposal of the State, places allocated to a public service, immovable property situated on the shore, forests and pastures, immovable property whose intended use under the development plan has the character of a public service, such as parks and green areas, and…
- GLOSSARY2886Public Real Estate10 October 2025
Treasury Immovable Property That May Be Sold
Immovable property in the private ownership of the Treasury that is not required for any public service and in respect of which there is no legal objection to a tender being held. Sales of Treasury immovable property are announced by publication on the national property administration website and in daily newspapers.
- GLOSSARY2886Public Real Estate10 October 2025
Sale (Sale of Public Immovable Property)
The transfer through the land registry, to private and legal persons and having regard to the interests of the State, of immovable property belonging to departments within the general budget, annexed budget administrations, special provincial administrations and municipalities. In such sales, the location, boundaries, area and, where applicable, the sheet, block and parcel numbers and the…
- GLOSSARY2886Public Real Estate10 October 2025
Exchange
A contract or agreement for the exchange of a right or property for another right or property. A tender for the exchange of immovable property is held under the negotiated procedure by virtue of subparagraph (g) of Article 51 of the Law, whatever the value and quantity. No performance bond is taken in exchange transactions and it is not compulsory to conclude a contract. Exchange transactions of…
- GLOSSARY4734Tender Process Disputes10 October 2025
Estimated Value (in Sale, Lease and Similar Tenders)
The value estimated for sale, lease, exchange and similar works before the tender. It is determined and decided by the valuation commission. In determining and assessing the value, the current market value is taken as the basis, having regard to the location and characteristics of the immovable property. Participants in sale, lease and similar tenders must submit tenders not lower than the…
- GLOSSARY2886Public Real Estate10 October 2025
Easement Right
An obligation created as a right in rem in favour of another immovable property or a person, comprising consent to the enjoyment and use of an immovable property or the relinquishment of the exercise of certain rights of ownership. The purpose of establishing easement rights and granting use permits over Treasury immovable property is to enable investment in agriculture, livestock and…
- GLOSSARY2886Public Real Estate10 October 2025
Unlawful Occupier
Real or legal persons who take, hold or in any manner use or have at their disposal the possession of public immovable property without the permission of the competent administration.
- GLOSSARY2886Public Real Estate10 October 2025
Occupation Compensation
Compensation arising from the occupation or use, without permission, of public immovable property by real or legal persons. Contracting authorities may claim compensation regardless of whether they have suffered loss or whether the occupier is at fault. The procedures and principles for occupation compensation and eviction in respect of immovable property in the private ownership of the Treasury…
- GLOSSARY4735Financial Disputes08 October 2025
Progress Payment Certificate
Documents issued within the first five working days of each month, with the statutory deductions made, within the framework of the principles laid down in the General Specifications for Works. Progress payment certificates are approved by the contracting authority within thirty days at the latest from the date on which they are signed by the contractor or its representative and submitted to the…
- GLOSSARY4734Tender Process Disputes08 October 2025
Days on Which the Weather Is Technically Unsuitable for Work
In works, the non-working days that must be taken into account in determining the periods for completing the work, within the scope of the relevant circular published by the Ministry of Environment, Urbanisation and Climate Change.
- GLOSSARY4735Contract Disputes08 October 2025
Handover of the Site to the Contractor (Works)
The recording of the place where the work subject to the contract is to be carried out by the signature of the site handover record by the parties. Where approval of the site handover record is required, handover takes place on the date on which the approval of the record is notified to the contractor.
- GLOSSARY4734Tender Process Disputes08 October 2025
Index
Under the General Specifications for Works, the index means the General Domestic Producer Price Index published by the Turkish Statistical Institute.
- GLOSSARY4734Tender Process Disputes08 October 2025
Sub-Index
Under the General Specifications for Works, the sub-index means, among the indices published monthly by the Turkish Statistical Institute, the relevant index by sub-sector in the historical series table of the Domestic Producer Price Index (2003=100) by CPA 2008 sections, divisions and groups, and in the table of selected CPA 2008 classes of that index; and, for labour rates, the General Consumer…
- GLOSSARY4734Tender Process Disputes06 October 2025
Internet Protocol Address
The name given to the distinct numbers used by devices connected to the internet in order to communicate with one another. Every device connected to the internet must have an IP address. Devices connected to the internet or to a computer network have addresses and identity numbers that they use to send data to one another over the network. It is not possible for more than one device to have the…