Glossary
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Local Procurement
Local procurement means that all administrations to which appropriations are transferred procure their own requirements from the locality where they are situated. It rests on the principle that administrations attached to the same ministry meet themselves those requirements of every kind that cannot be met by central procurement and in which their discretion comes to the fore. Examples include an…
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Principle of Universal Succession
The principle of universal succession denotes, in public procurement and particularly in mergers or acquisitions, the passing by operation of law and automatically to the acquiring or newly formed company of the rights, debts, work experience certificates, balance sheet and turnover figures of the company that comes to an end without liquidation. It is an important principle of procurement law…
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Colloquium
A colloquium is the academic meeting at which the results of the organisation held for the selection, by a jury open to multiple participation, 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 are discussed. In design competitions…
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Partial Tender
A partial tender is a tender submitted for one or more of the parts of a tender where the tender documents permit tenders to be submitted for parts. Where partial tenders are permitted, the parts and the qualification criteria applicable to each are specified in the tender documents, and the evaluation and award are carried out separately for each part.
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Final Account (Service Procurements)
In service procurements, the final account consists of the accounting procedures that establish definitively whether the parties owe anything to one another, once the acceptance procedures for the service subject to the contract have been completed or the contract has been terminated or liquidated. It differs from the interim progress payments made during the service in that those payments do not…
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Dissolution
In public procurement, dissolution denotes the coming to an end of a company upon the occurrence of a statutory or contractual cause. Where liquidation is involved, it may result in exclusion from the tender under Article 10 of Law No. 4734; in cases such as merger or division without liquidation, it requires legal succession to be clearly documented in order for previous qualification documents…
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Participation in a Tender (Participation by Persons Employed as Workers)
Participation in a tender by persons employed as workers is where a real person working under an employment contract in a public institution or a private workplace submits a tender in their own name as a tenderer in a tender under Public Procurement Law No. 4734. Article 10 of that Law provides that documents relating to economic and financial standing and professional and technical capacity may…
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The Decision Session of the Tender Commission (Second Session)
The decision session, or second session, is held after the first session at which the tenders were opened and the basic formal checks carried out. It is the stage at which the tender commission convenes in full, examines and assesses the tenders in closed session, and formulates its reasoned decision on the outcome of the tender. In that session, tenderers whose documents were found incomplete in…
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The First Session of the Tender Commission
The first session is the initial, public stage at which the commission opens the tenders at the tender hour stated in the tender notice and the administrative specifications. In that session the number of tenders submitted is first recorded and announced to those present; the tender envelopes are then examined in the order of receipt, and envelopes not conforming to the legislation are recorded…
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Procurement Training (Training Tailored to Firms)
Procurement training tailored to firms is training that enables firms participating in tenders to assess legal and technical risks more soundly during the period from the tender notice until the contract is signed and the performance bond is returned. Such training is structured not to a uniform template but having regard to the types of tender in which the firm participates, its tender…
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Inconsistency with the Ordinary Course of Events
In public procurement and contracts, inconsistency with the ordinary course of events denotes irregularities and departures from general practice, such as the relationship between tender prices, unusual features in the estimated cost, an abnormally low tender explanation being inexplicable by reference to market prices, discrepancies between the work programme and the delivery period, and the…
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Bid Bond
The bid bond is the amount taken by contracting authorities as a guarantee of participation in a tender, serving to secure the tenderer's adherence to its tender, its willingness to sign the contract and the reliability of the tender process, and whose amount, form, period, return and forfeiture are governed by Law No. 4734 and the secondary legislation. Under the procurement legislation…
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Corruption
Corruption is the commission of irregularity by abusing an office or a power. In public procurement and contracts, corruption means the use by public officials, during the tender and contract process, of the powers conferred on them in a manner contrary to the law, to ethics or to due procedure, for their personal benefit or in order to confer an advantage on others.
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Software Authorisation Certificate
The software authorisation certificate is a sectoral authorisation document showing that, in procurements by public authorities of software development, software integration or software maintenance services, the tenderer is able to conduct its software processes in accordance with defined standards in terms of information security and software process maturity. It is not a classic quality…
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Investor
An investor is a real or legal person that will invest in Treasury immovable property.
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Works Contractor Authorisation Certificate Number
The works contractor authorisation certificate number is the registration or authorisation number showing that, in works for which a building permit must be obtained, the tenderer is registered and active in the information system for works contractors in respect of its contracting activity. It shows that real or legal persons that will undertake works contracting in works subject to a building…
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International Conformity Certificates
International conformity certificates are documents showing that a product, service, system, laboratory result or production process conforms to international standards, technical regulations or safety criteria. They may take the form of a product certification document, a management system certificate, a test report, an inspection report, a calibration certificate or a conformity marking such as…
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TSEK Certificate (Certificate of Conformity with Criteria)
The TSEK certificate denotes the certification of conformity with the technical criteria determined by the Turkish Standards Institution, where there is no directly applicable Turkish Standard for the product concerned. In that respect it provides a minimum technical safety and quality reference for products for which there is no Turkish Standard or whose standardisation process has not been…
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TSE Certificate (Certificate of Conformity with Turkish Standards)
The TSE certificate is a product certification document showing that conformity of a product with the relevant Turkish Standard, or with a criterion determined by the Turkish Standards Institution, has been verified. It establishes that the product has been manufactured in accordance with defined technical, safety, performance and quality criteria. In public procurement it may be required in…
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TS Conformity Certificates
TS conformity certificates are conformity certificates showing that a product has been manufactured in accordance with a particular Turkish Standard and meets the technical, safety, durability or performance requirements of that standard. They express not merely that the product is commercially available on the market, but that it has undergone conformity assessment against defined technical…