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Responses to the Technical Specifications
The document, including responses and explanations relating to the technical specifications, that the contracting authority may request from tenderers in order to establish that the product offered conforms to the technical criteria set out in the technical specifications.
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Technical Specifications
Part of the tender documents, the specifications setting out the technical criteria for the work subject to the procurement.
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Technical Tender
In advisory service procurement tenders, the tender consisting of the documents required in the tender documents for the technical evaluation.
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Technical Personnel
The engineers, specialists and other persons notified by the contractor to the contracting authority and, once approved, required to be kept on site in accordance with the work programme, in the numbers and with the titles specified in the contract. Their names and documents, comprising the diploma, the professional chamber registration certificate and the undertaking obtained from a notary, are…
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Technical Documentation
The projects, calculations and similar technical information and documents provided to the contractor by the contracting authority under the contract, together with the projects and similar technical information and documents submitted by the contractor and approved by the authority.
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Tender Envelope
In conventional tenders held in person, the envelope containing all the documents required as a condition of participation in the tender, including the tender letter and the bid bond. Tender envelopes are not used in electronic tenders.
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Tender Letter
A document submitted in writing and signed, containing the price offered by the tenderer and the other information required by the legislation, prepared on the basis of the standard forms annexed to the relevant implementing regulations.
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Tender Validity Period
The date, determined by the contracting authority, until which tenders submitted remain valid from the date of the tender. Tenderers remain bound by their tenders throughout the tender validity period. Contracting authorities must therefore calculate the period having regard to the estimated time for evaluation, the periods for applications, and the time until the tender is concluded and the…
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Tender
The price offer and the documents and information forming the basis of the evaluation, submitted by tenderers in tenders held under Public Procurement Law No. 4734 and State Procurement Law No. 2886.
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Supplier
Real or legal persons, or joint ventures formed by them, that submit a tender in a goods procurement tender.
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Group of Companies
The group formed by a controlling company with the companies directly or indirectly affiliated to it.
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Complaint
The application made to the contracting authority through EKAP by candidates, tenderers and prospective tenderers, in accordance with the principles, procedure and time limits laid down in the legislation, where they identify unlawfulness in the tender process.
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Site Daily Log
The site daily log is kept daily once the site has been handed over and work has commenced under a works contract. It is signed by the construction supervision officers and the contractor. It records the weather, the hours worked, the progress of the work, matters impeding it, the quantity of work performed, installations and preparatory materials, the types and quantities of materials consumed…
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Turkish Code of Obligations No. 6098
The Turkish Code of Obligations No. 6098 lays down the provisions with which contracting authorities and contractors must comply in respect of matters not covered by Public Procurement Contracts Law No. 4735.
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Public Procurement Contracts Law No. 4735
The law laying down the principles and procedures for drawing up and performing contracts relating to tenders held under Public Procurement Law No. 4734. Procedures such as inspection and acceptance, the issue of progress payment certificates, increases and reductions in the scope of work and the payment of price differences are carried out under this Law.
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Public Procurement Law No. 4734
The law laying down the principles and procedures applicable to tenders held by public institutions and organisations using public resources for the procurement of goods, services, works and advisory services. Procurement is carried out under three tender procedures. The secondary legislation of the Law is issued by the Public Procurement Authority.
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State Procurement Law No. 2886
A law governing the conduct of tenders for sale, lease, exchange and the creation of rights in rem other than ownership by departments within the general budget, annexed budget administrations, special provincial administrations and municipalities. Tender notices are published in the Official Gazette, in national and local newspapers and on the websites of official institutions.
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Service Procurements of a Continuous Nature
Service procurements that need to be repeated at particular intervals, such as catering, cleaning and security.
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Table of Documents Not to Be Submitted
A table prepared by the contracting authority on the basis of the tender documents, with a separate line for each document, among those required to be submitted in the application or tender envelope for participation in the tender including non-price criteria, that can be verified through EKAP or the websites of other public institutions and organisations or professional bodies having the status…
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Stock Determination Record (Annex 0.8)
The document that must be submitted in respect of goods held in stock where, in the abnormally low tender explanations made by tenderers, it is stated that the goods were held in stock as at the date of the tender.