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Member of the Profession
Under the procurement legislation, a sworn financial adviser or an independent accountant and financial adviser.
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Catering with Materials Calculation Schedule (Annex H.4)
The schedule setting out the ratios of principal inputs, labour and ancillary costs, which tenderers whose tenders are found abnormally low in catering service procurement tenders including materials are required to submit.
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Cost or Sale Price Determination Record (Annex 0.7)
A document drawn up, where the prices of goods produced, purchased or sold by the tenderer itself are used in respect of the cost components making up the tender, by the member of the profession who has concluded a full certification agreement with the tenderer or who is authorised to sign its returns, in respect of the goods subject to the tender, and which may be used in abnormally low tender…
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Cost or Sale Price Determination Record (Annex 0.5 / 0.6)
A record drawn up, where a price quotation is obtained from third parties in respect of the cost components making up the tender, by the member of the profession who has concluded a full certification agreement with the person giving the price quotation or who is authorised to sign their returns, in support of the price quotation for the goods or service subject to the tender.
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Financial Tender
In advisory service procurement tenders, the tender consisting of the tender letter containing the price offered for the advisory service subject to the tender, together with the bid bond.
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Goods Procurement
All supplies and movable and immovable property and rights purchased with public resources, through tenders held under Law No. 4734 and by way of exempt or direct procurement.
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Location Schedule
A list, based on preliminary, final or implementation projects, showing the names of the manufacturing items forming part of the work and the places where they are to be carried out, and forming the basis for preparing the estimated cost.
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Laboratory Inspection Report
The document in which it is determined, as a result of the laboratory analysis carried out, whether the sample conforms to the tender documents. Laboratory inspections are carried out in the contracting authority's own laboratories where available, otherwise in laboratories belonging to other public institutions and, failing that, in private laboratories. The tender documents must specify by whom…
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Laboratory Inspection
In goods procurements, the analysis in a laboratory of chemical, bacteriological and similar characteristics set out in the technical specifications that cannot be established by physical inspection. Goods whose physical inspection is not satisfactory may not proceed to laboratory inspection.
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Coordinating Member
In consortia, the member fully authorised to represent the joint venture in all matters.
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The Board (Public Procurement Board)
The Public Procurement Board, composed of persons specialised in the field, which acts in accordance with Article 53 of Law No. 4734 and determines appeals relating to tenders on behalf of the Public Procurement Authority.
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The Authority
The Public Procurement Authority, established to carry out the duties conferred by Law No. 4734, having public legal personality and administrative and financial autonomy.
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Supervision Body
A person or commission appointed by the contracting authority to supervise the works, or a real or legal person or persons appointed from outside the authority to carry out those duties. All works subject to a contract are carried out by the contractor under the supervision of the supervision body appointed by the contracting authority. The contractor carries out all works in accordance with the…
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Consortium
A partnership formed by more than one real or legal person in order to participate in a tender and conclude a contract within their respective fields of specialisation.
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Leasing Tenders (Tenders for Public Immovable Property)
The leasing, for a period not exceeding ten years, of assets held by contracting authorities within the scope of State Procurement Law No. 2886, such as land, business premises, buildings and construction machinery, by way of a tender held in accordance with the provisions of that Law.
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Partial Acceptance
The acceptance procedure carried out for those parts of the contract that have been completed and are capable of independent use, provided that this is specified in the tender documents.
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Short List
The list of those invited to submit a tender, in which a limited number of candidates are ranked following the pre-qualification assessment, within the number determined by the contracting authority in the pre-qualification notice and documents, being not fewer than three and not more than ten.
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Performance Bond
The security taken from the contractor at the stage of signing the contract, in order to secure performance of the undertaking in accordance with the contract and the annexed documents. It is taken from the tenderer to whom the tender is awarded at a rate of 6% calculated on the tender price. In service and works tenders, where the tender of the successful tenderer falls below the threshold…
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Final Project
A project prepared in accordance with the approved preliminary project for a given structure, for which such land and ground investigations as are possible have been carried out, in which the structural elements are measured and dimensioned and the construction systems and materials and their technical characteristics are specified.
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Final Acceptance
The acceptance procedure carried out, on the date determined for final acceptance and upon the written request of the contractor, by a final acceptance commission formed by the contracting authority, in accordance with the provisions of the General Specifications for Works and the procedures applicable to provisional acceptance.