Acts Constituting an Offence and Attracting Criminal Liability in Abnormally Low Tender Explanations, and Our Recommendations
12 February 2023

Tenderers are required to demonstrate, by means of the documents specified in the Public Procurement General Communiqué, that the tenders they have submitted are consistent with market conditions. However, in the explanations submitted by some tenderers, acts falling within the scope of the “prohibited acts and conduct” provisions of Public Procurement Law No. 4734 and acts treated as offences under the Turkish Criminal Code are observed to have been committed.