Claim requests for public tenders will be made by electronic signature

The amendments to the regulation and the statement from the Public Procurement Authority, including the bid requests, were published in the Official Gazette.

In accordance with article 55 of the Public Procurement Law, the complaint request will be made from the day following that on which the bidder(s) and those who may be bidders had or should have been aware of the situations that gave rise to The complaint before the contract was duly signed, in accordance with article 21 (b) of the Law and the requests for offers submitted in accordance with subsections (c) are submitted to the contracting authority within 5 days, in other cases within 10 days.

With the modification made in the Announcement of Requests for Tenders, the aforementioned deadlines will begin to be counted from the day following the date of the first announcement published in the Public Procurement Bulletin for the request for announcements, and the day after the publication. of the rectification notice in the Public Procurement Bulletin, in the cases in which a correction announcement is made.

THE COMPLAINT WILL BE MADE WITH ELECTRONIC SIGNATURE

Requests for complaints and objections regarding the tenders will be made by electronic signature in EKAP, based on the provisions of the communication of complaints and objections to be submitted electronically.

Regarding the tenders announced or announced before the decision taken by the Public Procurement Board to determine the completion of the necessary technical infrastructure regarding electronic complaint requests and complaints is published on the official website of the Authority. electronic objections, the first paragraph of article 21 of the Law (a), (d) In accordance with subsections (e) and subsections, bidding requests made through negotiation and requests made through a lawyer will continue to be made by hand or by mail.

The requests for tenders announced or announced before April 15, 2023 will be finalized in accordance with the provisions of the call in force on the date of the call or announcement.

On the other hand, the “Regulation amending the Regulations for Tender Requests” was also published in the Official Gazette, which includes rules in line with the Communiqué.

PUBLICATION OF THE CONTRACT NOTICE

The “Communiqué Modifying the General Communiqué on Public Procurement” was also published in the Official Gazette and entered into force.

Consequently, in the cases in which the offer and the place where the work will be carried out are different for the offers to be announced in accordance with subsection (1) of the first paragraph of article 13 of the Public Procurement Law, one of the The announcements must be published in a newspaper or news site on the Internet in the place where the bidding will take place. It will be enough to make a total of two announcements, provided that the other is published in a newspaper or news site in the place where the bidding will take place. work, and the announcement has been made in a newspaper and Internet news site.

If there is no newspaper or Internet news site in the place where the tender will be held, the announcement will be published on the Press Advertising Agencies Announcement Portal within the same period.

The announcements to be made in the place where the tender and the work will be carried out will be made in the newspapers and Internet news sites determined by the Press Advertisement Agency. In this context, in the publication of announcements related to tenders with approximate costs below the threshold value, the administrations will investigate whether there are newspapers and Internet news sites whose names are mentioned in the current list of the Press Advertising Agency. , within the limits of the municipality where the bidding is carried out or the place where the work will be carried out.

If there is more than one newspaper or Internet news site of this nature, announcement, through the Press Publicity Institution or the Government, in the newspaper and Internet news site determined by these authorities, in the event that there is only one newspaper and internet news site of this nature within the municipality where the bidding is carried out or the place where the work will be carried out, it will be published in said newspaper and on the internet news site, again through the branch or of the governorate (AA)