‘Negotiation’ came to the fore in public tenders

This Public tenders held in the first half of the year increased by 3 times and negotiated tenders increased by 7 times compared to the same period last year. CHP Bolu Deputy Türker Ateş pointed out that according to data from the Public Procurement Monitoring Report prepared for the first six months of 2023, the proportion of negotiated tenders in the total tenders is 50 percent. Ateş stated: “A very serious public resource is being transferred to some companies in an uncontrolled and non-competitive manner.” Ateş said: “The total amount of public tenders, which was 230 billion TL in the first half of last year, increased to 892 billion TL, and the price of negotiated tenders, which was 48 billion of TL, increased to 397 billion TL. “Transparency must be guaranteed in these tenders,” he said.

PALACE TENDER INCREASED 23 TIMES

Ateş stated that the increase in presidential tenders must be disclosed to the public: “The increase in bidding expenses of the Presidency, which was from 45 million TL last year, to 1 billion 80 million TL this year, raises questions . “The incredible increase of 2,261 percent definitely needs an explanation.”

“Tenders should not become rentals”

The largest proportional increase in tenders was experienced in the Ministry of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change due to the earthquake. While the expenditure made in the January-June period last year was 1.2 billion TL, this figure multiplied by 58 this year and exceeded 76 billion TL. In the same period, the Ministry of Health’s tenders increased from 15 billion TL to 85 billion TL, an increase of 450 percent. Türker Ateş said: “These high expenses incurred to heal the earthquake wounds must be prevented from becoming someone’s profit.”