Can Foreign Companies Enter the Turkish Public Procurement Market? (2)
In the second piece of this article series, I will discuss the extent of Turkish public procurement markets openness to foreign competition. According to the official statistics of the PPA, the total value of public procurement conducted through tenders within the scope of the PPL was 128.2 billion TL(approximately 41 billion USD) in year 2015. The rest of the 140 billion TL (approximately 45 billion USD) mentioned yesterday is composed of procurement according to exemption clauses of the PPL and direct procurement clauses of the PPL, for which there is not much data available to conduct analyses in this regard. Of the 128.2 billion TL total, 30,5% in terms of contract value (39,2 billion TL) was below thresholds , and 69,5% (89 billion TL) was above thresholds . In terms of the number of tenders, 88,4% (82.078) were below thresholds and 10.795 (11,6%) were above thresholds. This means that contracting entities had the discretion to close the tender to foreign competition only at 30,5...