Turkey’s Public Procurement Authority’s Recent Announcement on Procurement Applications in Corona Times

Since the due dates for declaring corporate tax returns and payments extended until June 1, 2020 by the Treasury and Finance Ministry Revenue Administration, due to COVID-19 precautionary measures, the Public Procurement Authority (“PPA”) has stated that in case applicants cannot provide their certificates of competency, balance sheets, business turnover and other relevant documents issued for last year as required to apply for tenders by the applicable rules, applicants are allowed to file the said documents issued for two years ago. PPA also stated its statement applies to tenders with due date June 1, 2020 or before; if the abovementioned documents issued for last year cannot be provided to the relevant administrative body.

Author: Sinan Erkan