Ship's tender

The amount put out to tender will be up to €200 million

Tenders for essential supplies needed by the state and the organizations it controls often seem designed to fail.

There are no excuses, however, for these lucrative contracts not be put up for tender in a way that is efficient and transparent - particularly when they relate to consumables that are used in the daily business of serving citizens. 

National Economy and Finance Minister Kostis Hatzidakis has put in place a plan for the creation of small holding companies of public interest that will be endowed with appropriately selected properties from the portfolio of the Hellenic Public Properties Company (ETAD) and will then go out to sales tenders.

Greek and European authorities are investigating the possible extensive rigging of tenders in digital upgrading projects, mainly of the state, which are financed by the Recovery and Resilience Fund.

In the next few weeks, probably within February, a new announcement will be issued for the sale of Skaramangas Shipyards, both by the company's administrator and the Hellenic Public Properties Company (ETAD).

The two tenders that will run in parallel follow the previous, inconclusive process whose failure is attributed to ETAD's "maximalistic" original approach to the asking price.

A new tender has been held to select a company to carry out additional work to rehabilitate Kurbağalıdere, one of the central creeks in Istanbul's Kadıköy district on the Asian side.

Some 250 million Turkish Liras (around $39 million) have been spent over the past eight years to clean the highly polluted creek.

Dragan Stevanovic, state secretary at the ministry, told this to Tanjug on Thursday.

Five companies will compete in Turkey's first Turkish lira-based natural gas tender, according to officials from the Energy Market Regulatory Authority (EPDK). 

One of the world's most important economists, maybe the number one economist, Prof. Daron Acemo?lu, was in Turkey last week. Hülya Güler from daily Hürriyet interviewed him and he expressed warnings about economic aspects he found risky. 

One of the aspects he found risky was the relationship between politicians and those who are involved in state tenders.  

Do?an Holding Deputy President of Corporate Communications Ahter Kutadgu has said the group will open a lawsuit against Petrol-?? President Ali Ufuk Ya?ar for his "baseless" accusations over Petrol Ofisi's acquisition process. 

Ya?ar has claimed the privatization process of Petrol Ofisi was not transparent.