Viran's coverage now extends to Türkiye, one of the largest public procurement markets on Europe's periphery.
Türkiye is not an EU member state and its public procurement runs under its own national law rather than the European directives. The procedure types will look broadly familiar to anyone who works with EU tendering, but the rules are genuinely distinct, and a supplier that assumes European practice carries over will get the details wrong.
One caveat is worth stating plainly, because the trade relationship invites an assumption that does not hold. The EU-Türkiye customs union covers industrial goods and processed agricultural products, not public procurement, and the proposals to widen it were never implemented. Türkiye is not a party to the WTO Government Procurement Agreement either. A European supplier bidding here does so without the reciprocal guarantees it has in Japan or South Korea, and domestic bidders can benefit from price preferences it cannot.
What makes the market worth covering anyway is proximity and industrial fit. Türkiye is closely integrated into European supply chains in construction, machinery, energy and transport equipment, and the logistics are far simpler than for the distant markets many suppliers pursue instead. Centralised state purchasing also concentrates significant volume in standing arrangements for supplies and equipment, which behave differently from one-off competitions.
Turkish public contracts now arrive in the same pipeline as domestic and EU tenders, assessed on the same terms as everything else.
