Gürcafer: The only thing we want is the equality of opportunity

Cafer Gürcafer demanded the cancellation of the tender for building a hospital in Kyrenia: “We will not stop pursuing this issue!”

CTBCA President Cafer Gürcafer, demanded the cancellation of the tender for building a hospital in Kyrenia. Gürcafer, expressing that the tender should be re-issued after the regulations have been corrected, said, “We cannot afford to have 15m TL or 10m TL just placed into somebody’s pocket! We will not stop pursuing this issue.!’’

Cyprus Turkish Building Contractor Association (CTBCA) President Cafer Gürcafer attended by phone the programme called ‘’The Morning Post’’ which is broadcasted at Cyprus Mail TV, prepared and hosted by Gökhan Altıner.

While 15 of the 17 companies participating in the hospital tender planned to be built in Kyrenia were eliminated, and that the remaining 2 were claimed to be in an ‘alliance’, Gürcafer made a statement emphasizing the need to make corrections to the regulation, which is currently at the Ministry and ready to be implemented.

“Cancel the tender and re-issue it”

Gürcafer said, “This error should be reverted immediately” and explained, “There will be no variation to the beginning phase or the conclusion phase of the hospital. Let them fix the regulation with a two-hour operation. They should cancel the tender and re-issue it.”

Drawing attention to the fact that, in the country, such things have begun to occur during the last 5-6 years, CTBCA President Gürcafer stated that to the extend of preventing such circumstances, the regulations will have to be re-drawn and implemented.

“There will be a serious economic bill for this”

Criticizing the fact that 15 of the 17 companies were disqualified, Gürcafer said, “If the state does not correct this mistake, there will be a serious economic bill. If you calculate a 25 percent discount on a job worth 60m TL, it corresponds to 115m TL. I do not want to blame anyone… There is certain misinformation, I know. We will not stop pursuing this issue. The only thing we want is the equality of opportunity.’’

“We do not have a circumstance where we would let anyone pocket anything!”

Expressing that many contractors were wounded during the pandemic, Cafer Gürcafer, declared his reaction to this tender process and said, “While we are going through such times, we do not have the circumstance to let anyone pocket 15m TL or 10m TL or 1m TL! Here is an opportunity. We are in a phase where we need to use our resources well. This need to be fixed…”