A lawmaker's company, which has no competitors, won a 16-million contract in Odesa

The municipal enterprise "City Roads" conducted a procurement process to select a company that will be paid to restore the road surface following emergency repairs to the heating networks in Odesa.

According to the Center for Public Investigations, the relevant announcement was published on the Prozorro e-procurement platform.

The procurement was conducted as an open tender with specific conditions, and the sole participant was the limited liability company “Rostdorstroy.” The company will be required to restore the road surface by December 31, 2026, and is expected to receive 16,738,500 hryvnias for this work.

According to the YouControl analytical system, Rostdorstroy isowned by Yuriy Schumacher, a member of the Odesa City Council,and businessman Yevgeny Konovalov. Among the founders is also the Austrian company “Yuttema AU GmbH” from Vienna. The company was founded in 2005 and specializes in the construction of roads and highways. The company has repeatedly won tenders without any competition. For example, in June, the Road Maintenance Department of the Odesa City Council conducted a procurement process to select a contractor to be paid for routine repairs to Odesa’s municipally owned street and road network.

The sole participant in the procurement process was the limited liability company “Rostdorstroy.” An agreement was signed with the company under which it will receive 15,832,900 hryvnias. By August 2025, the company had already been awarded a contract worth over 760 million hryvnias. In May of that same year, “Rostdorstroy” again won a tender without competition for 300 million hryvnias to maintain 689 km of state roads in the Mykolaiv region. At the same time, the firm received another contract in the Kherson region—for road repairs in the Beryslav district worth 160 million. After the contract was signed, auditors noticed signs of irregularities and began monitoring the procurement.

Кирило Бойко