Chornomorsk Council Awards ₴24M Tender for Road Maintenance Services

The Department of Public Utilities and Improvement of the Chornomorsk City Council of Odesa District held a tender to select a contractor who will be paid more than 24 million for the maintenance of the street and road network in Chornomorsk.

This is stated in the Prozorro electronic procurement system, according to the Center for Public Investigations.

The contractor will have to maintain streets, roads, safety lanes, roadsides, wastelands, and public places until December 31, 2025:

• 149 thousand 90 square meters of road cleaning area;
• 55,118 square meters of grass cutting on roadsides;
• 55 thousand 118 square meters of roadside cleaning;
• 160 kilometers of winter road maintenance.

The procurement was conducted in the format of an open tender with special features, and Avtodor Limited Liability Company was the only participant.

According to the YouControl service, the LLC was registered in 1993. The ultimate beneficiaries are Oleh and Oleksandr Honcharenko, as well as Arkadii Hapunich. Oleh Honcharenko was a deputy of the Chornomorsk City Council.

In October 2023, the Department for the Maintenance of Communal Property of the Dachne Village Council of Odesa District conducted a procurement to select a contractor to be paid for the overhaul of the road surface of Tsentralna Street in the village of Yelyzavetivka and the overhaul of the road surface of Myru Street in Dachne.

In the first case, the amount of money involved was UAH 10 million 5.8 thousand, and in the second case, UAH 15 million 728.6 thousand. In both cases, Avtodor Limited Liability Company had no competitors.

Open bidding with special features means that almost all terms are shorter than in open bidding under the Law on Public Procurement. This means that this procurement is much faster than open tenders.

The period for submitting proposals is seven calendar days, and the period for challenging qualifications is five calendar days.

Often, there is no auction during such tenders, so the participant has no competitors.

However, after the start of the full-scale invasion, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine temporarily changed the rules of bidding for the period of martial law in Ukraine and within 90 days from the date of its termination or cancellation.

Thus, the government temporarily canceled electronic auctions. Since then, tenders announced in Prozorro can be held without an auction.

Кирило Бойко