Hazardous Tree Removal Tender Awarded for ₴2M at Four City Cemeteries

The municipal enterprise Specialized Enterprise for Communal Services has conducted a tender to select a company that will be paid for the removal of hazardous trees in four city cemeteries.

The relevant information was published in the Prozorro electronic procurement system.

These are: Novomorsk Cemetery, Northern Cemetery, Dmitry Donskoy Cemetery, and Latovskoye Cemetery.

A dry tree is a tree that has stopped physiological development, its trunk and crown are dead. An emergency tree is a tree that can pose a threat to the life and health of pedestrians, vehicles, damage power lines, buildings and structures, or is in a damaged condition due to snowfall, wind breakage, hurricane and other natural disasters or in the presence of a rotten trunk core, significant dryness, or reaching the age limit. Tree removal involves: removing the tree, straightening the trunk, uprooting stumps, and removing wood and branches. The removal of trees and stumps is carried out both manually and with the use of machines and mechanisms.

The only participant and, accordingly, the winner was Redwood-Bud Limited Liability Company, which is counting on UAH 2 million 20 thousand. According to the YouControl service, the company was registered in 2024 in Odesa. The owner is Anatoliy Holub from Kyiv.

Open bidding with special features means that almost all terms are shorter than in open bidding under the Law on Public Procurement. That is, 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, the year before last, 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. The government temporarily canceled electronic auctions. Since then, tenders announced in Prozorro can be held without an auction.

Кирило Бойко