In Odesa region, a contractor was selected without an auction in a 75 million tender

The Department of Education, Youth and Sports of the Vyzyr Village Council of Odesa Oblast has announced a tender to select a company that will be paid to build a shelter with protective properties of a radiation shelter in the Sonechko kindergarten.

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

The kindergarten is located in the village of Pershotravneve. The auction is scheduled for November 4 in the format of open bidding with the participation of one company - Alan LTD Limited Liability Company.

The company expects to receive UAH 75 million 189.6 thousand in the event of a deal, and the work will have to be completed by September 1, 2027.

According to the YouControl service, Alan LTD was registered in 2010 in Kryzhanivka, Lyman district.

Open bidding with peculiarities implies 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 beginning of the full-scale aggression of the Russian Federation in 2022, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine temporarily changed the rules for conducting tenders 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.

At the end of September, the Vyzyr village council in Odesa region, instead of supplementing the information in the terms of reference for the overhaul of the shelter in Pershotravneve village, advised a possible bidder to visit the construction site and make calculations themselves.

The CPR notes that before the start of the tender, at the stage of submitting documents, a potential participant asked the customer to "provide a nomenclature (list) of materials and equipment, a list of resources, or approved project documentation" because this was not in the terms of reference.