In Odesa, they started to choose breadwinners for schoolchildren

The Center for Financing and Economic Activity of Educational Institutions of Peresypskyi District of Odesa has conducted a procurement to select a company that will be paid for organizing meals for students of general secondary education institutions in the district.

This was reported in the Prozorro electronic procurement system.

The procurement was conducted in the format of open bidding with special features, and the only participant was Fabrika Smaku Limited Liability Company. If the deal is concluded, the company will have to organize meals for 6,976 students of 26 lyceums and gymnasiums in the district.

It will include:

• Breakfast for students in grades 1-4
• Lunch for students in grades 1-4
• Breakfast for students of the privileged contingent in grades 5-11
• Lunch for pupils of the privileged contingent in grades 5-11
• Meals for students in grades 1-4 of general secondary education institutions who need gluten-free and lactose-free meals for medical reasons.

The company will have to organize meals until December 31, 2025. For this, the company expects to receive UAH 32 million 813.7 thousand.

A similar procurement was conducted by the Center for Financing and Economic Activity of Educational Institutions in Prymorskyi District to select a company that will feed 250 students of Gymnasium No. 26. This procurement was also won by Fabrika Smaku LLC and the company expects to receive UAH 1 million 556.3 thousand.

According to the YouControl service, Fabrika Smaku was registered in May 2015 with a registered capital of UAH 1,000, and two months later it received an order to supply food to hospitals in Odesa. The director and owner of the company is Ihor Levinson.

In September 2022, the Center for Public Investigations analyzed the composition of companies participating in tenders for the right to feed Odesa schoolchildren and identified the main players in this market in Odesa. The experts identified Fabrika Smaku LLC as one of the leaders.

In August 2025, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine decided to allocate UAH 779.8 million to provide free meals to primary school students across the country, as well as to organize meals for students in grades 5-11 in general secondary education institutions in Dnipropetrovs'k, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Mykolaiv, Odesa, Sumy, Kharkiv, Kherson, and Chernihiv regions.

Кирило Бойко