Jewish Hospital Selects Newcomer Company to Supply Equipment Worth 14 Million without an Auction

The municipal non-profit enterprise City Clinical Hospital No. 1 in Odesa, better known in the city as the Jewish Hospital, has conducted a procurement to select a company from which it will purchase a mammography inpatient digital X-ray system.

The relevant information is available in the Prozorro electronic procurement system.

The procurement was conducted in the format of open bidding with special features, and the only participant was Lixnab Limited Liability Company, registered in Kyiv in 2022. According to the YouControl service, the owner of the company is Oleh Shmorgun from Kyiv.

If the deal is concluded, the company will have to provide the hospital with equipment by December 31, and expects to receive UAH 14.6 million for it.

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.

For example, the public utility company City Roads held a tender to select a company to be paid for restoring the road surface after emergency repairs to heating networks in Odesa. The tender with an expected procurement value of UAH 34 million 666.3 thousand was held on November 12 in the format of an open tender with special conditions. The winning company will have to work until December 31, 2024. It was the only bidder, Rostdorstroy Limited Liability Company. The company expects to receive UAH 34 million 579.3 thousand if the deal is concluded.

Кирило Бойко