Kherson City Council Awards ₴2.4M Shelter Maintenance Contracts

The Department of Civil Protection of Kherson City Council awarded contracts for the maintenance of the simplest shelter for UAH 2.4 million without an auction.

According to the Center for Public Investigations, the city council directly signed a contract with entrepreneur Oleksandr Vasyliev. The latter has until April 10, 2025, to clean up the shelter, set up water supply and sewage, arrange a sanitary area, install benches, etc.

Vasyliev registered his business in September 2023 in Kyiv. He immediately received a contract from the city council's civil protection department to repair the shelter worth UAH 2.7 million. In April 2024, Vasyliev moved his business to Kherson. And in almost a year and a half, he has already signed 8 contracts worth UAH 16.3 million. And he signed all of these contracts with the civil protection department of the city council.

Earlier, the Civil Protection Department of the Kherson City Council signed a number of contracts totaling UAH 18.69 million within two days. All these contracts were distributed without using the electronic procurement system and without an open tender.

Prior to that, the local authorities in Kherson signed four contracts for the maintenance of simple shelters for collective protection of the population. The total amount of the contracts is almost UAH 10 million, and all contracts were awarded to one company from Kyiv region - Clarus LLC.

In addition, at the end of 2024, a tender was held for the construction of a radiation shelteron the territory of the Arkhangelsk Professional Agricultural Lyceum in Beryslav district, Kherson region. As a result of the bidding, the contract was concluded with the odious Construction-TM LLC.

According to Oleksandr Prokudin, Head of the JMA, 11 protective structures are planned to be completed this year, and 5 more are to be built from scratch.

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