Kyiv and Odesa Select Contractors for ₴6.58M Road Maintenance Deals

The municipal enterprise City Roads has held two auctions to select contractors to pay for the maintenance of the street and road network in Kyiv and Khadzhibey districts of Odesa.

The announcements were published in the Prozorro electronic procurement system.

In Kyiv district, limited liability companies Paritetbudinvest Construction Firm and DSK Avtoshlyakh competed for the right to maintain 131 kilometers of roads. Paritetbudinvest was chosen as the winner. The company agreed to work for UAH 6 million 580.8 thousand. For this money, if the deal is concluded, the company will have to maintain the district's roads until July 31, 2025.

According to the YouControl service, Paritetbudinvest LLC was registered in 2019 in Chornomorsk. The owners are Artem Sobolev from Vinnytsia region and Arkadiy Ilyashchuk from Chornomorsk.

In 2020, the publication USI, citing the website "Posipaky," named the latter as an assistant to Valentyn Gapunich, a deputy of the Odesa City Council from the party "Trust the Deeds."

As for DSK Avtoshlyakh LLC, it also competed for the maintenance of 184 kilometers of roads in Khadzhybey district, but lost to Shlyakhobudivelnyk Limited Liability Company, which agreed to work for UAH 7 million 440 thousand. For this money, the company will maintain the roads, if the agreement is concluded, also until July 31.

Earlier, the municipal enterprise "City Roads" held a tender to select contractors who will be paid for the maintenance of the street and road network of Peresypskyi and Prymorskyi districts of Odesa. In the first case, DSK Avtoshlyakh LLC won the tender and signed a contract for UAH 7 million 380.4 thousand, but in the case of Prymorskyi district, the tender was canceled twice. For the first time, the auction was not even held due to the inability to eliminate the identified violations of public procurement legislation, and for the second time, the auction was held with the participation of three limited liability companies: "Paritetbudinvest Construction Company, European Roads of Ukraine, and DSK Avtoshlyakh. Paritetbudinvest LLC was chosen as the winner, offering UAH 5 million 70.4 thousand.

But later, the results of the procurement were canceled due to the inability to eliminate violations that arose due to the identified violations of the requirements of the legislation in the field of public procurement, namely, the technical indicators for the length of the street and road network were not immediately fully defined in the terms of reference of the tender documentation and the need to repair inter-quarter passages was not taken into account, which in turn led to an incorrect determination of the expected cost of the procurement item in the announcement of the procurement procedure.

The cost was recalculated and increased from the expected UAH 5 million 999 thousand to UAH 2 million, and only one company participated in the new tender - European Roads of Ukraine LLC, with which it was planned to conclude an agreement for UAH 7 million 760 thousand. The company was registered in 2016 in Odesa. The owner is Denys Mykhailiuk.

Кирило Бойко