MP's company wins 16 million tender for road repairs in Odesa

The Road Maintenance Department of the Odesa City Council has conducted a procurement to select a company that will be paid for the routine maintenance of roadways and sidewalks of municipally owned streets and roads.

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

According to the system, the procurement was conducted in the format of an open tender with special conditions and the only participant was Rostdorstroy Limited Liability Company. The company will have to repair sections of 10 city streets with a total area of UAH 16 million 447 thousand 972 by December 31.

The final beneficiaries of Rostdorstroy LLC are currently Yuriy Shumacher, a deputy of the Odesa City Council and a representative of the Trust the Deeds party, and businessman Yevhen Konovalov.

Last year, about 500 private commercial companies received almost UAH 150.5 billion from the state. Among the top five is Rostdorstroy LLC of theRostdorstroy group, which received UAH 7.6 billion in public tenders. The total value of the company's winning tenders is almost UAH 470 billion. The group includes two other companies that, together with Rostdorstroy, have received UAH 8.8 billion in public funds.

In January, the Commercial Court of Odesa Oblast considered a lawsuit filed by the deputy head of the Odesa Oblast Prosecutor's Office against the Odesa Oblast Infrastructure Restoration and Development Service and Rostdorstroy.

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, the year before last, 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. The government temporarily canceled electronic auctions. Since then, tenders announced in Prozorro can be held without an auction.

Кирило Бойко