Odesa decided to spend 34 million to restore roads after repairing heating networks

The City Roads utility company has announced a tender to select a company to be paid to restore the road surface after emergency repairs to heating networks in Odesa.

This is stated in the electronic procurement system Prozorro, according to the Center for Public Investigations.

According to the system, the auction with an expected purchase price of UAH 34 million 666.3 thousand is to be 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.

Open bidding with special conditions 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.

For example, in October , Rostdorstroy, a company owned by a member of the Odesa City Council, was awarded another contract for road and sidewalk repairs in Odesa without an auction. It will be paid more than 16 million from the budget. The customer was the Road Maintenance Department of the Odesa City Council. The open bidding with special features was held on October 8 with the only participant who registered in the system, and he became the winner.

In January, the Municipal Enterprise "City Roads " chose Rostdorstroy Limited Liability Company as the contractor to restore the road surface after emergency repairs of heating networks in Odesa. According to the system, the procurement was conducted in the format of open bidding with the peculiarity that the company had no competitors. The company has to restore roads after repairing heating networks within a year - until December 31, 2024 - and will receive UAH 27 million 913.2 thousand for this.

Кирило Бойко