Odesa District Village Council Awards ₴1.5M Outdoor Lighting Contract

Dalnytsia village council of Odesa district, Odesa region, has held a tender to select a company to pay UAH 1.5 million for the maintenance of outdoor lighting networks.

This is reported in the Prozorro electronic procurement system.

It is about lighting in eight villages: Dalnyk, Roksolany, Baraboy, Hrybivka, Dobro Oleksandrivka, Sanzhyka, Marianivka and Novohradivka. The procurement was conducted in the format of an open tender with special conditions, and the only participant was Mykola Mandryko, an individual entrepreneur. This entrepreneur was registered in 2018 in the village of Mayory, Odesa district.

The entrepreneur will have to maintain the lighting until December 31. Open bidding with special features means that almost all terms are shorter than in open bidding under the Law on Public Procurement. That is, 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 full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation, 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 Tairova village council in Odesa region held a procurement to select a contractor to be paid for the construction of a water supply system on Shevchenko and Nadiya streets in the village of Sukhyi Lyman in Odesa region. The only bidder was Grado-Stroy Construction Company, a limited liability company.

The company expects to receive UAH 15 million 231.5 thousand for this construction, and the work should be completed by May 31, 2025.

Кирило Бойко