Odesa Hospital Awards ₴18.4M Food Contract to Fabrika Smaku for Patients

The municipal non-profit enterprise Children's City Clinical Hospital No. 3 in Odesa has held a procurement to select a company that will be paid to provide meals for patients.

The announcement was published in the public procurement system Prozorro.

The only bidder was Fabrika Smaku, a limited liability company, which is expected to pay UAH 18 million 443 thousand.

After signing the contract, the company will have to provide the hospital with these funds by the end of the year:

• 160 sets of food for children under the age of one year. We are talking about complementary foods.
• 8 thousand meals for children aged 1 to 3 years - four meals per person per day.
• 10 thousand food packages for children aged 3 to 6 years - sets of four meals per person per day.
• 10 thousand food packages for children aged 7 to 10 years - four meals a day for one person.
• 15.3 thousand food packages for children aged 11 to 18 years - four meals a day for one person.
• 8 thousand food packages for mothers who are breastfeeding and caring for a child in a hospital - four meals a day for one person.
• 13.7 thousand meals for mothers or other family members who are hospitalized with sick children under the age of 6 and who are hospitalized to care for seriously ill children over the age of 6 - one meal per person per day.

According to the YouControl service, Fabryka Smaku was registered in May 2015 with a registered capital of UAH 1,000, and two months later it received an order to supply food to hospitals in Odesa. The director and owner of the company is Igor Levinzon.

In December 2023, Nikcenter reported that Odesa medical institutions sometimes pay twice as much for food as in other cities. And the "fake" competitors of the "Fabrika Smaku" in tenders allegedly turned out to be its employees.

In September 2022, the Center for Public Investigations analyzed the composition of companies participating in tenders for the right to feed Odesa schoolchildren and identified the main players in this market in Odesa. The experts identified Fabrika Smaku LLC as one of the leaders.

Кирило Бойко