Odesa Hospital Selected Equipment Suppliers Without an Auction

The municipal non-profit enterprise City Clinical Hospital No. 10 of the Odesa City Council has conducted a tender to select a supplier of medical equipment.

This is reported in the Prozorro electronic procurement system.

The procurement was conducted in the format of open bidding with peculiarities, and the only bidders were individual entrepreneurs Svitlana Baburova and Alla Kovalchuk. The former was the only bidder for lot No. 1, which includes the purchase of equipment for operating rooms and a laser lithotripsy system. She is expected to receive UAH 5 million 206.5 thousand.

The second entrepreneur won the right to sell endoscopic and endosurgical instruments and endoscopic imaging and endoscopic visualization systems to the hospital for UAH 1 million 615 thousand 925.

The equipment is expected to be delivered by December 31, 2024. The procurement was carried out in the format of an open tender with special conditions.

Open bidding with special conditions means that almost all terms are shorter than those in open bidding in accordance with 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, after the start of the full-scale invasion, 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.

Кирило Бойко