Odesa Hospital Set to Purchase Medicines Worth ₴34.75M via Fast-Track Tender

Odesa Regional Clinical Hospital, a municipal non-profit enterprise, has announced its intention to purchase various medicines for a total of UAH 34 million 754 thousand 998.

The relevant information was published in the electronic procurement system Prozorro.

The company plans to purchase bupivacaine, solution for injection, 5 mg/ml, 4 ml, 4 thousand 50 ampoules, 8 thousand ampoules of the same solution, 10 ml, 49 thousand 550 ampoules of lidocaine, solution for injection, 20 mg/ml, 2 ml, and other medicines - more than 50 items in total. All medicines should be sent to Izmail at 11 Portova Street, where the Danube Regional Hospital is located.

The procurement is planned in the format of an open tender with special conditions. Open bidding with peculiarities means that almost all terms are shorter than 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, 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, the municipal institution Odesa Regional Special Medical Supply Base conducted a procurement to select a supplier of a number of medical equipment. The only participant and, accordingly, the winner was the limited liability company Firm Blagovist.

Кирило Бойко