Odesa Laboratory Selected a Supplier of Medical Equipment Without an Auction

The Odesa Regional State Laboratory of the State Service of Ukraine for Food Safety and Consumer Protection has selected a company to supply an atomic absorption spectrometer for UAH 7 million 404.9 thousand.

The relevant information was published in the Prozorro electronic procurement system, according to the Center for Public Investigations.

The procurement was conducted in the format of an open tender with special conditions, and the Limited Liability Company "Integrated Medical Group" had no competitors.

The company must provide one set of equipment by December 25. According to the YouControl service, the company was registered in 2013. The owner is Fedir Kirpenko from Kyiv.

Open bidding with special features 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.

According to the Ministry of Economy, from December 14 to December 20, 2022, 306 successful Prozorro tenders out of 347 were completed with one participant. That is, almost 90% of procurements during this period were made with a single bidder.

However, after the beginning of 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.