Odesa Medical Supply Base Selects Blagovist as Sole Supplier for Equipment

The municipal institution Odesa Regional Special Medical Supply Base has conducted a tender to select a supplier of a range of medical equipment.

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

The items in question are: a traction trainer for back rehabilitation, a treadmill set with pneumatic support, and a mechanical trainer for increasing neck muscle flexibility. The only participant and, accordingly, the winner was Blagovist Firm, a limited liability company.

According to the YouControl service, the company was registered in Kyiv in 2020. The owners are Mykola Shchyruk and Mykola Bezzubenko from Kyiv.

The procurement was conducted in the format of open bidding with special conditions. Open bidding with special conditions means that almost all terms are shorter than those of 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 held a tender to select a supplier of medicines. It was about 5 items of laboratory reagents totaling UAH 12 million 734.2 thousand. The procurement was conducted in the format of an open tender with peculiarities and one participant - KhLR Limited Liability Company.

Кирило Бойко