Restoration of the facade of a landmark building in the center of Odesa has risen in price by 7 million

The Capital Construction Department of the Odesa City Council has announced a new tender to select a contractor to be paid for repair and restoration work on the facade and roof of the building located at 15 Sofiyivska Street.

The relevant information is available in the Prozorro electronic procurement system.

The fact is that the restoration project has been adjusted and now they expect to find a company that will be paid UAH 7 million 546.5 thousand under the new tender.

The building is an architectural and urban planning monument of local significance - it is a tenement house of Skarzhynskyi, which was built in the second half of the nineteenth century according to his own design. On the facade of the house you can see the coat of arms with a unicorn. The entranceway has a painting on the ceiling. Today it is a residential building with administrative premises.

The auction is scheduled for August 26, and the procurement is planned to be conducted in the format of an open tender with special features. The works are to be completed by December 31, 2024.

It should be noted that in 2021, the department held a tender to select a contractor to carry out the repairs.

Two companies took part in the tender: SK-Omega Limited Liability Company and Eurobud Integral Limited Liability Company.

The winner was SK-Omega, which agreed to work for 18 million 100.5 thousand hryvnias. However, the company received UAH 16 million 613 thousand 180 and the contract was terminated.

Open bidding with peculiarities implies 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.

However, after the beginning of the full-scale aggression of the Russian Federation in 2022, 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.