Seven Bids for a Single Clinic: How Money Was Spent in the Kherson Region

In the Kherson region, 15 procurement tenders related to medical facilities were announced between March 2025 and July 2026, totaling 192.1 million hryvnias. The funds were allocated primarily for the reconstruction and construction of four rural outpatient clinics.

This is according to an analysis by the Center for Public Investigations, which examined medical procurements in the Odesa, Mykolaiv, and Kherson regions.

The largest number of procurements was carried out by the Department of Territorial Development of the Kherson Regional State Administration. Its 15 lots, totaling 192.1 million hryvnias, were for general practice clinics—family medicine clinics—in Davydivyi Brod, Kochubeivka, Muzykovka, and Vysokopillia.

The clinic in Davydiv Brod—seven tenders

The Center for Public Reforms cites the story of the new clinic in Davydiv Brod as the most telling example.

The first construction tender, valued at 15.3 million hryvnias, failed to take place twice—in March and April 2025. Only the third attempt, announced on May 15, resulted in the selection of a winner: Novi Teplotekhnologii LLC.

Following this, technical and design supervision for the construction was commissioned. In late December 2025, another tender was issued for project revisions worth 3.59 million hryvnias. It was again awarded to New Heat Technologies LLC.

In April 2026, a virtually identical contract worth 3.52 million hryvnias was re-announced, and the same company was once again declared the winner. Both phases were accompanied by repeat technical supervision contracts, each worth 42,100 hryvnias.

As a result, at least 22.7 million hryvnias were spent on the construction of a single outpatient clinic in Davydiv Brod, and the work and related services were distributed among a virtually unchanged group of contractors. In total, the project spanned seven separate tenders.

Outpatient Clinic in Vysokopil — 137 million

The most expensive project in the analyzed dataset was the renovation of the Vysokopil Town Council’s administrative building into a clinic at 112 Vyzvolyteliv Street.

The construction work itself was budgeted at 135.2 million hryvnias. The contract was awarded to Global Build Engineering LLC.

An additional 1.46 million hryvnias were allocated for technical supervision, and 360,000 hryvnias for design supervision. Thus, the total cost of the project is approximately 137 million hryvnias, or nearly three-quarters of the total procurement portfolio of the Department of Territorial Development of the Kherson Regional State Administration.

Kochubeivka and Muzykovka Are Still Only in the Design Phase

Two more outpatient clinics—in Kochubeivka and Muzykovka—have not yet moved on to large-scale construction.

The design of the clinic in Kochubeivka is budgeted at 637,000 hryvnias, and that in Muzykovka at 588,000 hryvnias. According to the Center for Policy Research, the actual construction of these facilities has yet to begin.

What Was Purchased in Kherson

At the Kherson City Council level, spending on healthcare was significantly more modest.

In 2026, the Kherson City Council’s Capital Construction Department announced only one medical procurement lot — revisions to the project documentation for the construction of a dual-purpose protective structure in the basement of the therapeutic wing of the A. and O. Tropin Kherson City Clinical Hospital. The cost was 99,900 hryvnias.

The Health Department of the Kherson City Council conducted three procurements totaling 1.2 million hryvnias. The bulk of this amount went toward the purchase of a Renault Duster for 1.17 million hryvnias. They also purchased auto liability insurance and gasoline.

At the same time, the Health Department of the Kherson Regional State Administration did not conduct any procurement of its own in 2026.

Overall, the Center for Policy and Reform notes that the situation with the outpatient clinic in Davydiv Brody is the most telling example in the Kherson region: its reconstruction dragged on for more than a year and required seven separate tenders, with the same contractor repeatedly being awarded portions of the work.

Read the full CPR analysis, “Healthcare Worth Billions: How Medical Equipment Was Purchased and Hospitals Were Renovated in Odesa, Mykolaiv, and Kherson,” on the website.

Андрій Колісніченко