The previous winner was rejected: Odesa will re-evaluate the 175 million tender

The Capital Construction Department of the Odesa City Council has re-announced a tender to select a company that will be paid more than UAH 175 million for the reconstruction of the Maternity Hospital No. 5 buildings.

This is stated in the Prozorro electronic procurement system, according to the Center for Public Investigations.

The new procurement is planned in the format of open bidding with special features. The expected cost of the procurement is still UAH 175 million 251.1 thousand.

This time, the auction is scheduled for August 12. The completion date is the same - December 31, 2025.

The results of the previous auction were canceled by the Territorial Department of the Bureau of Economic Security in Odesa Oblast. Its analysts found that the contractor had overstated its financial statements in order to participate in the tender procedure. The purpose of such actions, according to the analysts, was to artificially increase the company's financial capacity, as this is one of the qualification criteria provided for in the procurement requirements. The company also had no material and technical base and an insufficient number of employees with the appropriate qualifications, which indicates that it was unable to perform construction work on its own.

In addition, the company was registered in the territory not controlled by Ukraine.

The company in question is Donstroy Limited Liability Company, which won the tender.

The company's proposal was eventually rejected officially because it did not have time to eliminate inconsistencies in the documents.

But even before that, the department was trying to conduct this procurement. Thus, on May 22 , a tender was to be held with an expected purchase price of UAH 147 million 189.7 thousand.

However, the procurement was canceled due to the inability to eliminate the identified violations of public procurement legislation.

"Due to the impossibility of eliminating violations that arose due to the identified violations of the requirements of the legislation in the field of public procurement, namely the determination of the cost of works, the procurement for the subject: "Reconstruction of the buildings of the Municipal Non-Commercial Enterprise "Maternity Hospital No. 5" of the Odesa City Council at 28 Marshal Govorov Str., Odesa. Adjustments", to cancel," the department said.