Usatove village decided to pay one and a half million to the breadwinner of Odesa schoolchildren

The Usativ village council of Odesa district conducted a procurement for catering services for pupils of general secondary education institutions and chose Fabryka Smaku Limited Liability Company.

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

The company was the only participant in the procurement, which was conducted in the format of open bidding with special conditions.

Open bidding with special conditions 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 start of the full-scale invasion, 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.

According to the YouControl service, Fabrika Smaku LLC was registered in 2015. The owners are Ihor Levinson and Olga Bogolyubova.

It should be noted that the Centers for Finance and Economic Activity and educational institutions of four districts of Odesa held tenders to select companies that will supply food for schoolchildren. In particular, Prymorskyi and Peresypskyi districts chose Fabrika Smaku LLC, and Kyivskyi and Khadzhybeyskyi districts chose Ration Group, a private enterprise.

In September 2022, the Center for Public Investigations analyzed the composition of companies participating in tenders for the right to feed Odesa schoolchildren and identified the main players in this market in Odesa. The experts identified Fabrika Smaku LLC as one of the leaders.

Instead, Ratsiy Group PE was included in the second group of caterers, which received fewer tenders than Fabryka Smaku LLC and other leaders.

The journalists emphasized that Ration Group and Proviant Service were the successors of Odesa-based Olympia Service, owned by Maksym Yatsenko and Tetiana Tarasiuk. Before them, Olympia Service belonged to Svitlana Spivak, the mother of politician Dmytro Spivak.

Кирило Бойко