Security Police Receive 1.5 Million Dollar Contract from Mykolaiv Museum Without Tender

The Mykolaiv Regional Art Museum named after V. Vereshchagin has signed a contract with the Regional Police Department for the protection of the museum's facilities in Mykolaiv and its branch in Ochakiv for UAH 1.5 million under a non-tender procedure.

The Center for Public Investigations learned about this from the electronic procurement platform Prozorro.

The security services include monitoring of museum facilities by means of a centralized monitoring station (CMS) with security throughout 2025.

The contract locations are the museum in Mykolaiv at 47 Velyka Morska Street and the R.G. Sudkovsky Museum in Ochakiv. The agreement was signed on January 20, and the procurement was made without the use of an electronic system.

The contract amount was UAH 1 million 570 thousand.

Meanwhile, antitrust authorities found signs of collusion in a tender for the purchase of alarm devices by the Mykolaiv Oblast Security Police Department.

Kherson recently signed an agreement to protect an art museum that was looted by Russians during the city's occupation.

The agreement was signed with the Department of Security Police in Kherson region. The museum received services for the protection of premises and protection against potential threats for the period from January 1 to December 31, 2025. The procurement was also conducted without the use of an electronic system. The total contract amount was UAH 963,600.

In addition, the territorial department of the Bureau of Economic Security in Odesa region conducted a procurement to find a company to provide it with security services and measures to protect these premises. The only bidder was the Department of Security Police in Odesa Oblast, which agreed to work for UAH 2 million 466,400. The tender was held in the format of an open tender with special conditions.

Андрій Колісніченко